{"id":23343,"date":"2023-12-18T06:45:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23343"},"modified":"2023-12-15T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:00:22","slug":"history-of-18-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-18-december\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 18 December"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1996 &#8211; Despite a U.N. truce, factional fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, broke out in which at least 300 fighters and civilians were killed.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House of Representatives began the debate on the four articles of impeachment concerning\u00a0U.S. President Bill Clinton. It was only the second time in\u00a0U.S.\u00a0history that process had begun.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211; Russia recalled its\u00a0U.S.\u00a0ambassador in protest of the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0attacks on Iraq.<\/li>\r\n<li>1998 &#8211;\u00a0South Carolina\u00a0proceeded with the\u00a0U.S.&#8217; 500th execution since capital punishment was restored.<\/li>\r\n<li>1999 &#8211; After living atop an ancient redwood in Humboldt County,\u00a0CA, for two years, environmental activist Julia &#8220;Butterfly&#8221; Hill came down, ending her anti-logging protest.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; Mark Oliver Gebel, a Ringling Bros. Circus star, went on trial for animal abuse. The charges stemmed from an incident with an elephant that was marching too slowly into a circus performance on August 25, 2001. He was acquitted on December 21, 2001.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; A fire damaged New York City&#8217;s St. John Cathedral. The cathedral is the largest in the\u00a0United States.<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 &#8211; In Seattle,\u00a0WA, Gary Leon Ridgeway pled innocent to the charge of murder for four of the Green River serial killings. He had been arrested on November 30, 2001.<\/li>\r\n<li>2002 &#8211; Nine competing designs for the World Trade Center site were unveiled. The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. expected to choose a design by January 31, 2003.<\/li>\r\n<li>2003 &#8211; Adam Rich was arrested for driving onto a closed section of Interstate 10 and nearly struck a California Highway Patrol car.<\/li>\r\n<li>2009 &#8211; General Motors announced that it would shut down its Saab brand.<\/li>\r\n<li>2009 &#8211; A Paris court ruled that Google was breaking French law with its policy of digitizing books and fined the company a $14,300-a-day fine until it rids its search engine of the literary extracts.<\/li>\r\n<li>2009 &#8211; James Cameron&#8217;s movie &#8220;Avatar&#8221; was released in the United States. On January 26, the movie became the highest-grossing film worldwide.<\/li>\r\n<li>2010 &#8211; In Nanjing, China, the Zifeng Tower opened.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>2015\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kellingley Colliery, the last deep\u00a0coal mine\u00a0in\u00a0Great Britain, closes.<\/li>\r\n<li>2017\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Amtrak Cascades\u00a0passenger train 501, derailed near\u00a0DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near\u00a0Olympia, Washington\u00a0killing six people, and injuring 70 others.<\/li>\r\n<li>2018\u00a0\u2013\u00a0List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.<\/li>\r\n<li>2019 \u2013 The United States House of Representatives votes in support of the impeachment of Donald Trump.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Paul Harrison, English footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Giuliano Razzoli, Italian skier<\/li>\r\n<li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Hamelin, Canadian speed skater<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian cricketer<\/li>\r\n<li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Bill Stull, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ayaka, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater<\/li>\r\n<li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Yuki Furukawa, Japanese actor<\/li>\r\n<li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Seth Doege, American football player<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete<\/li>\r\n<li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer<\/li>\r\n<li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter<\/li>\r\n<li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Marcus Butler, English internet celebrity<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013 Bridgit Mendler, American singer, songwriter and actress<\/li>\r\n<li>1992 \u2013\u00a0Ryan Crouser, American shot putter<\/li>\r\n<li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Byron Buxton, American baseball player<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 \u2013\u00a0Ana Porgras, Romanian former artistic gymnast<\/li>\r\n<li>1993 \u2013\u00a0Thomas Lam, Finnish professional football defender<\/li>\r\n<li>1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nat\u00e1lia Kelly, American-Austrian singer<\/li>\r\n<li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Gerard Gumbau, Spanish professional footballer<\/li>\r\n<li>2001 \u2013 Billie Eilish, American singer<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1996 &#8211; Despite a U.N. truce, factional fighting in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, broke out in which at least 300 fighters and civilians were killed. 1998 &#8211; The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House of Representatives began the debate on the four articles of impeachment concerning\u00a0U.S. President Bill Clinton. It was only the second time in\u00a0U.S.\u00a0history that process had begun. 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