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2019  The Dutch Supreme Court affirms that the Dutch government is responsible for management of carbon dioxide emissions for the country and is bound to protect human rights. The ruling reiterated from the Court of Appeals is that "every country is responsible for its share" of emissions.December 23 - Five men are sentenced to death and another three face 24 years in prison for their roles in the murder of dissident journalist and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul   

2020  [COVID-19 pandemic] A highly infectious new strain of SARS-CoV-2 spreading in Europe and Australia provokes international border closures.   

2023  Democratic Republic of the Congo general election: Provisional results showed incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi with a sizable lead over his rivals.   

2024  Five people are killed, while another 235 are injured, after a car is driven into a crowd at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany   

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1494  Oronce finé: French mathematician   

1537  King john iii of sweden: King john iii of sweden (d. 1592)   

1539  Paul melissus [paul schede]: German poet/composer   

1566  Edward wightman: English baptist preacher   

1579  John fletcher: Elizabethan dramatist (phylaster) (baptized)   

1594  Giovanni battista gagliano: Composer   

1606  Christoph schultze: Composer   

1626  Veit ludwig von seckendorff: German statesman   

0069  Aulus vitellius: Roman commandant of rhine & 7th emperor, murdered   

0217  Pope zephyrinus: Pope zephyrinus   

0860  King ethelbald of wessex: King ethelbald of wessex   

0910  Alfonso iii de great: King of asturias,   

1022  Elvira mendes: Wife of alfonso v of castile (b. 996)   

1073  Domingo: Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint,   

1355  Stefanus ix uros iv dusan: King (1331-46)/serbia (1346-55),   

1494  Matteo maria boiardo: Italian poet