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1582 - France introduced the Gregorian calendar by skipping 10 days, and counting the day on December 9 as December 20.
1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery sets sail from England to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1955 - Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales
1977 - 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
International Human Solidarity Day
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1842 - US recognizes independence of Hawaii
1919 - American Meteorological Society found
1963 - Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
1972 - The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17; crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt returns to Earth, accomplishing; Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" - they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon. (The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.)
St. Nikola, Orthodox holiday
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1642 - Abel Tasman sails around Farewell Spit and into Golden Bay, first sighting local Māori and becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
1828 - Strong earthquake devastated the Japanese city of Nagaoka, killing 30,000 people.
1865 - Slavery was abolished in the United States.
1958 - 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip.
1958 - Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
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1577 - Sir Francis Drake sails fromm Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
1790 - Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1993 - Finland recognized the Republic of Macedonia.
2005 - Macedonia got a candidate status for membership of the European Union.
Kazakhstan Independence Day
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1497 - Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
1631 - Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
1707 - Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
1857 - Earthquake in Naples, Italy
1920 - 8.5 earthquake rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000
Victory day of Bangladesh