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Portugal: Carnival
Montenegro: Orthodox second day of Christmas
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Events

1297 - Monaco gains its independence.
1499 - Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
1734 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1746 - Second Jacobite Rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
1790 - George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address in New York City.
1806 - Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1811 - An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
1815 - War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
1835 - The United States national debt is 0 for the only time.
1838 - Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
1867 - African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
1877 - Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).
1900 - President William McKinley places Alaska under military rule.
1906 - A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
1912 - The African National Congress is founded.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
1926 - Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of Hejaz and renames it Saudi Arabia.
1940 - World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
1956 - Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1959 - Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution is completed with the take over of Santiago de Cuba.
1961 - In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
1962 - Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1962 - The Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in The Netherlands.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
1973 - Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1973 - Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland (The Betelgeuse incident).
1982 - The break up of AT&T: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 - The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 on board.
1989 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
1994 - Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 people.
2002 - President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 - The RMS;Queen Mary 2, the largest passenger ship ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
2005 - The nuclear sub USS;San Francisco;(SSN-711) collides with an undersea mountain at full speed south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.
2009 - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.

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Republic of Yemen
الجمهوريّة اليمنية
Republic of Yemen - FlagRepublic of Yemen - Coat of arms
Republic of Yemen - Location
Capital: Sanaá
Official languages: Arabic
Government: Republic
Currency: Yemeni Rial (YER)
Population: 23 013 000
Area: 527 970 km²
Religion: Islam
Time Zone: UTC +3
Auto Code: Y
Internet TLD: .ye
Calling code: +967
Corporate Income Tax: <35%
Personal Income Tax: <20%
Value Added Tax: 0,5-2%
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