December 12: Yule Lads begin arrival in Iceland
Scene of the Clapham Junction rail crash
- 1531 – According to traditional Catholic accounts, the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary miraculously appeared imprinted on Juan Diego's tilma.
- 1866 – England's worst mining disaster occurred when a series of explosions caused by flammable gases ripped through the Oaks Colliery.
- 1941 – At a Nazi Party meeting in the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler declared the imminent destruction of the Jewish race.
- 1956 – The Irish Republican Army began its Border Campaign, a guerrilla campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland.
- 1988 – Three trains collided (scene pictured) near Clapham Junction railway station in London, killing 35 people and injuring 484 others.
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