Historical Events in December, Month of December Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 4, 1978 | Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor. |
| December 21, 1844 | The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. |
| December 22, 1997 | Somali Civil War: Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991. |
| December 25, 1559 | Pope Pius IV is elected, four months after his predecessor's death. |
| December 30, 1916 | Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later. |
| December 22, 1864 | American Civil War: Savannah, Georgia, falls to the Union's Army of the Tennessee, and General Sherman tells President Abraham Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah". |
| December 13, 1939 | The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of World War II. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles and HMS Exeter.[13] |
| December 23, 1979 | Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital. |
| December 4, 963 | The lay papal protonotary is elected pope and takes the name Leo VIII, being consecrated on 6 December after ordination. |
| December 24, 1865 | Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan. |
| December 5, 1936 | The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR. |
| December 5, 1945 | Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle. |
| December 15, 1167 | Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion. |
| December 21, 1883 | The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed. |
| December 5, 1560 | Thirteen-year-old Charles IX becomes king of France, with Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici as regent. |
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