Editing December 22 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 69]] &ndash; [[Vespasian]] is proclaimed [[Roman emperor|Emperor of Rome]]; his predecessor, [[Vitellius]], attempts to abdicate but is captured and killed at the [[Gemonian stairs]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Nabil|title=A Brief History of Patriarchs Coptic Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byuYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA19|publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform|pages=19}}</ref>
* [[401]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent I]] is elected, the only pope to succeed his father in the office.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/64800 | title =Sant' Innocenzo I | last =Prevato | first =Franco | date =2003-08-27 | website =Santi Beati e Testimoni | language =it| access-date =20 December 2020}}</ref>
* [[856]] &ndash; [[856 Damghan earthquake|Damghan earthquake]]: An earthquake near the Persian city of [[Damghan]] kills an estimated 200,000 people, the sixth deadliest earthquake in recorded history.<ref>{{cite book|first=Simon|last=Ross|title=Natural Hazards|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JKTDenQB5nAC&pg=PA11|year=1998|publisher=Nelson Thornes|isbn=978-0-7487-3951-6|pages=11}}</ref>
* [[880]] &ndash; [[Luoyang]], eastern capital of the [[Tang dynasty]], is captured by rebel leader [[Huang Chao]] during the reign of [[Emperor Xizong of Tang|Emperor Xizong]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Graff|first=David|title=Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300—900|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|date=2002|isbn=9780415239547|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpmBAgAAQBAJ|page=242}}</ref>
*[[1135]] &ndash; Three weeks after the death of King [[Henry I of England]], [[Stephen, King of England|Stephen of Blois]] claims the throne and is privately crowned [[Monarchy of the United Kingdom|King of England]], beginning the [[The Anarchy|English Anarchy]].<ref>{{cite book|first=C.|last=Petit-Dutaillis|title=The Feudal Monarchy in France and England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vXr5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA100|date=5 November 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-20350-3|pages=100}}</ref>
*[[1216]] &ndash; [[Pope Honorius III]] approves the [[Dominican Order]] through the papal bull of confirmation [[Religiosam vitam]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hinnebusch|first=William A.|title=Dominican Spirituality: Principles and Practice|location=Eugene, Ore.|publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers|date=2014|isbn=9781625644701|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dg9NBQAAQBAJ|page=44}}</ref>
*[[1489]] &ndash; The forces of the [[Catholic Monarchs]], [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand]] and [[Isabella I of Castile|Isabella]], take control of [[Almería]] from the [[Nasrid dynasty|Nasrid]] ruler of [[Emirate of Granada|Granada]], [[Muhammad XIII, Sultan of Granada|Muhammad XIII]].<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Callaghan|first=Joseph F.|title=The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|date=2014|isbn=9780812245875|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o74FAwAAQBAJ|page=180|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Vilá|first=Jacinto Bosch|chapter=Al-Mariyya|title=Encyclopedia of Islam. Vol. IV|editor-last1=Bosworth|editor-first1=C.E.|editor-last2=van Donzel|editor-first2=E.|editor-last3=Heinrichs|editor-first3=W.P.|editor-last4=Pellat|editor-first4=Ch.|location=Leiden|publisher=E.J. Brill|date=1989|isbn=9789004081185|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPsUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA575|page=577}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1769]] &ndash; [[Sino-Burmese War (1765–69)|Sino-Burmese War]]: The war ends with the [[Qing dynasty]] withdrawing from Burma forever.<ref>{{cite book|last=Myint-U|first=Thant|title=The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma|location=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|date=2006|isbn=9780571217595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tsTOKi8l1ywC|page=104}}</ref>
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Nguyễn Huệ]] proclaims himself Emperor Quang Trung, in effect abolishing on his own the [[Lê dynasty]].<ref>{{cite book|title=75 Years of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, 1930-2005: A Selection of Documents from Nine Party Congresses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcmNAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Thế Giới Publishers|page=6}}</ref>
*[[1790]] &ndash; The Turkish fortress of [[Izmail]] is [[Siege of Izmail|stormed and captured]] by [[Alexander Suvorov]] and his Russian armies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tucker|first=Spencer C.|chapter=Leaders: Suvorov, Alexander Vasilievich|title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. Vol. 3: 1775—1860|editor-last=Tucker|editor-first=Spencer C.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2010|isbn=9781851096671|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC|page=863}}</ref>
*[[1807]] &ndash; The [[Embargo Act of 1807|Embargo Act]], forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] at the urging of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Olson|first1=James Stuart|last2=Mendoza|first2=Abraham O.|title=American Economic History: A Dictionary and Chronology|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2015|isbn=9781610696975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SZK5BwAAQBAJ|page=188}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] conducts and performs in [[Beethoven concert of 22 December 1808|concert at the Theater an der Wien]], Vienna, with the premiere of his [[Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)|Fifth Symphony]], [[Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)|Sixth Symphony]], [[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)|Fourth Piano Concerto]] and ''[[Choral Fantasy (Beethoven)|Choral Fantasy]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Broyles|first=Michael|title=Beethoven in America|location=Bloomington, Ind.|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=2011|isbn=9780253357045|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LhqwwuONrgoC|page=41}}</ref>
*[[1851]] &ndash; India's first freight train is operated in [[Roorkee]], to transport material for the construction of the [[Ganges Canal]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mondal|first1=Bhaswati|last2=Samanta|first2=Gopa|title=Mobilities in India: The Experience of Suburban Rail Commuting|location=Cham, Switzerland|publisher=Springer|date=2021|isbn=9783030783495|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nTw6EAAAQBAJ|page=37}}</ref>
*  1851   &ndash; The [[Library of Congress]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], burns.<ref>{{cite web|last1=History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives|title=An 1851 Library of Congress Fire|url=http://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1800-1850/An-1825-Library-of-Congress-fire/|website=United States House of Representatives|access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Savannah, Georgia]], falls to the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union's]] [[Army of the Tennessee]], and General [[William Tecumseh Sherman|Sherman]] tells President [[Abraham Lincoln]]: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah".<ref>{{cite book|last=Reid|first=Brian Holden|title=The Scourge of War: The Life of William Tecumseh Sherman|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2020|isbn=9780195392739|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TyPdDwAAQBAJ|page=371}}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Itō Hirobumi]], a [[samurai]], becomes the first [[Prime Minister of Japan]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Takii|last=Kazuhiro|translator-first=Takechi|translator-last=Manabu|title=Itō Hirobumi Japan's First Prime Minister and Father of the Meiji Constitution|location=London|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-0-41583-886-3|page=52}}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; The [[Christmas Meeting of 1888]], considered to be the official start of the [[Faroese independence movement]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Jóan Pauli|last=Joensen|title=Pilot Whaling in the Faroe Islands: History, Ethnography, Symbol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=25dCtUOd_ZwC&pg=PA198|year=2009|publisher=Faroe University Press|isbn=978-99918-65-25-6|pages=198}}</ref>
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Cornwallis Valley Railway]] begins operation between [[Kentville]] and [[Kingsport, Nova Scotia]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stephens|first=David|title=Railways of Nova Scotia|journal=Journal of Education|date=Spring 1972|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uBJYvb9NekC&q=%2222+December%22|accessdate=22 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; Asteroid [[323 Brucia]] becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.<ref>{{cite book|last=Peebles|first=Curtis|title=Asteroids: A History|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|date=2001|isbn=9781560989820|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RbDkCwAAQBAJ|page=19}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; The [[Dreyfus affair]] begins in France, when [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of [[treason]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Derfler|first=Leslie|title=The Dreyfus Affair|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2002|isbn=9780313317910|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d0iuOozRp1IC|pages=xvii, 1–2}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1906]] &ndash; An {{M|w}} [[1906 Manasi earthquake|7.9 earthquake strikes Xinjiang]], China, killing at least 280.<ref name="CHINA: XINJIANG PROVINCE">{{cite web |title=CHINA: XINJIANG PROVINCE |url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/earthquake/event-more-info/2794 |website=NGDC NCEI |publisher=NCEI |access-date=17 March 2021}}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; The [[GOELRO|GOELRO economic development plan]] is adopted by the 8th [[All-Russian Congress of Soviets|Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR]].
*[[1921]] &ndash; Opening of [[Visva-Bharati College]], also known as [[Santiniketan]] College, now [[Visva-Bharati University|Visva Bharati University]], India.
*[[1937]] &ndash; The [[Lincoln Tunnel]] opens to traffic in New York City.<ref>{{cite book|title=Traffic Engineering|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2qQqpxYBBEkC|year=1936|publisher=Institute of traffic engineers|page=174}}</ref>
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Islam in India|Indian Muslims]] observe a "[[Day of Deliverance (India)|Day of Deliverance]]" to celebrate the resignations of members of the [[Indian National Congress]] over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter [[World War II]] with the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book|title=Reminiscences of the Day of Deliverance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4PAcAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=National Committee for Birth Centenary Celebrations of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan|page=12}}</ref>
*[[1940]] &ndash; World War II: [[Himara]] is captured by the Greek army.
*[[1942]] &ndash; World War II: [[Adolf Hitler]] signs the order to develop the [[V-2 rocket]] as a weapon.
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: [[Battle of the Bulge]]: [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops demand the surrender of United States troops at [[Bastogne]], [[Belgium]], prompting the famous one word reply by General [[Anthony McAuliffe]]: "Nuts!"
*  1944   &ndash; World War II: The [[People's Army of Vietnam]] is formed to resist [[Japanese occupation of French Indochina|Japanese occupation of Indochina]], now [[Vietnam]].
*[[1945]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Harry S. Truman]] issues an [[executive order]] giving [[World War II evacuation and expulsion|World War II refugees]] precedence in visa applications under U.S. immigration quotas.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1945: Key Dates|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/1945-key-dates|access-date=2022-01-17|website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Sjafruddin Prawiranegara]] established the [[Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia]] (''Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia'', PDRI) in [[West Sumatra]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Abdullah |first1=Taufik |title=Indonesia: Towards Democracy |date=2009 |publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |isbn=978-981-230-366-0 |page=574 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c39TDpLki8wC&dq=emergency+government+indonesia+22+december+1948&pg=PA574 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1963]] &ndash; The [[cruise ship]] ''[[TSMS Lakonia|Lakonia]]'' burns {{convert|180|mi|km|order=flip}} north of [[Madeira]], Portugal with the loss of 128 lives.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jay Robert|last=Nash|author-link=Jay Robert Nash|title=Darkest hours: a narrative encyclopedia of worldwide disasters from ancient times to the present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5EYAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Nelson-Hall|isbn=978-0-88229-140-6|page=321}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; The first test flight of the [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71]] (Blackbird) takes place at [[United States Air Force Plant 42|Air Force Plant 42]] in [[Palmdale, California]], United States.
*[[1965]] &ndash; In the United Kingdom, a {{convert|70|mph|km/h}} [[speed limit]] is applied to all rural roads including [[Controlled-access highway|motorway]]s for the first time.
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Cultural Revolution]]: ''[[People's Daily]]'' posted the instructions of [[Mao Zedong]] that "[[Sent-down youth|The intellectual youth]] must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."
*[[1971]] &ndash; The international aid organization [[Médecins Sans Frontières|Doctors Without Borders]] is founded by [[Bernard Kouchner]] and a group of journalists in [[Paris]], [[France]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Médecins Sans Frontières|Doctors Without Borders]]|title=Who We Are|url=https://www.msf.org/who-we-are>|access-date=20 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[1973]] &ndash; A [[Royal Air Maroc]] [[Sud Aviation Caravelle]] [[1973 Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crash|crashes]] near [[Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport|Tangier-Boukhalef Airport]] in [[Tangier]], [[Morocco]], killing 106.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle VI-N OO-SRD Tangier-Boukhalef Airport (TNG)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19731222-1|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-21|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050421080130/http://www.aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19731222-1 |archive-date=2005-04-21 }}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Grande Comore]], [[Anjouan]] and [[Mohéli]] [[1974 Comorian independence referendum|vote]] to become the independent nation of [[Comoros]]. [[Mayotte]] remains under French administration.
*  1974   &ndash; The house of former British Prime Minister [[Edward Heath]] is attacked by members of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]].
*[[1975]] &ndash; U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] creates the [[Strategic Petroleum Reserve (United States)|Strategic Petroleum Reserve]] in response to the [[1970s energy crisis]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oil and Gasoline Fast Facts|url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/30/world/oil-and-gasoline-fast-facts/index.html|access-date=2022-01-13|website=CNN|date=30 July 2013 }}</ref> 
*[[1978]] &ndash; The pivotal Third Plenum of the [[11th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party]] is held in Beijing, with [[Deng Xiaoping]] reversing [[Mao Zedong|Mao]]-era policies to pursue a program for [[Chinese economic reform]].
*[[1984]] &ndash; "Subway vigilante" [[Bernhard Goetz]] shoots four would-be muggers on a [[2 (New York City Subway service)|2]] express train in [[Manhattan]] section of New York, United States.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ron|last=Christenson|title=Political Trials in History: From Antiquity to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBdOvs2THGEC&pg=PA162|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-3125-3|pages=162}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; In [[Zimbabwe]], the political parties [[Zimbabwe African National Union|ZANU]] and [[Zimbabwe African People's Union|ZAPU]] reach an agreement that ends the violence in the [[Matabeleland]] region known as the [[Gukurahundi]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa |url=http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn%3Anbn%3Ase%3Anai%3Adiva-251 |title=Towards a New Partnership with Africa: Challenges and Opportunities |author2=Adebayo O. Olukoshi |author3=Lennart Wohlgemuth |author4=Nordiska Afrikainstitutet |publisher=Nordic Africa Institute |year=1998 |isbn=978-91-7106-422-6 |pages=78}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Romanian Revolution]]: [[Communism|Communist]] [[President of Romania]] [[Nicolae Ceaușescu]] is overthrown by [[Ion Iliescu]] after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife Elena flee [[Bucharest]] in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jouffroy-Lucien Radel|title=Reconstructing the Western Alliance: Europe & the U.S.A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3InAQAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Lakesider Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-9625359-0-1|page=74}}</ref>
*  1989   &ndash; [[German reunification]]: Berlin's [[Brandenburg Gate]] re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of [[East Germany|East]] and [[West Germany]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Lech Wałęsa]] is [[1990 Polish presidential election|elected]] [[President of Poland]].
*  1990   &ndash; Final independence of [[Marshall Islands]] and [[Federated States of Micronesia]] after termination of [[Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands|trusteeship]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; During approach to [[Tripoli International Airport]], a [[Boeing 727]] operating as [[Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103]] collides in mid-air with a [[Libyan Air Force]] [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23]], killing 157 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 727-2L5 5A-DIA Tripoli International Airport (TIP)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921222-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-21|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050307072731/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19921222-0 |archive-date=2005-03-07 }}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Airborne Express Flight 827]] crashes in [[Narrows, Virginia]], killing all six people on board.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9705.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411233907/http://ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9705.pdf |archive-date=2016-04-11 |url-status=live|title=Uncontrolled Flight into Terrain, ABX Air (Airborne Express) Douglas DC-8-63, N827AX, Narrows, Virginia, December 22, 1996|date=July 15, 1997|website=ntsb.gov|publisher=[[National Transportation Safety Board]]|id=NTSB/AAR-97/05|access-date=September 5, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Acteal massacre]]: Attendees at a prayer meeting of [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] activists for [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] causes in the small village of [[Acteal]] in the Mexican state of [[Chiapas]] are [[wikt:massacre|massacred]] by [[paramilitary]] forces.
*  1997   &ndash; [[Somali Civil War]]: [[Hussein Farrah Aidid]] relinquishes the disputed title of [[President of Somalia]] by signing the [[Attempts at reconciliation in Somalia (1991–2004)#1997 Cairo Peace Conference / Cairo Declaration|Cairo Declaration]], in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]. It is the first major step towards [[Attempts at reconciliation in Somalia (1991–2004)|reconciliation in Somalia]] since 1991.
*[[1999]] &ndash; Just after taking off from [[London Stansted Airport]], [[Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509]] crashes into [[Hatfield Forest]] near [[Great Hallingbury]], killing all four people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 747-2B5F (SCD) HL7451 Great Hallingbury|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19991222-0|url-status=live|access-date=2020-04-19|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050310111221/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19991222-0 |archive-date=2005-03-10 }}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]], political leader of the [[Northern Alliance]], hands over power in [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]] to the interim government headed by [[President of Afghanistan|President]] [[Hamid Karzai]].
*  2001   &ndash; [[Richard Reid]] attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard [[2001 failed shoe bomb attempt|American Airlines Flight 63]].
* [[2008]] &ndash; An ash dike [[Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill|ruptured]] at a solid waste containment area for a [[Tennessee Valley Authority]] [[Kingston Fossil Plant|coal-fired power plant]] in [[Roane County, Tennessee]], releasing {{convert|1.1|e9USgal|e6m3|order=flip|abbr=unit}} of [[coal]] [[fly ash]] [[slurry]] in the largest industrial spill in U.S. history.<ref name=natgeo19>{{cite news |last=Bourne |first=Joel K. |date=February 19, 2019 |title=Coal's other dark side: Toxic ash that can poison water, destroy life and toxify people |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/coal-other-dark-side-toxic-ash |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219140212/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/coal-other-dark-side-toxic-ash/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 19, 2019 |work=National Geographic |access-date=2020-05-22}}</ref>
*[[2010]] &ndash; The [[Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010|repeal]] of the [[Don't ask, don't tell]] policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=J Ford Huffman|author2=Tammy S. Schultz|author3=Marine Corps University Press (U.S.)|title=The End of Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The Impact in Studies and Personal Essays by Service Members and Veterans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4s8WlVjgCjkC&pg=PT66|date=3 December 2012|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-16-091558-1|pages=66}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Bashir Ahmad Bilour]] of [[Awami National Party]] and eight others are killed in a [[Pakistan]] [[Taliban]] bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.dawn.com/news/773214| title = Suicide attack kills senior minister Bilour, eight others in Peshawar| date = 22 December 2012}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; A study finds the [[VSV-EBOV]] vaccine against the [[Ebola virus]] between 70 and 100% effective, thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
*[[2017]] &ndash; [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397]] against North Korea is unanimously approved.
*  2017   &ndash; President [[Donald Trump]] signs the [[Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-28|title=Donald Trump - Key Events {{!}} Miller Center|url=https://millercenter.org/president/trump/key-events|access-date=2022-01-11|website=millercenter.org|language=en}}</ref>
*[[2018]] &ndash; A [[2018 Sunda Strait tsunami|tsunami]] caused by an eruption of [[Anak Krakatau]] in Indonesia kills at least 430 people and injures almost a thousand more.
*  2018   &ndash; The [[2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown]], the longest [[Government shutdowns in the United States|shutdown]] of the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. federal government]] in history, begins.<ref>"[https://millercenter.org/president/trump/key-events Donald Trump - Key Events | Miller Center]". ''millercenter.org''. 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2022-01-11.</ref>