Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 12
This is a list of selected December 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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George W. Bush
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Cairo was sunk in the Yazoo River, the first armored ship sunk by a naval mine. | unreferenced section |
| 1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, was inaugurated as Cidade de Minas. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1936 – Xi'an Incident: Chiang Kai-shek, the Generalissimo of the Republic of China, was kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former warlord of Manchuria. | Needs more footnotes |
| 1937 – Japanese aircraft attacked and sank the USS Panay while it was anchored in the Yangtze. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1964 – Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya. | {{unreferenced}} |
| 1988 – In one of the worst railway accidents in the United Kingdom in recent times, a total of 35 people died and 500 others were injured during two collisions between three commuter trains near the Clapham Junction railway station in London. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 627 – A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh, near present-day Mosul, Iraq.
- 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu Wireless Station in Cornwall, England, to Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland.
- 1942 – World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1956 – The Irish Republican Army began its Border Campaign, a guerrilla campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland.
- 1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, killing 256, including 248 members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
December 12: Independence Day in Kenya (1963)
- 1531 – According to traditional Catholic accounts, the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary (pictured) miraculously appeared imprinted on Juan Diego's tilma.
- 1915 – President Yuan Shikai of the Republic of China reinstated the monarchy and declared himself Emperor.
- 1918 – The Flag of Estonia was raised for the first time atop the Pikk Hermann in Tallinn.
- 1941 – At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish race.
- 2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the election recount of the ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election must stop, effectively making George W. Bush the winner.