December 18: Republic Day in Niger (1958); National Day in Qatar (1878)
The first performance of The Nutcracker
- 1867 – In Angola, New York, US, the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed, plunged 40 ft (12 m) down a gully, and caught fire, resulting in 49 deaths.
- 1892 – The first performance of the fairy-tale ballet The Nutcracker (pictured) was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 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.
- 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.
- 2005 – The most recent Chadian Civil War began when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launched an attack in Adré.
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