Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 12
This is a list of selected December 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Clearing up the Clapham Junction rail crash
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, was inaugurated as Cidade de Minas. | refimprove section |
| 1918 – The Flag of Estonia was raised for the first time atop the Pikk Hermann in Tallinn. | refimprove section |
| 1936 – Chiang Kai-shek, the Generalissimo of the Republic of China, was kidnapped by Marshal Zhang Xueliang, a former warlord of Manchuria. | refimprove |
| 1937 – Japanese aircraft attacked and sank the USS Panay while it was anchored in the Yangtze. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 627 – A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh, near present-day Mosul, Iraq.
- 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu Wireless Station in Cornwall, England, to Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland.
- 1939 – The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duchess collided with the battleship HMS Barham she was escorting and sank with heavy loss of life.
- 1941 – At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish race.
- 1942 – World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1956 – The Irish Republican Army began its Border Campaign, a guerrilla campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland.
- 1964 – Jomo Kenyatta became the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
- 1988 – Three trains collided near Clapham Junction railway station in London killing 35 people and injuring 500.
- 2000 – The US Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the election recount of the ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election must stop, effectively making George W. Bush the winner.
December 12: Independence Day in Kenya (1963); Yule Lads begin arrival in Iceland
- 1531 – According to traditional Catholic accounts, the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary miraculously appeared imprinted on Juan Diego's tilma.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The USS Cairo was sunk in the Yazoo River, the first armored ship sunk by a naval mine.
- 1915 – President Yuan Shikai (pictured) of the Republic of China reinstated the monarchy and declared himself Emperor.
- 1935 – The Nazi Lebensborn programme, which was later mistakenly believed to engage in coercive breeding, was established to provide assistance to the wives of SS members and unmarried mothers.
- 1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, killing 256, including 248 members of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division.