Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 12
December 12: Independence Day in Kenya (1963)
- 1531 - The Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin saw the Virgin Mary outside of modern-day Mexico City.
- 1901 - Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, from Poldhu, England to St. John's, Newfoundland.
- 1915 - President Yuan Shikai of the Republic of China reinstated monarchy and declared himself emperor.
- 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its 5-4 decision in Bush v. Gore, ordering that the Florida Recount of the ballots in the 2000 presidential election stop.
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