December 11: Republic Day in Burkina Faso (1958); Fête de l'Escalade begins in Switzerland (2015)
Eugene Cernan on the lunar rover
- 220 – Emperor Xian abdicated the throne and the Han Dynasty broke apart, beginning the Three Kingdoms period in China.
- 1886 – The London-based football club Arsenal, then known as Dial Square, played their first match on the Isle of Dogs.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: Following an Irish Republican Army ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in Cork, British forces burned and looted numerous buildings in the city.
- 1972 – Apollo 17 (Lunar Roving Vehicle pictured), the last Apollo moon mission, landed on the Moon.
- 2005 – A demonstration by Australians in Cronulla, New South Wales, against recent violence towards locals turned into a race riot.
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