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1994 Republicans regain control of US Congress. 
1994 Garson Romalis, abortion doctor, killed (no arrests).
1995 Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40
1996 Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89.
2005 French President Jacques Chirac declares a state of emergency on the 12th day of the French civil unrest, see 205 civil unrest in France.
2006 A transit of Mercury occurs
2006 Margaret Chan is elected as the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
2006 U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld steps down; President Bush nominates Robert Gates, a former Central Intelligence Agency director, as his replacement. Gates is then confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn in on dec 18
2007 The 8th annual Latin Grammy Awards were held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center at Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA, near Las Vegas
2011 The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324600 kilometres or 201700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976
2013 11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2014 Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
2017 UK Minister Priti Patel steps down after secret meetings revealed with Israeli officials.
2017 Louvre Abu Dhabi is inaugurated, largest art museum on Arabian peninsula.
2017 In unprecedented move, Indian officials close all Delhi schools for rest of the week due to smog.
2018 Mass grave of 200 people discovered on border of Somali and Oromia regions, Ethiopia, in investigation into atrocities by former regional president Abdi Mohammed.
2018 Virtual newsreader unveiled by China's state news agency Xinhua News, able to work 24 hours a day
2018 Authorities report more than 150 people have been killed in week-long assault by government forces on port of Hudaydah in Yemen
2018 Azerbaijan woman who spent £16m in Harrods granted bail in UK after being arrested for suspested embezzlement under new laws
2018 CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's White House clearance revoked after continuing to question President Donald Trump while an intern tried to wrestle the microphone off him.
2018 In this year, Deadliest fire in Californian history, the Camp Fire starts at Plumas National Forest spreads in Butte County destroying town of Paradise, more than 13000 buildings and killing at least 88
2018 In this year, Woolsey Fire starts near Thousand Oaks, California with Malibu and Calabasas evacuated, results in the deaths of three.
2018 Qatar delivers $15 million in cash to pay civil servants in Gaza after earlier sending fuel to increase electricity from 4 to 8 hours a day
2018 The Camp Fire ignites in Butte County, California. It is recorded as becoming California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire, with 88 deaths and 18804 buildings destroyed.
2020 Kamala Harris makes US history as the 1st woman and 1st woman of color to be elected to the vice presidency (date election called).
2020 inaugural test of a high-speed levitating pod system to carry people and cargo, by Richard Branson 's Virgin Hyperloop in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2020 Rudy Giuliani holds infamous Trump Campaign press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia to contest the US election results.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 50 million worldwide
2023 57th Country Music Association Awards: Lainey Wilson, Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman win
2025 magnitude 7.5 earthquake off of Japan's northeast coast leads to building damage and triggers a brief tsunami warning
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