Monday, December 31, 2012

Friday, December 28, 2012

Thursday, December 27, 2012

28 December 1879

The Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train crosses it, killing

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

26 December 1996

JonBenét Ramsey, the 6 year old beauty queen is found dead in the basement of her family's home in

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Saturday, December 22, 2012

23 December 1972

The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days. They survived by

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Friday, December 21, 2012

22 December 1989

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin re-opens after nearly 30 years, ending the division of East and West

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

21 December 1988

A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland, killing all 270 on

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

20 December 1987

The ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people making its the worst ever maritime

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Monday, December 17, 2012

Sunday, December 16, 2012

17 December 1967

The Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming and is assumed to have

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

16 December 1972

Victory Day is commemorated every 16 December in India to mark its military victory over Pakistan in

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Friday, December 14, 2012

15 December 2010

A boat carrying over ninety asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing more than 30

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

13 December 1937

Japanese troops start carrying out several weeks of raping and killing of civilians and suspected Chinese resistance after the fall of

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

12 December 1937

Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in

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Monday, December 10, 2012

11 December 1920

In revenge for an IRA ambush, the British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

9 December 2008

Rod Blagojevich, The Governor of Illinois, is arrested for attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President Barack Obama.

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

5 December 1952

A combination of a cold fog combined with air pollution in London kills at least 12,000 in the months that

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Monday, December 3, 2012

4 December 1969

Two members of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

3 December 1984

A chemical leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

2 December 1804

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of France, the first French Emperor in a thousand

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