HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men. Date: December 12, 1939 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1939 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery. Date: December 12, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed. Date: December 12, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1941 📅 On This Day (Today)
The People's Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea. Date: December 12, 1945 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1945 📅 On This Day (Today)
United Nations Security Council Resolution 13 relating to acceptance of Siam (now Thailand) to the United Nations is adopted. Date: December 12, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today)
United Nations Security Council Resolution 121 relating to acceptance of Japan to the United Nations is adopted. Date: December 12, 1956 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1956 📅 On This Day (Today)
Kenya declares independence from Great Britain. Date: December 12, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three more bombs are detonated in Rome and Milan, and another is found unexploded. Date: December 12, 1969 Read more on Wikipedia…
Coup d'état of December Twelfth occurs in South Korea. Date: December 12, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today)
The 8.2 Mw Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami. Date: December 12, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 12 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today)