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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day" title="World AIDS Day">World AIDS Day</a></b>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Union_Day" title="Great Union Day">Great Union Day</a></b> in Romania (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1828" title="1828">1828</a> – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisplatine_War" title="Cisplatine War">Cisplatine War</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Lavalle" title="Juan Lavalle">Juan Lavalle</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolution_(Argentina)" title="Decembrist revolution (Argentina)">deposed</a></b> provincial governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Dorrego" title="Manuel Dorrego">Manuel Dorrego</a>, reigniting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Civil_Wars" title="Argentine Civil Wars">Argentine Civil Wars</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – With the signing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%E2%80%93Icelandic_Act_of_Union" title="Danish–Icelandic Act of Union">Act of Union</a>, Denmark recognized the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iceland" title="Kingdom of Iceland">Kingdom of Iceland</a></b> as a fully sovereign state in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union" title="Personal union">personal union</a> through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_X_of_Denmark" title="Christian X of Denmark">a common monarch</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleno_Dam" title="Gleno Dam">Gleno Dam</a></b> in the Italian province of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Bergamo" title="Province of Bergamo">Bergamo</a> failed due to poor workmanship, flooding the downstream valley and killing at least 356 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971" title="1971">1971</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_Spring" title="Croatian Spring">A period of political and economic reforms</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Croatia" title="Socialist Republic of Croatia">Socialist Republic of Croatia</a> came to an end as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Communists_of_Yugoslavia" title="League of Communists of Yugoslavia">League of Communists of Yugoslavia</a> decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988" title="1988">1988</a> – Five armed men <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Ordzhonikidze_bus_hijacking" title="1988 Ordzhonikidze bus hijacking">hijacked a bus</a></b> carrying schoolchildren and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladikavkaz" title="Vladikavkaz">Vladikavkaz</a>, Russia), and were later given an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-76" title="Ilyushin Il-76">Ilyushin <span class="nowrap">Il-76</span></a> aircraft and ransom for the release of the hostages.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eligius" title="Saint Eligius">Saint Eligius</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 660); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heinrich_Klaproth" title="Martin Heinrich Klaproth">Martin Heinrich Klaproth</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1743); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tussaud" title="Marie Tussaud">Marie Tussaud</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1761); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masao_Horiba" title="Masao Horiba">Masao Horiba</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1924)</p>