Historical Events in December, Month of December Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 2, 1980 | Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad. |
| December 31, 1942 | World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later |
| December 21, 1995 | The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. |
| December 14, 1962 | NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. |
| December 25, 508 | Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius. |
| December 8, 1943 | World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta. |
| December 14, 1955 | Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109. |
| December 13, 1988 | PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York. |
| December 29, 1890 | On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment. |
| December 17, 1989 | The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". |
| December 1, 1988 | Benazir Bhutto, is named as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first female leader to lead a muslim nation. |
| December 14, 1918 | Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. |
| December 14, 2004 | The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France. |
| December 21, 1124 | Pope Honorius II is consecrated, having been elected after the controversial dethroning of Pope Celestine II. |
| December 13, 1818 | Cyril VI of Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical Patriarch under pressure from the Ottoman Empire. |
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