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==Images==
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File:Apollo 17-insignia.png|Insignia for Apollo 17
File:NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle-crop.jpg|Lunar Roving Vehicle, driven by [[Eugene Cernan]]
File:Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower.jpg|The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
File:Old Well 2008.jpg|The Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
File:Buncefield2.jpg|The Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire, seen from a vantage point between the Northgate and 3Com buildings
File:Felipe Calderon 20090130.jpg|Felipe Calderón
File:BernardMadoff.jpg|Bernard Madoff
File:The Burning of Cork (9713428703).jpg|Workers clearing rubble in Cork following the fires
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==Ineligible==
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| [[Republic Day]] in '''[[Burkina Faso]]''' ([[1958]])
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| [[220]] – [[Emperor Xian of Han|Emperor Xian]] abdicated the throne and the [[Han dynasty]] broke apart, beginning the '''[[Three Kingdoms]]''' period in China.
| refimprove section
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| [[630]] – Muslims led by [[Muhammad]] '''[[Conquest of Mecca|conquered Mecca]]''' from the [[Quraysh tribe|Quraysh]].
| multiple issues
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| [[1282]] – '''[[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd]]''', the last independent [[Prince of Wales]] to rule in Wales, was killed in an ambush.
| refimprove
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| [[1868]] – Revolutionary '''[[Vasil Levski]]''' began his first tour around [[Ottoman Bulgaria]], laying the foundations for a national uprising against the Ottoman occupation.
| appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 18|February 18]]
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| [[1931]] – The [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|British Parliament]] enacted the '''[[Statute of Westminster 1931|Statute of Westminster]]''', giving the option of complete legislative independence to the [[Irish Free State]], [[Dominion of Newfoundland|Newfoundland]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]] and [[South Africa]].
| refimprove section
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| [[1946]] – The [[United Nations General Assembly]] created '''[[UNICEF]]''', originally to help provide emergency food and health care to children in countries that had been devastated by [[World War II]].
| needs cleanup, outdated
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| [[1962]] – Convicted murderers [[Ronald Turpin]] and [[Arthur Lucas]] became the last two persons to be '''[[Capital punishment in Canada|executed in Canada]]'''.
| lots of CN tags (14)
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| [[1971]] – The '''[[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Party of the United States]]''' was founded, currently one of the largest of America's alternative political parties.
| refimprove sections
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| [[1980]] – The [[United States Congress]] enacted the '''[[Superfund|Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act]]''' to protect people, families, communities and others from heavily contaminated [[toxic waste]] sites that have been abandoned.
| refimprove/unreferenced section
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| [[1990]] – The [[Party of Labour of Albania]] allowed other political parties to form, the first step in '''[[Fall of communism in Albania|the nation's fall of communism]]'''.
| refimprove
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| [[1994]] – The '''[[First Chechen War]]''' began as Russian forces entered into the breakaway [[Republics of Russia|Russian republic]] of [[Chechnya]] to control the [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|secessionist movement]].
| refimprove section, ISBNs missing
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| [[2005]] – '''[[Buncefield fire|A series of explosions]]''', described as the biggest of its kind in peacetime Europe, rocked the [[Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal]] in [[Hemel Hempstead]], [[Hertfordshire]], England.
| needs update
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| '''[[Subramania Bharati]]''' |b|1882
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==Eligible==
* [[1789]] – The '''[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]''', one of the [[Oldest public university in the United States|oldest public universities in the United States]] and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, was chartered.
* [[1886]] – The London-based [[Association football|football]] club [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]], then known as Dial Square, '''[[History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966)|played their first match]]''' on the [[Isle of Dogs]].
* [[1899]] – [[Second Boer War]]: In the '''[[Battle of Magersfontein]]''', [[Boer]]s defeated British forces trying to relieve the [[Siege of Kimberley]].
* [[1920]] – [[Irish War of Independence]]: Following an [[Irish Republican Army]] ambush of a British [[Auxiliary Division|Auxiliary]] patrol in [[Cork (city)|Cork]], British forces '''[[Burning of Cork|burned and looted]]''' numerous buildings in the city.
* [[1972]] – '''[[Apollo 17]]''', the last [[Apollo program|Apollo mission]], landed on the [[Moon]].
* [[1998]] – With the pilot believed to have been suffering from [[spatial disorientation]], '''[[Thai Airways International Flight 261|Thai Airways {{nowrap|Flight 261}}]]''' crashed in a rice [[Paddy field|paddy]] on its landing attempt at [[Surat Thani International Airport|Surat Thani airport]], resulting in 101 deaths.
* [[2005]] – Demonstrations in [[Cronulla, New South Wales|Cronulla]], a suburb of Sydney, against recent violence towards locals turned into '''[[2005 Cronulla riots|a series of race riots]]'''.
* [[2006]] – The '''[[International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust]]''' opened in [[Tehran]], but was criticised worldwide as a "meeting of [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust deniers]]".
* [[2006]] – The first action in the '''[[Mexican drug war]]''' began as President [[Felipe Calderón]] [[Operation Michoacán|ordered]] Mexican soldiers and [[Federal Police (Mexico)|Federal Police]] units into the state of [[Michoacán]].
* [[2008]] – American stockbroker '''[[Bernie Madoff]]''' was arrested and charged with [[securities fraud]] in a {{Nowrap|$64.8 billion}} [[Ponzi scheme]], the largest in history.
* Born/died: | '''[[Averroes]]''' |d|1198| '''[[George Mason]]''' |b|1725| '''[[Colley Cibber]]''' |d|1757| '''[[Hector Berlioz]]''' |b|1803| '''[[Webster Paulson]]''' |b|1837| '''[[Max Born]]''' |b|1882| '''[[Big Mama Thornton]]''' |b|1926| '''[[Emmanuelle Charpentier]]''' |b|1968

==Notes==
* [[The Blue Marble]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 7|December 7]], so Apollo 17 should not appear in the same year
* [[Newcastle United F.C.]] appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 9|December 9]], so Arsenal should not appear in the same year
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'''[[December 11]]''':
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* [[861]] – The [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]] caliph [[al-Mutawakkil]] was assassinated by his guards, beginning the '''[[Anarchy at Samarra]]'''.
* [[1640]] – A crowd of 1,500 people presented the '''[[Root and Branch petition]]''' to the [[Long Parliament]], calling for abolishing the [[Episcopal polity|episcopacy]] of the [[Church of England]].
* [[1907]] – The original '''[[Parliament House, Wellington|Parliament House]]''' ''(modern building pictured)'' in [[Wellington]], New Zealand, was destroyed by fire.
* [[1925]] – [[Pope Pius XI|Pope Pius XI]] promulgated the [[encyclical]] '''''[[Quas primas]]''''', establishing the [[Feast of Christ the King]].
* [[1981]] – [[Salvadoran Civil War]]: About 900 civilians '''[[El Mozote massacre|were killed]]''' by [[Armed Forces of El Salvador|Salvadoran armed forces]] in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
{{Born and died list| '''[[Al-Fath ibn Khaqan]]''' |d|861| '''[[Kamehameha V|Kamehameha V]]''' |bd|1830; 1872| '''[[Marco Pierre White]]''' |b|1961}}
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