This is a list of selected December 12 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Oaks Colliery explosion
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Kenya (1963) | refimprove section |
| Feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Catholicism); | lots of unreferenced |
| 1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo was sunk in the Yazoo River, the first armored ship sunk by a naval mine. | refimprove section |
| 1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city of Brazil, was inaugurated as Cidade de Minas. | cleanup required, expansion, refimprove |
| 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic radio signal, from Poldhu Wireless Station in Cornwall, England, to Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland. | refimprove section |
| 1911 – The final Delhi Durbar, a mass assembly at Coronation Park to mark the succession of an emperor or empress of India, took place. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1915 – President Yuan Shikai of the Republic of China reinstated the monarchy and declared himself Emperor. | refimprove section |
| 1935 – The Nazi Lebensborn programme, which was later mistakenly believed to engage in coercive breeding, was established to provide assistance to the wives of SS members and unmarried mothers. | Too much uncited |
| 1918 – The flag of Estonia was raised for the first time atop the Pikk Hermann in Tallinn. | refimprove section |
| 1937 – Japanese aircraft attacked and sank USS Panay while it was anchored in the Yangtze. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – The Irish Republican Army began its border campaign, a guerrilla campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland. | refimprove section |
| Yasujirō Ozu |bd|1903; 1963| | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 1388 – Unable to defend her possessions, Maria of Enghien sold the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.
- 1866 – England's worst mining disaster occurred when a series of explosions (depicted) caused by flammable gases ripped through the Oaks Colliery, killing 361 people.
- 1905 – In support of the December Uprising in Moscow, the Council of Workers' Deputies of Kyiv staged a mass uprising, establishing the Shuliavka Republic in the city.
- 1939 – The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duchess collided with HMS Barham, the battleship she was escorting, sinking with heavy loss of life.
- 1941 – The Holocaust: At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish people.
- 1942 – World War II: German troops began Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
- 1964 – Jomo Kenyatta became the first president of the Republic of Kenya.
- 1969 – The Greek junta announced its withdrawal from the Council of Europe after the junta was found guilty of torture and other human-rights violations by the European Commission of Human Rights.
- 1979 – A Mw8.2 earthquake struck just offshore of Tumaco, Colombia, causing at least 300 deaths, mostly by the resulting tsunami.
- 1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285R crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, killing 256 people, including 248 members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.
- 2012 – North Korea made its first successful satellite launch, as Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 reached orbit.
- Born/died: | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood |b|1724| Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke |d|1751| Johann Christoph Gottsched |d|1766| Gustave Flaubert |b|1821| Henrietta Swan Leavitt |d|1921| Doris Blackburn |d|1970| Evelyn S. Lieberman |d|2015|
December 12: Beginning of the Yule Lads' arrival in Iceland
- 627 – A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrow II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh, near present-day Mosul, Iraq.
- 1936 – Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China was kidnapped by Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, a former warlord of Manchuria.
- 1988 – Three trains collided near Clapham Junction railway station in London, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.
- 2000 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped, effectively making George W. Bush (pictured) the winner.
- 2021 – At the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Max Verstappen overtook Lewis Hamilton on the final lap to become the World Drivers' Champion.
- Geoffrey (d. 1212)
- Edvard Munch (b. 1863)
- Ikuhiko Hata (b. 1932)
- Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi (d. 2021)