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Alfonso I enters Zaragoza after its siege

On December 18, 1118, King Alfonso I of Aragon entered Zaragoza after a months-long siege of the Almoravid-held city. He visited the Aljafería palace that day and took possession of the government palace on December 19. The city, in present-day Spain, became part of his expanding Aragonese realm.

Alfonso entered Zaragoza on December 18; taking possession of the government palace followed December 19.

Spain

First Luso-Malabarese War

The First Luso–Malabarese War was the first armed conflict fought by the Portuguese Empire in Asia, and the first of nine against the Zamorin of Calicut, then the preeminent power on the Malabar Coast, in India. The conflict erupted in 1500 over trade. Though himself a Hindu, the Zamorin was closely associated with and heavily dependent on the influential Muslim merchant community of Calicut.

This entry records the event's start date, as given in the source infobox.

India

Siege of Wolmar

The Siege of Wolmar occurred during the Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611), between October 18 and December 18, 1601. Polish forces, numbering around 15,000, with 50 pieces of artillery, led by the Grand Crown Hetman Jan Zamoyski besieged the city (present day Valmiera) defended by about 1,000 infantry under Jacob De la Gardie and Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm. Other notable commanders on the Polish side included the Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski and the field marshal Jürgen von Farensbach (Jerzy Farensbach). The king of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa, was initially present at the siege, but left for Wilno on December 5th.At first the Swedish artillery managed to hold back the Poles who did not intend to storm Wolmar without proper siege cannons.

Valmiera, Latvia

Battle of Mbumbi

The Battle of Mbumbi was a military engagement between forces of Portuguese Angola and the Kingdom of Kongo in 1622. Although the Portuguese were victorious, the battle served as the impetus for the Kingdom of Kongo to expel the Portuguese from their territory.

Angola

The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290

The Whitehall Conference was a gathering of prominent English merchants, clergymen, and lawyers convened by Oliver Cromwell for the purpose of debating whether Jews should be readmitted to England. The conference lasted from 4 to 18 December 1655. While Cromwell himself was in favour of Jewish resettlement, the participants ultimately broke down into three groups.

Battle of Galudoghson

The Battle of Galudoghson took place in December 1742, at a site near present-day Glasgow, Virginia, when the Augusta County militia engaged in combat with Onondaga and Oneida Indians. These warriors had traveled to Virginia from Pennsylvania under the command of a Haudenosaunee chief named Jonnhaty, to participate in a campaign against the Catawba. The battle was the first armed conflict between settlers in Western Virginia and Native Americans.

United States

Clifton Moor Skirmish

In this article, dates are given in the Julian calendar in use in England at the time, unless otherwise stated. The Clifton Moor Skirmish took place between forces of the United Kingdom Hanoverian government and Jacobite rebels on Wednesday 18 December 1745 (29 December Gregorian). Since the commander of the government forces, the Duke of Cumberland, was aware of the Jacobite presence in Derby, the Jacobite leader Prince Charles Edward Stuart decided to retreat north back towards Scotland. Charles began his retreat from Derby on 6 December 1745.

Clifton, Cumbria, United Kingdom · England, United Kingdom

Battle of Martinique (1779)

The Battle of Martinique was a naval encounter on 18 December 1779 between a British 13-ship squadron under Admiral Hyde Parker and a three-ship French division under Admiral Lamotte-Picquet near the island of Martinique in the West Indies. In order to cover the retreat of a convoy under Joseph de Flotte chased by the British, the lone 74-gun Annibal, under Lamotte-Picquet.

Martinique, France

New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution

New Jersey is a state located in both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the heavily urbanized Northeast megalopolis, it is bordered to the northwest, north, and northeast by New York State; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and Delaware.

Battle of Villelongue

The Battle of Villelongue (7 and 18 December 1793) saw a Royal Spanish force from the army commanded by Antonio Ricardos attack a position held by a Republican French force from the army led by François Amédée Doppet. Spanish and French attack columns passed each other in the night without detecting each other. On 7 December, the Spanish attack on Villelongue-dels-Monts was delivered first and was completely successful, causing the French soldiers to flee.

Pyrénées-Orientales, France

Federalist revolts

The Federalist revolts were uprisings that broke out in various parts of France in the summer of 1793, during the French Revolution. They were prompted by resentments in France's provincial cities about increasing centralisation of power in Paris, and increasing radicalisation of political authority in the hands of the Jacobins. In most of the country, the trigger for uprising was the exclusion of the Girondins from the National Convention after the Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June 1793.

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France

1798 South Carolina gubernatorial election

The 1798 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on December 18, 1798, in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Federalist candidate and former member of the South Carolina Senate Edward Rutledge was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly against fellow Federalist candidate and former Governor William Moultrie.

South Carolina, United States

Travancore rebellion

The Travancore rebellion against the British East India Company was led by the prime ministers of the Indian states of Travancore and Cochin in 1808–09 with the alleged support from Sikhs ruling Punjab.

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India

Siege of Riga (1812)

The siege of Riga was a military operation during the Napoleonic Wars. The siege lasted five months from July – December 1812, during which the left flank of Napoleon's "Great Army" (La Grande Armée) tried to gain a favorable position for an attack on Russian-controlled port city Riga, the capital of the Governorate of Livonia. They failed to cross the Daugava River, and accordingly the siege was not carried out completely.

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

Latvia

Battle of Mudki

The Battle of Mudki was fought on 18 December 1845, between the forces of the British East India Company and a part of the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of the Sikh Empire. The British army were able to win the battle, despite suffering heavy casualties in the process.

Battle of Lexington, Tennessee

The Battle of Lexington in Tennessee was a small battle of the American Civil War, fought at Lexington, Tennessee on December 18, 1862, as part of General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry raid into western Tennessee. In late 1862, the main Union army in the west was in northern Mississippi. General Braxton Bragg sent General Forrest to raid into Tennessee against the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which was a Union supply line.

Tennessee, United States

A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people

The 1867 Keelung earthquake occurred off the northern coast of Taiwan on the morning of December 18 with a magnitude of 7.0. It produced strong shaking that seriously damaged the cities of Keelung and Taipei. A tsunami drowned hundreds and had a run-up exceeding 15 m (49 ft), possibly the only confirmed widely destructive and deadly tsunami in Taiwan's history.

Battle of Pesmes

The Battle of Pesmes was part of the Franco-Prussian War. It took place from December 16 to 18, 1870, at the French commune of Pesmes, on the river Ognon between Gray and Dole. The Prussian army, which included Uhlans (light cavalry) and artillery, defeated the French army and achieved their goal of destroying the bridge over the Ognon river. Simultaneously, the Prussian army under the command of General August von Werder captured Nuits-Saint-Georges from the hands of French commander, Camille Crémer on 18 December 1870.

Battle of Nuits Saint Georges

The Battle of Nuits-Saint-Georges was a battle in the Franco-Prussian War, which took place on December 18, 1870. In this battle, the Baden Division of Germany commanded by General Adolf von Glümer and the XIV Legion under the command of General August von Werder, took Nuits from a French force led by General Camille Crémer, forced the French army to withdraw overnight with heavy losses for both sides.

1877 United States Senate election in California

The 1877 United States Senate election in California was held on December 18, 1877, by the California State Legislature to elect a U.S. senator (Class 3) to represent the State of California in the United States Senate. Democratic state senator James T. Farley was elected over Republican State Assemblyman Morris M. Estee.

California, United States

1878 Manitoba general election

The 1878 Manitoba general election was held on December 18, 1878 to elect representatives to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

First Battle of Vailele

The First Battle of Vailele occurred on 18 December 1888 at the German plantation of Vailele, Samoa. Sixteen German marines were ambushed and killed by forces loyal to Mata'afa Iosefo. A memorial for the Germans killed at the battle was erected in a ceremony presided over by the commander of the unprotected cruiser Sperber.

Samoa

The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiers in Saint Petersburg, Russia

The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪlˈkunʲtɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll. The plot is an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 short story The Tale of a Nutcracker, itself a retelling of E.

Battle of Halai

The Battle of Halai, or the Battle of Halay, which took place in December 1894 was a battle between an Eritrean rebel force under Bahta Hagos and the Italian army. In the 1890s, Ethiopia began plotting an insurrection in Italian-held Eritrea to push back against Italian encroachment on the country and to liberate the people from Italian imperialism.

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Eritrea

Hong Kong sanitary board election, 1899

The 1899 Sanitary Board Election was supposed to be held on 18 December 1899 for the 2 unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. Only persons on the jury lists of the year were eligible to vote. There were only two candidates therefore only 19 votes were cast as a formality. Prior to the election, the issue of reconstitution of the Sanitary Board was intensively debated. A plebiscite of the British community based on the jury lists was held in June 1896, as to whether Sanitary Board should contain an official or unofficial majority.

Hong Kong

Moscow uprising of 1905

The Moscow uprising, centered in Moscow's Presnensky district between 7 and 18 December 1905, was the climax of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Thousands of workers joined an armed rebellion against the imperial government fighting for better societal conditions. The uprising ended in defeat for the revolutionaries and provoked a swift counter-revolution that lasted until 1907.

Ovambo Uprising

The Ovambo Uprising was an uprising against Portuguese colonial rule during World War I. It lasted from 18 December 1914 to 6 February 1917 with the death of its leader, King Mandume yaNdemufayo, by South African forces in Namibia. The war pitted Portuguese troops, commanded by General António Júlio da Costa Pereira de Eça, against an Ovambo army, composed mainly of fighters from the Oukwanyama clan.

Battle of Naulila

Naulila was the scene of fighting between Portuguese Angola and German South West Africa during the early stages of World War I. On 19 October 1914, a German military column crossed the border and entered Angola without authorization from the Portuguese authorities in the Naulila Incident. The column was intercepted by Portuguese forces and conducted to Fort Naulila.

Battle of Verdun

The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun.

World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.

Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933, making it the only constitutional amendment in American history to be repealed. The Eighteenth Amendment was the product of decades of efforts by the temperance movement, which held that a ban on the sale of alcohol would ameliorate poverty and other societal problems.

United States

1917 Boston mayoral election

The Boston mayoral election of 1917 occurred on Tuesday, December 18, 1917. Andrew James Peters, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, defeated incumbent Mayor of Boston James Michael Curley and two other candidates. Peters was inaugurated on Monday, February 4, 1918.

Boston, United States

French troops land in Odessa during the Russian Civil War

On December 18, 1918, French troops landed in Odessa as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The landing took place on the Black Sea coast in what is now Ukraine. It began a French-led intervention in the region that continued into 1919.

This records the French landing at Odessa, rather than every later operation in the wider intervention.

Ukraine

Kalgoorlie by-election, 1920

A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Kalgoorlie on 18 December 1920. It was triggered by the expulsion from the House of Labor Party MP Hugh Mahon. The subsequent by-election was won by Nationalist Party candidate George Foley. It is the only federal by-election in Australian history at which the government has won a seat from the opposition.

Australia

1921 Hungary v Poland football match

The 1921 football game between Hungary and Poland was a friendly match played on 18 December 1921, of historical importance in Poland, as it was the first international match in the history of the Poland national football team. Even though Hungary won the match 1–0, the game helped Poland establish its national football team following its reestablishment as a sovereign nation following World War I.

Poland

Battle of Guangzhou

The Battle of Guangzhou was an internal conflict within the National Revolutionary Army in the aftermath of Chiang Kai-shek's successes in the Northern Expedition. It occurred shortly after the Chinese Communist Party-led Guangzhou Uprising, which was crushed by Li Jishen's opponent Zhang Fakui in December 1927. On December 29, 1927, Li Jishen's forces were able to capture Guangzhou, and Miao Peinan retreated to Huizhou.

People's Republic of China

Hutt by-election, 1929

The Hutt by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Hutt, an urban seat at the bottom of the North Island. The by-election was held on 18 December 1929, and was precipitated by the resignation of sitting United MP Thomas Wilford on who had been appointed the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Joseph Ward. The by-election was contested by Walter Nash of the Labour Party, James Kerr from the United Party and Harold Johnston of the Reform Party. The lead up to the by-election was marred by harsh words between candidates.

New Zealand

The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship

The 1932 NFL Playoff Game was an extra game held to break a tie in the 1932 season's final standings in the National Football League (NFL); it matched the host Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans. Because of snowfall and anticipated extremely cold temperatures in Chicago, Illinois, it was moved indoors and played at the three-year-old Chicago Stadium on December 18 on a reduced-size field on Sunday night.

1935 Czechoslovak presidential election

The 1935 Czechoslovak presidential election took place on 18 December 1935. Edvard Beneš was elected the second President of Czechoslovakia and replaced Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Beneš's victory was considered unlikely due to lack of support in a parliament but negotiations helped him to win much larger support than Masaryk has ever received.

Czechia

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, often abbreviated as LSSP (lit. 'Lanka Equal Society Party', Sinhala: ලංකා සම සමාජ පක්ෂය, Tamil: லங்கா சமசமாஜக் கட்சி), is a major Trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. It was the first political party in Sri Lanka (at the time known as British Ceylon), having been founded in 1935 by Leslie Goonewardene, N. M. Perera, Colvin R. de Silva, Philip Gunawardena and Robert Gunawardena.

Slovak parliamentary election, 1938

Parliamentary elections were held in Slovakia on 18 December 1938 following the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Slovakia

World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place

The Battle of the Heligoland Bight was the first "named" air battle of the Second World War, which began the longest air campaign of the war on 3 September 1939, the Defence of the Reich. After the declaration of war, RAF Bomber Command began operations against Nazi Germany but limited their attacks to those targets that were purely military and had little risk of civilian casualties.

Lorraine campaign

The Lorraine campaign was the operations of the U.S. Third Army in Lorraine during World War II from September 1 through December 18, 1944. Official U.S. Army campaign names for this period and location are Northern France and Rhineland. The term was popularized by the publication of the volume The Lorraine Campaign of the official history of the U.S. Army in 1950.

Operation Ichi-Go

Operation Ichi-Go (Japanese: 一号作戦, romanized: Ichi-gō Sakusen, lit. 'Operation Number One') was a campaign with several battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December 1944. It consisted of three battles in the Chinese provinces of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi.

World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.

Battle of Clervaux

The Battle of Clervaux or the Battle for Clervaux (in English sources, Clervaux is occasionally called by the German name Clerf) was an opening engagement of the Battle of the Bulge that took place in the town of Clervaux in northern Luxembourg. It lasted from December 16 to 18, 1944. German forces encircled numerically inferior American forces, primarily from the 28th Infantry Division's 110th Infantry Regiment and the 109th Field Artillery Battalion, and quickly forced them to surrender.

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Luxembourg

The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party".

1949 Cupa României final

The 1949 Cupa României final was the 12th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between CSCA București and CSU Cluj, and was won by CSCA after a game with 3 goals. It was the first cup title in the history of CSCA București.

1955 Cupa României final

The 1955 Cupa României final was the 18th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between CCA București and Progresul Oradea, and was won by CCA București after a game with nine goals, in extra time. It was the fifth cup for CCA București. Progresul Oradea was the forth club representing Divizia B which reached the Romanian Cup final, after CAM Timișoara in 1938, Flacăra Mediaș in 1951 and Metalul Reșița in 1954.

Tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957

On December 18–20, 1957, a significant tornado outbreak sequence affected the southern Midwest and the South of the contiguous United States. The outbreak sequence began on the afternoon of December 18, when a low-pressure area approached the southern portions of Missouri and Illinois. Supercells developed and proceeded eastward at horizontal speeds of 40 to 45 miles per hour (64 to 72 km/h), yielding what was considered the most severe tornado outbreak in Illinois on record so late in the calendar year.

The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite

SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the world's first purpose-built communications satellite. Launched on December 18,1958, SCORE provided the first broadcast of a human voice from space. It was also the first successful usage of the Atlas rocket as a launch vehicle, The satellite was popularly dubbed "The Talking Atlas" as well as "Chatterbox".

Operation Game Warden

Operation Game Warden was a joint operation conducted by the United States Navy and South Vietnamese Navy in order to deny Viet Cong access to resources in the Mekong River Delta. Game Warden and its counterpart Operation Market Time are considered to be two of the most successful U.S. Naval actions during the Vietnam War.

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Vietnam

Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker

Epimetheus is an inner satellite of Saturn. It is named after the titan Epimetheus, the brother of Prometheus and son of Iapetus.

Operation Muscatine

Operation Muscatine was a security operation conducted during the Vietnam War by the US Army in Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam from 18 December 1967 to 10 June 1968. During this operation on 16 March 1968 the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment and the 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment carried out the My Lai Massacre.

Operation Linebacker II

Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, the Twelve days and nights, or Điện Biên Phủ of the Sky, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against military and industrial areas of North Vietnam from 18 December to 29 December 1972, during the Vietnam War. More than 20,000 tons of ordnance was dropped, primarily targeting Hanoi and Haiphong, and at least 1,624 civilians were killed.

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Vietnam

Soviet Soyuz 13 spacecraft launches with two cosmonauts

On December 18, 1973, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 13 from the Baykonur Cosmodrome, in what is now Kazakhstan. Cosmonauts Pyotr Klimuk and Valentin Lebedev began an eight-day mission focused on scientific experiments. Their flight overlapped with the U.S. Skylab 4 crew’s time in orbit, the first time American and Soviet crews were in space at the same time.

Launch day; Kazakhstan is the modern country of the launch site, which was then part of the Soviet Union.

Kazakhstan

Greek presidential election, 1974

An indirect election for the position of President of the Hellenic Republic was held by the Hellenic Parliament on 18 December 1974. Following the restoration of democracy in Greece, the 17 November 1974 election, and the abolition of the Greek monarchy in the 8 December 1974 referendum, distinguished jurist and former president of the Council of State Michail Stasinopoulos was elected as the first, provisional, President of the Third Hellenic Republic on 18 December with 206 votes. He served as an interim president until July 1975, when Konstantinos Tsatsos replaced him as the first regular President with the full five-year term.

Greece

United Airlines Flight 2860

United Airlines Flight 2860 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight in the United States from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, with an intermediate stop added at Salt Lake City, Utah. On December 18, 1977, operated by one of the airline's Douglas DC-8 Jet Traders, registration N8047U, the flight was in a holding pattern in Utah and crashed into a mountain in the Wasatch Range near Fruit Heights.

Utah, United States

SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730

SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 was a Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 10R aircraft, registered as HB-ICK, that crashed on approach to Funchal Airport, Madeira, on December 18, 1977.

Portugal

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it was instituted on 3 September 1981 and has been ratified by 189 states.

1980 Israeli Labor Party leadership election

The 1980 Israeli Labor Party leadership election was held on 18 December 1980. It saw the delegates to the party's convention reelect Shimon Peres as the party's leader. Peres defeated Yitzhak Rabin. This was the third of four leadership contests in which Rabin and Peres faced each other (following the 1974 and February 1977 and preceding the 1992 leadership elections).

First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built

The Tupolev Tu-160 (Russian: Туполев Ту-160 «Белый лебедь», romanized: Bely Lebed, lit. 'White Swan'; NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a Soviet/Russian nuclear-capable supersonic, variable-sweep wing heavy strategic bomber and airborne missile platform designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1970s. The aircraft is large, longer than a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress at 54 m, with wingspan 56 m when spread, 36 m when swept back.

1983 Japanese general election

General elections were held in Japan on 18 December 1983 to elect the 511 members of the House of Representatives. The voter turnout was 67.94%, the lowest it had ever been in post-war history up to that point, and a low which would not be surpassed until ten years later.

Japan

1984 United Nations Security Council election

The 1984 United Nations Security Council election was held from 22 October to 18 December 1984 during the Thirty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Australia, Denmark, Madagascar, Thailand, and Trinidad and Tobago, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1985.

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1988 AFC Asian Cup final

The 1988 AFC Asian Cup final was a football match which determined the winner of the 1988 AFC Asian Cup, the 8th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of the Asian Football Confederation.

Qatar

South Korean presidential election, 1992

The 14th South Korean presidential election took place on 18 December 1992. This was the second democratic election since 1987. The voter turnout was 81.9%.

South Korea

Djiboutian parliamentary election, 1992

Parliamentary elections were held in Djibouti on 18 December 1992. They were the first elections following a referendum in September that reintroduced multi-party democracy, albeit with a limit of four parties, although they were boycotted by the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy. The ruling People's Rally for Progress won 75% of the vote and all 65 seats in the National Assembly.

Djibouti

Juicio Final (1992)

Juicio Final (1992) (Spanish for "Final Judgement " 1992) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 18, 1992, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena México, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host Circo Atayde .

Mexico City, Mexico

1995 Trans Service Airlift Electra crash

The Trans Service Airlift Lockheed L-188 crash occurred on 18 December 1995 when a Lockheed L-188C Electra owned by Trans Service Airlift crashed near Jamba, Angola, killing 141 of the passengers and crew. Trans Service Airlift (TSA), was a private company headquartered at Ndjili Airport, Kinshasa. The Electra was one of a number of ageing aircraft operated by TSA. Built in 1959 it was sold to TSA in 1992, after service with other operators. On the date of the accident, the aircraft was flying a special charter for UNITA. Following the 1993 trade embargo on UNITA there were frequent "sanction busting" flights out of Zaire.

Angola

1996 President of the Senate of the Czech Republic election

An election of the President of the Senate of the Czech Republic was held on 18 December 1996. Petr Pithart was elected the first President of the Senate. Pithart was a candidate of the Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party (KDU-CSL), and his election was opposed primarily by the Civic Democratic Party.

Czechia

1997 South Korean presidential election

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 18 December 1997. The result was a victory for opposition candidate Kim Dae-jung, who won with 40% of the vote. When he took office in 1998, it marked the first time in Korean history that the ruling party peacefully transferred power to the opposition party.

South Korea

Juicio Final (1998)

Juicio Final (1998) (Spanish for "Final Judgement" 1998) was a professional wrestling supercard show, scripted and produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), which took place on December 18, 1998, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico. The show served as the year-end finale for CMLL before Arena México, CMLL's main venue, closed down for the winter for renovations and to host Circo Atayde .

Mexico City, Mexico

1998 Yosu submersible incident

The 1998 Yosu submersible incident was a naval skirmish that occurred off of the southern coast of South Korea between 17 and 18 December 1998. On the evening of 17 December, a South Korean observation post sighted a North Korean semi-submersible naval vessel in the vicinity of the city of Yosu. The semi-submersible was discovered and sunk during a subsequent search and skirmish on the morning of 18 December.

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South Korea

South Carolina's 2nd congressional district special election, 2001

The 2001 South Carolina 2nd congressional district special election was held on December 18, 2001 to select a Representative for the 2nd congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 107th Congress. The special election resulted from the death of 16-term Republican incumbent Floyd Spence on August 16, 2001. Joe Wilson, a state senator from Lexington County and a former aide to Spence, won the Republican primary and went on to win the general election against Democratic challenger Brent Weaver.

South Carolina, United States

Battle of Adré

The Battle of Adré took place in Adré, Chad on December 18, 2005. The battle began when the Chadian rebel groups Rally for Democracy and Liberty (RDL) and Platform for Change, Unity, and Democracy (SCUD), allegedly backed by the government of Sudan, attacked the garrison in this city. However, Chadian loyalists, who had been forewarned by military intelligence of the attack, easily repulsed the attackers. Either seventy, one hundred, or three hundred rebels were killed, depending on reports. Governmental losses are unknown, but they lost at least one Russian-made helicopter in a collision with electric wires during the fighting, while another Mil Mi-17 helicopter was heavily damaged by rebel fire which killed at least one crew member.

Adré, Chad

Bolivian general election, 2005

General elections were held in Bolivia on 18 December 2005. Evo Morales of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party was elected President of Bolivia with 54% of the vote, the first time a candidate had received an absolute majority since the flawed 1978 elections. Morales was sworn in on 22 January 2006 for a five-year term. The MAS also won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and emerged as the largest party in the Senate. Simultaneously voters elected prefects, the highest executive office in each of Bolivia's nine departments. This was the first time the office had been chosen at the ballot box.

Bolivia

Chadian Civil War (2005–2010)

The Chadian Civil War of 2005–2010 began on 18 December 2005. Since its independence from France in 1960, Chad has been swamped by civil wars between the Arab-Muslims of the north and the Sub-Saharan-Christians of the south. As a result, leadership and presidency in Chad drifted back and forth between the Christian southerners and Muslim northerners. When one side was in power, the other side usually started a revolutionary war to counter it.

Chad

2005 FIFA Club World Championship final

The 2005 FIFA Club World Championship final was an association football match played between São Paulo of Brazil, the CONMEBOL club champions, and Liverpool of England, the UEFA club champions, on 18 December 2005 at the International Stadium Yokohama, Japan. It was the final match of the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship, a competition for the winners of the primary cup competitions of FIFA's continental members.

Japan

Armageddon (2005)

The 2005 Armageddon was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the sixth Armageddon and took place on December 18, 2005, at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, held primarily for wrestlers from the promotion's SmackDown! brand division. The main event was a Hell in a Cell match between Randy Orton and The Undertaker, which Undertaker won by pinfall after performing a Tombstone piledriver.

Rhode Island, United States

Bermudian general election, 2007

The 2007 Bermudan general election was held in Bermuda on 18 December 2007. The campaign was the longest in the history of Bermuda and was hard fought between the two political parties. The Progressive Labour Party (PLP) won a third term in power with 22 seats, as against 14 for the opposition United Bermuda Party (UBP).

Bermuda

Opening of MGM Macau

MGM Macau (Chinese: 美高梅; formerly known as MGM Grand Macau) is a 35-story, 600-room casino resort in Sé, Macau. Under a sub concession approved by the Macau government, the project is owned and operated as a 50-50 joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Pansy Ho, the daughter of Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho.

Dominican general election, 2009

General elections were held in Dominica on 18 December 2009, to elect the 21 Representatives of the House of Assembly. The incumbent Dominica Labour Party increased its majority to 18 of 21 seats, winning a third term. The election was held over a year late because the Prime Minister forgot to ask for a parliamentary dissolution.

Dominica

2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election

The 2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election resulted in a fragmented assembly, with no single party achieving a clear majority. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a plurality winning 18 seats though the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) also secured 18 seats but with a lower vote share, while the Indian National Congress won 14 seats.

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

India

Final Battle 2010

Final Battle 2010 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Ring of Honor. It took place on December 18, 2010, at the Manhattan Center in New York City. It was the eighth annual event in the Final Battle chronology, with the first taking place in 2002, but only the second to be broadcast live. It was the fifth ROH event to be shown as an online pay-per-view. The event saw the culmination of two rivalries, a yearlong battle between former tag team Kevin Steen and El Generico, as well as the feud between The Kings of Wrestling and The Briscoe Brothers.

New York City, United States

2010 FIFA Club World Cup final

The 2010 FIFA Club World Cup final was the final match of the 2010 FIFA Club World Cup, an association football tournament for the champion clubs from each of FIFA's six continental confederations. The match took place at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, on 18 December 2010, and pitted TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the CAF club champions, against Internazionale of Italy, the UEFA club champions.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2011)

The 2011 TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It was the third annual TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs and took place on December 18, 2011, at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland. The concept of the show was based around the primary matches of the card each utilizing tables, ladders, and chairs as legal weapons.

Maryland, United States

2011 FIFA Club World Cup final

The 2011 FIFA Club World Cup final was the final match of the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup, an association football tournament hosted by Japan. It was the eighth final of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organized tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations as well as the host nation's league champions. The final was played between CONMEBOL's champion Santos and UEFA's champion Barcelona.

Japan

Battle of Bor

The Battle of Bor was one of the first battles of the South Sudanese Civil War, consisting of a series of clashes for the city of Bor, the capital of Jonglei State, between the SPLA and SPLA defectors under Peter Gadet, part of the force that would become the SPLA-IO. The city changed hands four times between December 18, 2013 and January 18, 2014, ultimately leaving the SPLA in control.

South Sudan

World Series of Fighting 26: Palmer vs. Almeida

World Series of Fighting 26: Palmer vs. Almeida is a mixed martial arts event held December 18, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. This event will air on NBCSN in the U.S and on Fight Network in Canada.

United States

2015 Seychellois presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Seychelles between 3 and 5 December 2015. As no candidate received more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round was held between 16 and 18 December. Incumbent President James Michel was re-elected, defeating opposition leader Wavel Ramkalawan by just 193 votes in the second round. Ramkalawan claimed there had been "many irregularities", including vote buying.

This entry records the second round, as dated in the source infobox.

Roadblock: End of the Line

Roadblock: End of the Line was a 2016 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE, held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's main roster brand, Raw. It was the second Roadblock and took place on December 18, 2016, at the PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The event's name was a reference to this being WWE's final PPV and livestreaming event of 2016.

Pennsylvania, United States

2016 FIFA Club World Cup final

The 2016 FIFA Club World Cup final was the final match of the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup, an association football tournament hosted by Japan. It was the 13th final of the FIFA Club World Cup, a FIFA-organised tournament between the winners of the six continental confederations, as well as the host nation's league champions. The final was contested between Spanish club Real Madrid, representing UEFA as the reigning champions of the UEFA Champions League, and Japanese club Kashima Antlers, representing the host country as the reigning champions of the J1 League. It was the first time a team from Asia played in the final. The match was played at the International Stadium Yokohama in Yokohama on 18 December 2016.

2016 Indian Super League final

The 2016 Indian Super League final was a football match between ATK and Kerala Blasters on 18 December 2016 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi, Kerala. It was the final match of the 2016 Indian Super League, the third season of the Indian Super League.[1] The match was the second time these two teams played against each other in the Indian Super League final, the previous one was when both sides met in the inaugural 2014 final.

Qandala campaign

The Qandala campaign began when the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS) attacked and captured the town of Qandala in Bari, Puntland, Somalia on 26 October 2016. This takeover resulted in the displacement of over 25,700 civilians and an eventual counter-offensive by the Puntland Security Force, which succeeded in driving ISS from Qandala on 7 December, and thereafter government units continued to attack the militants' hideouts in the nearby mountains until 18 December.

This entry records the event's end date, as given in the source infobox.

Somalia

2017 Washington train derailment

On December 18, 2017, Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derailed near DuPont, Washington, United States. The National Transportation Safety Board's (NTSB) final report said regional transit authority Sound Transit failed to take steps to mitigate a curve at the accident location and inadequately trained the train engineer.

United States

2017 Nevis Island Assembly election

Island Assembly elections were held in Nevis on 18 December 2017 to elect five members of the Nevis Island Assembly. The result was a win for the Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM), led by Mark Brantley, which won four of the five seats. The opposition Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) won one seat.

2018 Corpus Christi mayoral election

The 2018 Corpus Christi mayoral election was held on November 6, 2018, and December 18, 2018, to elect the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas. The general election, held on November 6, 2018, did not produce a winner (elections for the mayoralty of Corpus Christi require a majority); therefore, a runoff was required and held on December 18, 2018.

This entry records the runoff, as dated in the source infobox.

2020 Ms. Olympia

The 2020 Ms. Olympia was an IFBB Pro League professional female bodybuilding contest and part of Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend 2020. It was the 36th Ms. Olympia competition held.

2021 Sarawak state election

The 2021 Sarawak state election, formally the 12th Sarawak general election, took place on 18 December 2021. This election was to elect 82 members of the 19th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly. The previous assembly was dissolved on 3 November 2021. As the previous assembly first sat on 7 June 2016, it was originally set to be dissolved automatically on 7 June 2021.

Sarawak, Malaysia

Throwback Throwdown II

Throwback Throwdown II was the second annual Throwback Throwdown professional wrestling event produced by Impact Wrestling that aired on Impact Plus and YouTube. It took place on December 18, 2021, at Davis Arena in Louisville, Kentucky, the home base of Impact's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), whose talent was also featured on the card.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

2021 Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional

On December 18, 2021, River Plate defeated Colón 4–0 in the Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional at the Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades in Santiago del Estero, Argentina.

Argentina

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Daukaus (also known as UFC Fight Night 199, UFC on ESPN+ 57 and UFC Vegas 45) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on December 18, 2021 at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.

Nevada, United States

2021 FIFA Arab Cup final

The 2021 FIFA Arab Cup final was a football match which determined the winners of the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup. The match was held at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar on 18 December 2021 and was contested by Tunisia and Algeria, the winners of the semi-finals.

Qatar

2022 FIFA World Cup final

The final match of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the 22nd edition of FIFA's competition for men's national football teams, was played at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, on 18 December 2022 (Qatari National Day), and was contested by Argentina and defending champions France. With a record 1.5 billion people watching on television, the final became one of the most widely watched televised sporting events in history.

Qatar

2022 Hong Kong Election Committee (constituency) by-election

A by-election was held for the Election Committee constituency in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong on 18 December 2022 after resignation of four Legislative Councillors appointed to the new government led by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu.

Hong Kong

Operation Prosperity Guardian

Operation Prosperity Guardian was a United States-led military operation by a multinational coalition formed in December 2023 to respond to Houthi-led attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. Following the breakout of the Gaza war in October 2023, the Houthi movement in Yemen launched a series of attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea, including but not limited to those heading or related to Israel, with the stated purpose of preventing the bombing of Gaza and forcing Israel to let food and medicine into the strip. On 18 December 2023, U.S.

Yemen

2024 Ceann Comhairle election

The 2024 election of the Ceann Comhairle took place on 18 December 2024 at the commencement of the 34th Dáil. It was the third election to be performed by secret ballot. Verona Murphy was elected to the position, the first woman to become Ceann Comhairle.

Ireland

2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup final

The 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup final, also known simply as the 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup, was the final match of the 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup, an international club football tournament. It was the first final of the FIFA Intercontinental Cup, a FIFA-organised tournament between the club champions from each of the six continental confederations. The match took place at Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, on 18 December 2024 between Spanish club Real Madrid, the winners of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, and Mexican club Pachuca, the winners of play-offs contested by the other five confederations.

Qatar

2024 Lethbridge-West provincial by-election

The 2024 Lethbridge-West provincial by-election was held on December 18, 2024 following the resignation of New Democratic Party (NDP) member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Shannon Phillips. The NDP successfully held onto the seat.