Forward Planner: News Anniversaries for the next 6 months
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December 2024
1 Year (2023)
Dec 22: 2023 Israel–Hamas war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 20,000, almost 1 percent of its population and surpassing the casualties in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Dec 29: Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia launches the largest wave of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities since the start of the war in a overnight assault, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 160 others. Ukraine launches a drone assault the following day, killing at least 21 people, including three children, and injuring 110 others, including 17 children.
2 Years (2022)
Dec 02: The G7 and Australia join the EU in imposing a cap of $60 a barrel on Russian crude oil, designed to "prevent Russia from profiting from its war of aggression against Ukraine”.
Dec 19: At the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), nearly 200 countries agree a landmark deal to protect a third of the planet for nature by 2030.
Dec 23: Death - George Cohen, English footballer (b. 1939) was an English professional footballer who played as a right-back. He spent his entire professional career with Fulham, and won the 1966 World Cup with England.
Dec 31: Death - Pope Benedict XVI (b. 1927)
5 Years (2019)
Dec 12: United Kingdom - The 2019 general election takes place for all 650 seats in the House of Commons.
Dec 18: U.S. President Trump is impeached.
10 Years (2014)
Dec 01: Former UK PM Gordon Brown announces standing down at next election.
Dec 01: Suffolk doctor Myles Bradbury jailed for abusing 18 young cancer patients in his care.
Dec 01: Suffolk dr Myles Bradbury jailed for abusing 18 young cancer patients in his care.
Dec 03: UK: Changes to Stamp Duty announced by Chancellor George Osbourne in Autumn Statement
Dec 04: Death of former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe aged 85.
Dec 12: Major disruption caused by computer systrem failure at UK air traffic control centre.
Dec 13: UK: MP Jim Murphy elected new leader of Scottish Labour Party.
Dec 17: UK: 1st C of E female bishop, Libby Lane, appointed Bishop of Stockport.
Dec 17: US President Obama announces resumption of normal relations with Cuba.
Dec 18: Death of model Mandy Rice-Davies aged 70 ('Profumo Affair').
Dec 19: High Court judge orders winding up of Hereford Utd Football Club over unpaid tax.
Dec 21: Death British TV, stage & film actress Billie Whitelaw, 82 ('Charlie Bubbles','The Omen').
Dec 21: Death UK stage TV & film actress Billie Whitelaw, 82 ('Charlie Bubbles','The Omen').
Dec 25: UK Parcel delivery firm City Link announces it has gone into administration.
Dec 29: UK: Healthcare worker back from Sierra Leone being treated for Ebola, Glasgow
15 Years (2009)
Dec 16: ITV closes Teletext, its news & information service.
Dec 18: Irish broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan presents final breakfast show on BBC Radio 2.
20 Years (2004)
Dec 07: Hamid Karzai sworn in as President of Afghanistan.
Dec 15: UK Home Secretary David Blunkett resigns over passport scandal for ex-lover's nanny.
Dec 23: Largest bank robbery in UK. £26m taken from Northern Bank, Belfast.
Dec 26: Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunami. Estimated 230,000 killed in 14 countries.
25 Years (1999)
Dec 02: UK devolves power in Northern Ireland to Northern Ireland Assembly.
Dec 30: Former Beatles guitarist George Harrison stabbed by intruder at home.
Dec 31: Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigns. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin takes over.
30 Years (1994)
Dec 24: Death of British playwright John Osborne ('Look Back In Anger').
Dec 30: Death of Maureen Starkey, 1st wife of Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr, aged 48.
35 Years (1989)
Dec 01: Mikhail Gorbachev 1st Soviet leader to visit Vatican & meet The Pope.
Dec 03: End of Communist rule in East Germany.
Dec 03: US President Bush & Soviet leader Gorbachev announce end of the 'Cold War'.
Dec 17: Fox Network in USA broadcasts 1st episode of cartoon series 'The Simpsons'.
Dec 22: Re-opening of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin re-uniting East & West Germany.
Dec 22: Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauscescu overthrown in a coup.
40 Years (1984)
Dec 03: Bhopal Disaster, India. Thousands killed by leak at Union Carbide pesticide plant.
Dec 19: Ted Hughes appointed Britain's latest Poet Laureate.
Dec 28: Death of US film director Sam Peckinpah ('The Wild Bunch', 'Straw Dogs').
50 Years (1974)
Dec 08: Greek Referendum votes to remain a Republic and abolish the monarchy.
Dec 22: IRA bombs home of former Prime Minister Edward Heath.
60 Years (1964)
Dec 11: American soul singer Sam Cooke shot & killed.
Dec 12: Kenya declares itself a Republic with Jomo Kenyatta its first President.
Dec 31: British driver Donald Campbell breaks water speed record.
80 Years (1944)
Dec 03: WW2: British Home Guard officially stood down as invasion threat no longer exists.
Dec 15: Death of American band leader Glenn Miller. Plane disappears over English Channel.
Dec 15: Death of US band leader Glenn Miller. Plane disappears over English Channel.
Dec 31: WW2: Hungary declares war on Germany.
85 Years (1939)
Dec 12: Death of American film actor Douglas Fairbanks Snr.
Dec 13: WW2: Battle of the River Plate in South Atlantic.
Dec 14: WW2: Soviet Union expelled from League of Nations for attacking Finland.
Dec 15: World film premiere of film epic 'Gone With The Wind' in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Dec 15: World film premiere of 'Gone With The Wind'.
105 Years (1919)
Dec 01: UK: Lady Astor sworn in as 1st woman MP in House of Commons.
110 Years (1914)
Dec 10: Birth of American film actress Dorothy Lamour.
Dec 16: WW1: German battleships shell UK coastal towns of Hartlepool & Scarborough.
Dec 21: WW1: 1st German air raid on Britain with a bomb dropped on Dover.
Dec 24: WW1: Unofficial Christmas truce between soldiers along sections of Western Front.
120 Years (1904)
Dec 07: Birth of US voice actor Clarence Nash (voice of cartoon character 'Donald Duck').
125 Years (1899)
Dec 25: Birth US film actor Humphrey Bogart ('Casablanca', 'African Queen', 'Ther Big Sleep').
145 Years (1879)
Dec 05: Birth of US aviation pioneer Clyde Cessna (Cessna Aeroplane Company).
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