Friday, December 11, 2020. 346th day of the year. There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year.
? HISTORICAL EVENTS?
220 - The Han emperor Xian Han ends the dynasty and is forced to abdicate by Cao Cao, son of Cao Cao.
361 - Julian enters Constantinople as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
861 - Assassination of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish Guards who ascended the throne al-Muntasir. The beginning of "Anarchy in Samarra".
969 - Byzantine Emperor Nicepheros II Focas is assassinated by his wife Theophanes and his lover, later Emperor Tsimiskes II.
1282 - Battle of the Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last born prince of Wales, is assassinated in Cilmeri, near Built-Wales, in the middle of Wales.
1602 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his father-in-law, an unexpected attack by forces under the command of the Spanish Philip III, are repulsed by the citizens of Geneva. (Celebrated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade.
1675 - Antonio de Vea's expedition enters Lake San Rafael in western Patagonia.
1688 - A glorious revolution: James II of England throws the seal of the Great Coast into the River Thames as he tries to flee to France.
1792 - French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is tried for treason by the National Convention.
1815 - The U.S. Senate forms an elected finance committee and a single national currency, the former representative of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.
1816 - Indiana becomes the 19th state of the United States.
1868 - Paraguay War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguay at the Battle of Avay.
1899 - Battle of Boers II: At the Battle of Magersfontein, the Burmese, led by General Piet Kronye, are defeated by the forces of the British Empire at the behest of Lord Metuen, who is trying to escape the siege of Kimberly.
1905 - A workers' uprising in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), forms the Shuliavka Republic.
1907 - New Zealand's parliament buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
1917 - World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
1920 - Irish Independence War: Recently, in retaliation for an IRA ambush, British forces set fire to many buildings in Cork. Many civilians are reported to have been beaten, shot, kidnapped and verbally abused by British forces.
1925 - The Pope's encyclopedia Quas primas celebrates the Feast of Christ.
1927 - Guangzhou Uprising: The Communist Red Guards start a revolt in Guangzhou, China, occupy a large part of the city, and declare the formation of the Guangzhou Soviet.
1931 - Westminster Statute 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Dominions - Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland.
1934 - Bill Wilson, one of the founders of Anonymous Alcoholics, drinks his last drink and begins treatment for the last time.
1936 - Abdel Crisis: Edward VIII becomes King of Great Britain and relinquishes his position as Dominion and Emperor of India.
1937 - Second Italian-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
1941 - World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following an attack on Pearl Harbor after the Americans declare war on the Japanese Empire. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
1941 - World War II: Poland declares war on the Japanese Empire.
1941 - World War II: The Japanese Imperial Navy loses its ground ships for the first time during a battle on Wake Island.
1946 - The United Nations International Fund for Emergency Situations (UNICEF) is established.
1948 - Arab-Israeli War: The United Nations adopts General Assembly Resolution 194 and establishes a conciliation commission to mediate the conflict.
1958 - France's Upper Volta and France's Dahomey take self-government from France, becoming the Upper Volta Republic (now Burkina Faso) and the Dahomey Republic (now Benin), respectively, and join the French community.
1960 - During a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle, French forces are suppressed in a violent clash with protesters in Algeria.
1962 - Arthur Lucas, the last man to be executed in Canada on murder charges.
1964 - Che Guevara addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
1972 - Apollo becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the 17th Moon.
1978 - The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Jimmy Burke, a partner in the Lucchese family. It was the largest cash robbery on American soil at the time.
1980 - The U.S. Congress passes the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund).
1981 - The El Mozote Massacre: Armed Forces in El Salvador killed about 900 civilians during a campaign against guerrillas during El Salvador's civil war.
1990 - Student and workers' demonstrations begin across Albania, leading to the collapse of communism in Albania.
1994 - The First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders the deployment of Russian troops in Chechnya.
1994 - A bomb explodes on Flight 434 of a Philippine airline en route from Manila, Philippines to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to land the plane safely.
1997 - The Kyoto Protocol is signed.
1998 - Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101 people. The pilot, who was flying an Airbus A310-200, is believed to have violated space direction.
1999 - Flight SATA Air Açores 530M crashes over Pico da Esperança on the island of San Jorge in the Azores, killing 35 people.
2001 - The People's Republic of China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2005 - A fire breaks out at the Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hampstead, England.
2005 - The Cronulla Uprising: Thousands of white Australians protest against ethnic violence, resulting in riots against anyone who thinks they are Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these continue with ethnic attacks against Cronulla.
2006 - An international conference on global Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Countries such as Israel and the United States are concerned.
2006 - Mexican President Felipe Calderon launches a military offensive to stop violence by a drug cartel in the state of Mikoakan. This move is often seen as the first incident in the drug war in Mexico.
2007 - Uprising in the Maghreb: Algeria, in Algeria, two cars explode, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near United Nations offices.
2008 - Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $ 50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2012 - A bomb blast near the Syrian village of Aqrab kills at least 125 people and injures about 200 others.
2017 - New York City attempted to bomb: New York City subway, Times Square - 42nd Street / Port Authority bus terminal partially exploded with a pipe bomb. Four people were injured, including the perpetrator.
2019 - The results of the 2019 Buginville Independence Referendum have been announced. The results are one-sided in many ways. More than 98 percent of voters will vote for Bougainville independence.
? BORN?
1445 - Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (died 1496)
1465 - Ashika Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (died 1489).
1475 - Pope Leo X (died 1521)
1566 - Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (died 1650)
1595 - Xeo Mok, Korean politician, poet and scientist (died 1682).
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