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1 - 26 of 26 Interesting & Fun 12th of December Facts: |
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| 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. |
| 1531 - Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego in Mexico City. |
| 1719 - The Boston Gazette is published for the first time. |
| 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant - A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet. |
| 1787 - Pennsylvania becomes the 2nd state to ratify the United States Constitution. |
| 1862 - USS Cairo sunk on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine. |
| 1870 - Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first black U.S. congressman. |
| 1897 - Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, is inaugurated. |
| 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. |
| 1915 - President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, reinstates the monarchy and proclaims himself Emperor of China. |
| 1917 - In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys. |
| 1925 - The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia. |
| 1937 - Panay incident: Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China. |
| 1940 - Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid. |
| 1941 - World War II: Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan. |
| 1942 - A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people. |
| 1946 - A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people. |
| 1948 - Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre - 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village. |
| 1950 - Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services. |
| 1963 - Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 1964 - Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya. |
| 1982 - Women's peace protest at Greenham Common - 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km (9 mi) perimeter fence. |
| 1990 - Pakistan became the 37th country in the world to send an expedition to Antarctica. |
| 1996 - Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt. |
| 2000 - The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore |
| 2003 - Paul Martin, Jr. is sworn-in as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada. |
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