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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_12" title="December 12">December 12</a></b>: Beginning of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Christmas_folklore#Yule_lads" title="Icelandic Christmas folklore">Yule Lads</a></b><span class="nowrap">'</span> arrival in Iceland
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1388" title="1388">1388</a> – Unable to defend her possessions, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_of_Enghien" title="Maria of Enghien">Maria of Enghien</a> sold the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordship_of_Argos_and_Nauplia" title="Lordship of Argos and Nauplia">lordship of Argos and Nauplia</a></b> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Venice" title="Republic of Venice">Republic of Venice</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1866" title="1866">1866</a> – England's worst mining disaster occurred when <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaks_explosion" title="Oaks explosion">a series of explosions</a></b> <i>(depicted)</i> caused by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firedamp" title="Firedamp">flammable gases</a> ripped through the Oaks Colliery, killing 361 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905" title="1905">1905</a> – In support of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_uprising_of_1905" title="Moscow uprising of 1905">December Uprising</a> in Moscow, the Council of Workers' Deputies of Kyiv staged a mass uprising, establishing the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuliavka_Republic" title="Shuliavka Republic">Shuliavka Republic</a></b> in the city.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941" title="1941">1941</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a>: At <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Chancellery_meeting_of_12_December_1941" title="Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941">a Nazi Party meeting</a></b> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Chancellery" title="Reich Chancellery">Reich Chancellery</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> declared the imminent destruction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews">Jewish</a> people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985" title="1985">1985</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Air_Flight_1285R" title="Arrow Air Flight 1285R">Arrow Air Flight 1285R</a></b> crashed after takeoff in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gander_International_Airport" title="Gander International Airport">Gander</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="Newfoundland and Labrador">Newfoundland</a>, Canada, killing 256 people, including 248 members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101st_Airborne_Division" title="101st Airborne Division">101st Airborne Division</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Gottsched" title="Johann Christoph Gottsched">Johann Christoph Gottsched</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1766); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert" title="Gustave Flaubert">Gustave Flaubert</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1821); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt" title="Henrietta Swan Leavitt">Henrietta Swan Leavitt</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1921)</p>
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