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Insignia for Apollo 17 -
The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
The Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
The Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire, seen from a vantage point between the Northgate and 3Com buildings -
Felipe Calderón -
Bernard Madoff
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Republic Day in Burkina Faso (1958) | refimprove section |
| 220 – Emperor Xian abdicated the throne and the Han dynasty broke apart, beginning the Three Kingdoms period in China. | refimprove section |
| 630 – Muslims led by Muhammad conquered Mecca from the Quraysh. | multiple issues |
| 1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last independent Prince of Wales to rule in Wales, was killed in an ambush. | needs more footnotes, refimprove section |
| 1868 – Revolutionary Vasil Levski began his first tour around Ottoman Bulgaria, laying the foundations for a national uprising against the Ottoman occupation. | appears on February 18 |
| 1931 – The British Parliament enacted the Statute of Westminster, giving the option of complete legislative independence to the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – The United Nations General Assembly created UNICEF, originally to help provide emergency food and health care to children in countries that had been devastated by World War II. | outdated |
| 1971 – The Libertarian Party of the United States was founded, currently one of the largest of America's alternative political parties. | refimprove sections |
| 1980 – The United States Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act to protect people, families, communities and others from heavily contaminated toxic waste sites that have been abandoned. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – The Party of Labour of Albania allowed other political parties to form, the first step in the nation's fall of communism. | refimprove |
| 1994 – The First Chechen War began as Russian forces entered into the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya to control the secessionist movement. | refimprove sections, ISBNs missing |
| 2005 – A series of explosions, described as the biggest of its kind in peacetime Europe, rocked the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. | needs update |
Eligible
- 1886 – The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as Dial Square, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Following an Irish Republican Army ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in Cork, British forces burned and looted numerous buildings in the city.
- 1962 – Convicted murderers Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas were the last two persons to be executed in Canada.
- 2005 – A demonstration by Australians in Cronulla, New South Wales, against recent violence towards locals turned into a race riot.
- 2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust opened in Tehran, but was criticised worldwide as a "meeting of Holocaust deniers".
- 2006 – The first action in the Mexican Drug War took place as President Felipe Calderón ordered Mexican military and Federal Police units into the state of Michoacán.
Born/died: Colley Cibber (d. 1757) · Hector Berlioz (b. 1803) · Max Born (b. 1882)
Notes
- The Blue Marble appears on December 7, so Apollo 17 should not appear in the same year
- Newcastle United F.C. appears on December 9, so Arsenal should not appear in the same year
- 1789 – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, received its charter.
- 1899 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein, Boers defeated the forces of the British Empire trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
- 1972 – Apollo 17 (Lunar Roving Vehicle pictured), the last Apollo mission, landed on the Moon.
- 1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: About 900 civilians were killed by the Salvadoran armed forces in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
- 2008 – American stockbroker Bernard Madoff was arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme, the largest in history.
Averroes (d. 1198) · Subramania Bharati (b. 1882) · Big Mama Thornton (b. 1926)