10th December

1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet is born.

11th December

1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.

12th December

( This cartoon reads: The meatgrinder has become operational)

1941 – Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery

13th December

• 13/12 1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

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14th December

1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

15th December

. 1944 – Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner, is born.

16th December

• 16/12 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

17th December

• 1531 – Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.

18th December

. 1620: passengers on the British ship Mayflower come ashore at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, to begin their new settlement: Plymouth Colony.

19th December

•  1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

20th December

•1999 – Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.

21st December

• 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.

22nd December

•  1989 – Berlin's Bradenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

23rd December

•  1947 : Bell Labs demonstrates the worlds first Transistor Radio, Bell had also created the first transistor just a few months earlier.

1955 – NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.

25th December

CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

26th December

2004: Thousands die in Asian tsunami.

Sea surges triggered by an earthquake under the Indian Ocean kill over 10,000 people in southern Asia, with many more feared dead

27th December

• 1978 – Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.

28th December

• 1612 –  Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the  planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.

29th December

•  1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

30th December

• 1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.

In post-revolutionary Russia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation (divided in 1936 into the Georgian, Azerbaijan, and Armenian republics). Also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.

31st December

New year's Eve!!!!!!!!!!!