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Independence Day in Moldova ( 1991) | too detailed |
1689 – The Tsardom of Russia and Qing China signed the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the first treaty between the two nations. | unreferenced sections |
1776 – British forces led by William Howe defeated the American Continental Army under George Washington at the Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War. | refimprove section |
1918 – Border War: United States Army troops engaged the Carrancistas garrison in the Battle of Ambos Nogales; because the latter had the assistance of German military advisers, it was also the only battle of World War I fought on U.S. soil. | refimprove section |
1922 – Turkish forces re-captured Afyon, the first victory of their counterattack during the Greco-Turkish War. | unreferenced section |
1928 – Over sixty nations signed the Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. | refimprove section |
1939 – Flown by German test pilot Erich Warsitz, experimental jet plane Heinkel He 178 became the world's first aircraft to fly under turbojet power. | refimprove section |
1957 – The Constitution of Malaya came into force, three days before the Federation of Malaya achieved formal independence from the United Kingdom. | unreferenced section |
1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, who had both been involved in plots to unseat Khánh. | Dương: refimprove section |
1985 – The Nigerian government of Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida. | refimprove; Buhari appears on December 31 |
1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Moldova declared its independence during the aftermath of the failure of the Soviet coup d'état attempt. | too detailed |
2000 – Moscow's Ostankino Tower caught fire, killing four people and disrupting television and radio signals around the city. | unreferenced section |
Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611) · Man Ray (b. 1890) · Brian Epstein (d. 1967)