Argentina national football team
2022
Argentina win the FIFA World Cup final, defeating title holders France 4–2 on penalties following a 3–3 draw after extra time..
December-18
Historical Events on December 18
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First impeachment of Donald Trump
The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
2019
List of bolides
List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
2018
Amtrak Cascades
Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
2017
Kellingley Colliery
Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
2015
2006–2007 Southeast Asian floods
2006
The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced..
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2006
Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)
The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
2005
2003 California gubernatorial recall election
California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2002
NASA
NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
1999
Lockheed L-188 Electra
1995
A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Jamba, Cuando Cubango, Angola, killing 141 people..
Heavy bomber
First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
1981
United Airlines Flight 2860
United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board.
1977
SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730
SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, killing 36.
1977
Soyuz programme
Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1973
Vietnam War
1972
Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th..
Saturn
Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
1966
SCORE (satellite)
Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1958
Tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957
A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.
1957
XX Bomber Command
World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.
1944
Supreme Court of the United States
1944
The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States..
World War II
World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
1939
Lanka Sama Samaja Party
The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1935
Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.
1932
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1917
World War I
1916
World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks..
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car.
1898
The Nutcracker
Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1892
House of Thani
The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
1878
1867 Keelung earthquake
A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.
1867
William H. Seward
1865
US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the United States..
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.
1854
National anthem
The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
1833
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Surrender of the frigate Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1793
New Jersey
New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1787
Thanksgiving (United States)
1777
The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October..
Whitehall Conference
The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
1655
Portuguese Empire
Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
1622
Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1499–1501)
A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
1499
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1271
Zaragoza
1118
The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon from the Almoravid..