December 12

Sunday 12, 2004:

Portuguese football team FC Porto wins the last-held Intercontinental Cup against Colombia's Once Caldas in an 8-7 penalty shoot-out.

Friday 12, 2003:

Paul Martin, Jr. is sworn-in as the 21st Prime Minister of Canada

Tuesday 12, 2000:

The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore, deciding the presidential election of 2000.

Thursday 12, 1996:

Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.

Thursday 12, 1985:

Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 248 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division

Monday 12, 1983:

Dallos is the first OAV (Original Animation Video) ever released.

Saturday 12, 1981:

The Chaos Computer Club was founded in Berlin.

Wednesday 12, 1979:

Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe

Friday 12, 1969:

Strage di Piazza Fontana in Italy.

Thursday 12, 1963:

Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

Tuesday 12, 1950:

Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.

Sunday 12, 1948:

Batang Kali Massacre, Malaysia

Thursday 12, 1946:

A fire at a New York, New York ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.

Saturday 12, 1942:

A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.

Friday 12, 1941:

United States seizes French ship Normandie.

Tuesday 12, 1939:

Finland defeated the Soviet Union in the Battle of Tolvajärvi, their first major victory in the Winter War.

Sunday 12, 1937:

Panay incident

Saturday 12, 1925:

Reza Pahlavi takes control of Iran as Shah

Wednesday 12, 1917:

In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys (in 1979 it was opened to girls as well).

Sunday 12, 1915:

President of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai declares himself the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, restoring monarchy.

Friday 12, 1913:

Mona Lisa recovered in Florence, two years after it was stolen

Tuesday 12, 1911:

The capital of India is shifted to New Delhi from Calcutta (now Kolkata).

Saturday 12, 1903:

The City of Fairfield,California is incorporated.

Thursday 12, 1901:

First radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean by Guglielmo Marconi

Wednesday 12, 1900:

US Steel formed

Sunday 12, 1897:

The city of Belo Horizonte is founded.

Thursday 12, 1872:

A meteorite struck earth near the town of Banbury, England.

Monday 12, 1870:

Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first black U.S. congressman

Wednesday 12, 1787:

Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution

Wednesday 12, 1781:

The British navy defeated a French fleet in the Second Battle of Ushant during the American Revolutionary War.

Tuesday 12, 1719:

The first U.S. newspaper (the Boston Gazette) is published

Saturday 12, 1531:

Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City

Monday 12, 1098:

massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan where Crusaders resort to cannibalism

Wednesday 12, 627:

Battle of Nineveh

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