Events
- 43 BC - Roman philosopher, lawyer an politeecian Cicero is assassinatit.
- 1787 - Delaware becomes the 1st state tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
- 1916 - David Lloyd George becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1917 - Warld War I: The Unitit States declares war on Austrick-Hungary.
- 1941 - Warld War II: Japanese forces cairy oot a major attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the hame o the American Paceefic fleet.
- 1943 - Lebanon gets its current banner.
- 1970 - Wast German Chancellor Willy Brandt sinks tae his knees at the War memorial in Warsaw, Poland in a sign o reconciliation.
- 1972 - Filipina First Lady Imelda Marcos survives an assassination attempt.
- 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Muin mission tae-date, launches - The Blue marble photograph o the Yird is taken.
- 1975 - Indonesie forces occupy East Timor.
- 1983 - A plane collision at Madrid's Barajas Airport kills 93 fowk.
- 1988 - Spitak, Armenie (then-pairt o the Soviet Union) is hit bi a major yirdquauk, killin 25,000 fowk.
- 1995 - The "Galileo" spacecraft arrives at the planet Jupiter.
- 2003 - The Conservative Pairty o Canadae is offeecially creatit.
- 2009 - Climate chynge talks stairt in Copenhagen.
- 2016 - The Indonesie province o Aceh (on Sumatra) is hit bi a yirdquauk, killin ower 100 fowk.
- 2017 - Australie legalises same-sex mairage.
