Also on December 12
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Jamhuri Day (KE)
✡️ Religious Observances
- Jewish: Chanukah: 8th Day חנוכה: יום ח׳ holiday
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2012 — North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket. ↗
- 2001 — Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park,... ↗
- 2000 — The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore. ↗
- 1991 — The Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR. ↗
- 1988 — The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1996 — Lachlan Croker, Australian rugby league player
- 1994 — Mitchell Pinnock, English footballer
- 1994 — Otto Warmbier, American student imprisoned in North Korea (d. 2017)
- 1993 — Zeli Ismail, English footballer
- 1991 — Joseph Leilua, Australian-Samoan rugby league player