DECEMBER
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| December 1 | José Figueres abolished the army of Costa Rica in 1949 Antarctic Peace Treaty, 1959 Ernst Toller born in Prussia, 1893 Medha Patkar born in India, 1954 National Holiday of Central African Republic, Romania |
| December 2 | Ibrahim Rugova born in Yugoslavia, 1944 Lucy
Liu born in New York, 1968 National Holiday of Lao People's Democratic Republic, United Arab Emirates |
| December 3 | * International Day of Disabled Persons Octavia Hill born in England, 1838 Kim Dae Jung born in Korea, 1925 Daryl Hannah born in Illinois, 1960 |
| December 4 | Luther Gulick born in Hawaii, 1865 Jeff Bridges born in California, 1949 |
| December 5 | The UN agreed to establish the University of Peace in Costa Rica, 1980 National Holiday of Thailand |
| December 6 | Patsy Takemoto Mink born in Hawaii, 1927 13th Amedment, abolishing slavery was ratified, 1865 National Holiday of Finland |
| December 7 | *
International Civil
Aviation Day Noam Chomsky born in Pennsylvania, 1928 Melba Pattillo Beals was born in 1941 Harry Chapin was born in New York in 1942 Steve Diamond was born in Panama in 1946 |
| December 8 | Teri Hatcher was born in California in 1964 Baron Pierre de Coubertin created the modern Olympic games, Athens 1896 US and Soviet Union signed treaty to eliminate 2 classes of nuclear weapons, 1987 |
| December 9 | * International Anti-Corruption Day Esther Peterson was born in Utah in 1906 |
| December 10 | William Lloyd Garrison born in Massachusetts, 1805 Spanish American War ended with the signing of a treaty in Paris, 1898 The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in Norway and Sweden on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death (first prize was awarded in 1901) Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted 1948 |
| December 11 | George Mason born in Virginia, 1725 Tom Hayden born in Michigan, 1939 UNICEF (the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) was established, 1946 National Holiday of Burkina Faso |
| December 12 | National Holiday of Kenya Charlotte Gulick born in ohio, 1865 Beate Weber born in Germany, 1943 |
| December 13 | Else von Hollander born in Latvia, 1885 Ella Baker born in Virginia, 1903 |
| December 14 | Leonardo Boff born in Brazil, 1938 The UN General Assembly voted to establish its headquarters in New York City, 1946 |
| December 15 | Bill
of Rights Day,
commemorating ratification of Bill of Rights in 1791 United Nations Resolution for "Right to Life in Peace," 1978 |
| December 16 | Reconciliation Day (South Africa) Amy Carmichael born in Northern Ireland, 1867 Margaret Mead born in Pennsylvania, 1901 President A.N.R. Robinson born in Tobago, 1926 Barbara Wiedner born in Wisconsin, 1928 Barbara Smith born in Ohio, 1946 National
Holiday of Bahrain |
| December 17 | Craig Kielburger born in Toronto, Canda, 1982 National Holiday of Bhutan Clean Air Act passed by Congress, 1967 |
| December 18 | Willy Brandt born in Germany, 1913 Ossie Davis born in Georgia, USA, 1917 Dick Wareham born in Pennsylvania, 1924 Stephen Biko born in South Africa, 1946 Brad Pitt born in Oklahoma, 1963 National
Holiday of Niger |
| December 19 | Mary Livermore born in Massachusetts, 1820 Phil Ochs born in Texas, 1940 Richard Leakey born in Kenya, 1944 Alyssa Milano born in New York, 1972 |
| December 20 | General Assembly approved the Declaration on the Rights of the Child, 1965 |
| December 21 | Jane Fonda born in New York, 1932 Phil Donahue born in Ohio, 1935 Matthew Fox born in Wisconsin, 1940 Robert Bullard born, 1946 John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave 8 million dollars for land on the East River, Manhattan, New York to build a home for the United Nations 1946 |
| December 22 | Hector Elizondo born in New York, 1936 Ralph Fiennes born in England, 1962 Environmental Agenda of Rio approved by United Nations General Assembly, 1992 |
| December 23 | National Holiday of Japan |
| December 24 | Benjamin Rush was born in Pennsylvania in 1745 Irene Khan was born in Bangladesh in 1956 |
| December 25 | Anwar Sadat born in Egypt, 1918 Clara Barton born in Massachusetts, 1821 Atal Bihari Vajpayee born in India, 1924 Annie Lennox born in Scotland, 1954 |
| December 26 | UN Convention to combat desertification came into force 1997 Norman Angell was born in England, 1872 José Ramos-Horta born in East Timor, 1949 |
| December 27 | Rodrigo Carazo born in Costa Rica, 1927 Zafrullah Chowdhury born in Bangladesh, 1941 |
| December 28 | Woodrow Wilson born in Virginia, 1856 Endangered Species Act signed into law, 1973 |
| December 29 | Pablo Casals born in Spain, 1876 Ted Danson born in California, 1947 Jude Law born in England, 1972 Václav Havel became President of Czechoslovakia, 1989 Peace accord ends 36 year civil war in Guatemala, 1996 |
| December 30 | John Peter Altgeld born in Germany, 1847 Hanumappa Reddy Sudarshan born in India, 1950 |
| December 31 | Simon Wiesenthal born in Austria, 1908 John Denver born in New Mexico, 1943 Marla Ruzicka born in New California, 1976 UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar achieved cease-fire in El Salvador two minutes before midnight, ending his second term as Secretary-General, 1991 |
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