Historical Events in December, Month of December Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 5, 1964 | Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response. |
| December 15, 1941 | The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv. |
| December 16, 2013 | A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. |
| December 1, 1989 | Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state. |
| December 22, 1942 | World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. |
| December 21, 1620 | Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land near what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
| December 16, 2022 | A landslide occurs at a camp at an organic farm near the town of Batang Kali in Selangor, Malaysia, trapping 92 people and killing 31.[13] |
| December 15, 1467 | Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia. |
| December 18, 2006 | The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced. |
| December 5, 1945 | Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle. |
| December 27, 537 | The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated. |
| December 4, 1984 | Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar. |
| December 24, 1942 | World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria. |
| December 19, 1929 | The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India). |
| December 11, 1941 | World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island. |
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