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| 1603 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I. |
| 1790 - Storm and capture Russian armies And. Century of Suvorov of a Turkish fortress Izmail. |
| 1807 - The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson. |
| 1809 - The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress. |
| 1851 - The first freight train is operated in Roorkee in India. |
| 1864 - Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea". |
| 1885 - Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan. |
| 1894 - The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds. |
| 1937 - The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City. |
| 1944 - German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium. See Battle of the Bulge. |
| 1944 - Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Vietnam. |
| 1947 - The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution. |
| 1965 - In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit. |
| 1984 - Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American men on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City. |
| 1988 - Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated. |
| 1999 - The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives (see related event on December 21, 1999). |
| 2001 - Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. |
| 2001 - Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63. |
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