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1824 – 1824 United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1917 – A ship carrying TNT and picric acid in Halifax Harbour, Canada, caught fire after a collision and caused one of the largest accidental explosions in history (pictured). 1956 – In what became known as the Blood in the Water match at the Melbourne Olympics , the Hungarian water polo team defeated the Soviet Union 4–0 against the ...
Timeline of history of environmentalism ... (July–December 2017) Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (January–June 2018) ... Timeline of free and ...
December 6 – Ana María Martínez de Nisser, Colombian heroine and writer (d. 1872) December 8 – Henry Varnum Poor, American financial analyst (d. 1905) December 14 – Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning, British Viceroy of India (d. 1862) December 17 – Vilhelm Petersen, Danish painter (d. 1880)
A December 11 game in Shanghai, ... For the first time in its 6,400 year history, the Holy City of Jerusalem was the site of an airplane landing. [106]
Four years ago today, 20 children and six women were killed in what remains the deadliest mass shooting at a high school or grade school in U.S. history.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history