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December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.
The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity.For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians.
Notes. Mohamed Bouazizi appears on December 17, so Tunisian revolution should not appear in the same year. December 18: National Day in Qatar ( 1878 ) Atlas rocket carrying SCORE. 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
The original Famous Birthdays website was created by Edward Morykwas, a Michigan schoolteacher, in 1996. [4] [5] [6]The site was updated to its current format in November 7, 2012, by Evan Britton, [7] who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".
2001 - Death of Franco Rasetti, Italian physicist (b. 1901) December 6: 1586 - Birth of Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer (d. 1670) 1771 - Death of Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682) 1778 - Birth of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) 1855 - Death of William John Swainson, English naturalist ...
Wikipedia. : Selected anniversaries/December. 1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars. 1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign ...
16 Famous People Born on July 4. 1. Neil Simon (1927-2018), playwright. 2. Bill Withers (1938-2020), singer-songwriter. 3. Malia Obama (1998), daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama. Seems ...
Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 –February 23, 2019), American music historian and critic, would have turned 95 this year. Bill Reichenbach Sr. (December 18, 1923 –May 16, 2008), American trombonist and composer, would have turned 100 this year. Big Miller (December 18, 1922 –June 09, 1992), (born Clarence Horatio Miller) American trombonist ...