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December 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Establishment of Kurdish Women's Union (Iraqi Kurdistan) Indiana Day (United States) International Mountain Day [60] National Tango Day (Argentina) Pampanga Day (Pampanga province, Philippines) Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958. (Burkina ...
December 11 Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1789 – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (structure pictured) , one of the oldest public universities in the United States and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, was chartered.
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, with, on December 11, the most recent crewed lunar landing.Commander Gene Cernan (pictured) and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above.
A truck crash kills more than 50 people, mostly Guatemalans and Hondurans, in Chiapas, Mexico.; Chief of the Defence Staff of India Bipin Rawat (pictured) and 12 others die in a helicopter crash.
On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and three days after the United States declaration of war against Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a "series of provocations" by the United States government when the U.S. was still officially neutral during World War II.
Himalayas, Ama Dablam, Nepal. Mountain Day refers to three different and unrelated events: (1) Mountain Day, a student celebration in some colleges in the United States in which classes are cancelled without prior notice, and the student body heads to the mountains or a park, (2) International Mountain Day, held each year on 11 December, which was established by the UN General Assembly in 2003 ...
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Beginning with 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimetres) on December 11 and peaking on December 12, Buffalo and Rochester in western New York received 13.6 and 22.3 inches (35 and 57 centimetres) of snow, respectively, from the storm, while Syracuse received 18.2 inches (46 cm) over three days commencing December 12.