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December 18: National Day in Qatar (1878) Atlas rocket carrying SCORE 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi. 1932 – Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League. 1958 – The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite. 1963 – Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo. 2017 – An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others. Yaonian Yanmujin (d. 933) Edith of Wessex (d. 1075) Ty Cobb (b. 1886) Keith Richards (b. 1943) More anniversaries: December 17 December 18 December 19