Historical Events in December, Month of December Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 10, 1541 | Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. |
| December 11, 1998 | Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation. |
| December 4, 1619 | Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." |
| December 8, 1922 | Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army. |
| December 10, 1864 | American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia. |
| December 31, 1968 | The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world. |
| December 9, 1935 | Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder. |
| December 27, 1966 | The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. |
| December 18, 2002 | California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier. |
| December 15, 1961 | Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization. |
| December 5, 1776 | Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary. |
| December 7, 2005 | Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. |
| December 30, 1816 | The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed. |
| December 24, 1994 | Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of three days three passengers are killed, as are all four terrorists. |
| December 26, 2004 | The 9.1–9.3 Mw Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis, it affected coastal and partially mainland areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is estimated at 227,898. |
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