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12/1
World AIDS Day (12/1)

12/1
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat, 1955 (12/1)

12/2
Napoleon is crowned emperor of France, 1804 (12/2)

12/2
The​ Monroe Doctrine​ is issued, 1823 (12/2)

12/2
The United Arab Emirates is formed, 1971 (12/2)

12/2
Birthday: Georges Seurat, 1859 (12/2)

12/3
Illinois becomes the 21st state, 1818 (12/3)

12/3
Frederick Douglass publishes The North Star, 1847 (12/3)

12/3
Deadly gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, 1984 (12/3)

12/3
Birthday: Joseph Conrad, 1857 (12/3)

12/4
James Monroe is elected 5th U.S. President, 1816 (12/4)

12/5
Birthday: Walt Disney, 1901 (12/5)

12/5
Birthday: Martin Van Buren, 1782 (12/5)

12/5
Prohibition ends with repeal of 18th Amendment, 1933 (12/5)

12/6
The Washington Monument is completed, 1884 (12/6)

12/7
Hanukkah 2023 (12/7)

12/7
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, 1941 (12/7)

12/8
John Lennon assassinated in New York City, 1980 (12/8)

12/8
Birthday: Eli Whitney, 1765 (12/8)

12/8
John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, dies, 2016 (12/8)

12/8
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed into law, 1993 (12/8)

12/8
Birthday: Diego Rivera, 1886 (12/8)

12/9
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" is published, 1854 (12/9)

12/10
Mississippi becomes the 20th state, 1817 (12/10)

12/10
Birthday: Emily Dickinson, 1830 (12/10)

12/10
Human Rights Day (12/10)

12/11
Germany & Italy declare war on the U.S., 1941 (12/11)

12/11
Indiana becomes the 19th state, 1816 (12/11)

12/11
King Edward VIII abdicates the throne of England to marry Wallis Simpson, 1936 (12/11)

12/12
Birthday: John Jay, 1745 (12/12)

12/12
Birthday: Frank Sinatra, 1915 (12/12)

12/13
Sir Francis Drake sets sail for the New World, 1577 (12/13)

12/13
Birthday: Mary Todd Lincoln, 1818 (12/13)

12/13
Chinese city of Nanking is captured by Japanese Army, 1937 (12/13)

12/14
George Washington dies at the age of 67, 1799 (12/14)

12/14
Alabama becomes the 22nd state, 1819 (12/14)

12/14
Birthday: Nostradamus, 1503 (12/14)

12/15
U.S. Bill of Rights ratified, 1791 (12/15)

12/15
Birthday: Gustave Eiffel, 1832 (12/15)

12/16
The Boston Tea Party, 1773 (12/16)

12/16
The Battle of the Bulge begins, 1944 (12/16)

12/16
Birthday: Ludwig Van Beethoven, 1770 (12/16)

12/16
Oliver Cromwell declared Lord Protector of England, 1653 (12/16)

12/16
Birthday: Jane Austen, 1775 (12/16)

12/17
The Wright Brothers' 1st successful powered flight, 1903 (12/17)

12/17
Birthday: Pope Francis, 1936 (12/17)

12/18
13th Amendment ratified, ending U.S. slavery, 1865 (12/18)

12/19
Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol, 1843 (12/19)

12/19
President Clinton impeached by the House, 1998 (12/19)

12/20
The Louisiana Purchase is completed, 1803 (12/20)

12/20
South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union, 1860 (12/20)

12/21
Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium, 1898 (12/21)

12/21
Lockerbie Bombing, 1988 (12/21)

12/21
Winter begins in the Northern Hemisphere (12/21)

12/23
Benedict Arnold is court-marshaled for treason, 1779 (12/23)

12/23
Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act, 1913 (12/23)

12/23
Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear during a fit of depression, 1888 (12/23)

12/23
Birthday: Joseph Smith, Mormon prophet, 1805 (12/23)

12/24
Birthday: Howard Hughes, 1905 (12/24)

12/25
Christmas Day (12/25)

12/25
Washington and troops cross the Delaware River, 1776 (12/25)

12/25
Birthday: Humphrey Bogart, 1899 (12/25)

12/26
Kwanzaa (12/26)

12/27
Birthday: Louis Pasteur, 1822 (12/27)

12/28
Iowa becomes the 29th state, 1846 (12/28)

12/28
Birthday: Woodrow Wilson, 1856 (12/28)

12/29
Texas becomes the 28th state, 1845 (12/29)

12/29
Birthday: Andrew Johnson, 1808 (12/29)

12/30
Birthday: Rudyard Kipling, 1865 (12/30)

12/30
Huston Smith, renowned scholar of world religions, dies, 2016 (12/30)

12/31
New Year's Eve (12/31)

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