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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_(Qatar)" title="National Day (Qatar)">National Day</a></b> in Qatar (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1878" title="1878">1878</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1622" title="1622">1622</a> – Portuguese forces and their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbangala" title="Imbangala">Imbangala</a> allies defeated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo" title="Kingdom of Kongo">Kongo</a> army at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mbumbi" title="Battle of Mbumbi">Battle of Mbumbi</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932" title="1932">1932</a> – Playing indoors at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Stadium" title="Chicago Stadium">Chicago Stadium</a> on a modified <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> field, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bears" title="Chicago Bears">Chicago Bears</a> defeated the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Spartans" title="Portsmouth Spartans">Portsmouth Spartans</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_NFL_Playoff_Game" title="1932 NFL Playoff Game">the first playoff game</a></b> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958" title="1958">1958</a> – The United States launched <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORE_(satellite)" title="SCORE (satellite)">SCORE</a></b>, the world's first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_satellite" title="Communications satellite">communications satellite</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963" title="1963">1963</a> – Ghanaian and other African students organized <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Moscow_protest" title="1963 Moscow protest">a protest</a></b> in Moscow's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Square" title="Red Square">Red Square</a> in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017" title="2017">2017</a> – An <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak_Cascades" title="Amtrak Cascades">Amtrak <i>Cascades</i></a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment" title="2017 Washington train derailment">passenger train derailed</a></b> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont,_Washington" title="DuPont, Washington">DuPont, Washington</a>, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaonian_Yanmujin" title="Yaonian Yanmujin">Yaonian Yanmujin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 933); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_of_Wessex" title="Edith of Wessex">Edith of Wessex</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1075); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ty_Cobb" title="Ty Cobb">Ty Cobb</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1886); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Richards" title="Keith Richards">Keith Richards</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1943)</p>
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