| 1753 |
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George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to the entire Ohio River valley. |
| 1770 |
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The British soldiers responsible for the "Boston Massacre" are acquitted on murder charges. |
| 1862 |
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The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River. |
| 1863 |
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Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners. |
| 1901 |
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Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland. |
| 1927 |
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Communists forces seize Canton, China. |
| 1930 |
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The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town. |
| 1930 |
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The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany. |
| 1931 |
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Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China. |
| 1943 |
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The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad. |
| 1943 |
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The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation. |
| 1956 |
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The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary. |
| 1964 |
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Kenya becomes a republic. |
| 1964 |
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Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon. |
| 1967 |
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The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam. |
| 1995 |
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Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco. |
| Born on December 12 |
| 1745 |
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John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who negotiated treaties for the United States. |
| 1805 |
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William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist who published The Liberator. |
| 1821 |
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Gustave Flaubert, French novelist (Madame Bovary, A Simple Heart). |
| 1963 |
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian artist (The Scream). |
| 1893 |
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Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for gangster roles. |
| 1897 |
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Lillian Smith, Southern writer and civil rights activist. |
| 1915 |
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Frank Sinatra, American pop singer and actor. |
| 1927 |
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Robert Norton Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit. |
| 1928 |
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Helen Frankenthaler, abstract painter. |
| 1929 |
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John Osbourne, playwright and film producer (Look Back in Anger). |
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