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| 218 BC – The Carthaginian forces of Hannibal defeated the Roman Republic at the Battle of the Trebia, the first major battle of the Second Punic War, along the Trebbia River in present-day Italy. | Need to verify date |
| 1271 – Mongol ruler Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty in present-day Mongolia and China. | {{cleanup}} |
| 1916 – The French defeated German forces around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France, ending the longest battle and one of the bloodiest in World War I. | needs more footnotes |
| 1932 – Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium in Chicago on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans, 9–0, in the first ever playoff game held by the National Football League. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1990 – The Migrant Workers Convention was signed at the United Nations enhancing the protection for migrant workers. | {{refimprove}} |
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- 1958 – The United States launched SCORE, the world's first communications satellite.
- 1966 – Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken as Janus. It took 12 years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
- 1996 – The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African American Vernacular English as a separate language or dialect.
- 2009 – The Copenhagen Summit on climate change ended with the drafting of the non-binding Copenhagen Accord.
December 18: Republic Day in Niger (1958); National Day in Qatar (1878)
- 1892 – The first performance of the fairy tale-ballet The Nutcracker was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1912 – Amateur archaeologist Charles Dawson announced the discovery of fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human, known as Piltdown Man, which later turned out to be a hoax.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: The United States began Operation Linebacker II against North Vietnam, the largest heavy bomber strikes launched by the U.S. Air Force since the end of World War II.
- 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.
- 2006 – The first of a series of floods (pictured) struck Malaysia, which would eventually kill 118 people and leave over 400,000 others homeless.
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