12 Azar 1395

Events

• 1954 (72 years ago) The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
• 1956 (70 years ago) The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
• 1962 (64 years ago) Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
• 1971 (55 years ago) Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
• 1975 (51 years ago) Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
• 1993 (33 years ago) Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed by police in Medellín.
• 2020 (6 years ago) Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

Births

• 1825 (201 years ago) Pedro II of Brazil,
• 1859 (167 years ago) Georges Seurat, French painter (died 1891)
• 1891 (135 years ago) Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator (died 1969)
• 1923 (103 years ago) Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano and actress (died 1977)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Lucy Liu, American actress and producer
• 1978 (48 years ago) Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1981 (45 years ago) Britney Spears, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

Deaths

• 537 (1489 years ago) Pope Silverius,
• 1547 (479 years ago) Hernán Cortés, Spanish general and explorer (born 1485)
• 1594 (432 years ago) Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (born 1512)
• 1814 (212 years ago) Marquis de Sade, French philosopher, author, and politician (born 1740)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (born 1868)
• 1944 (82 years ago) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer (born 1876)
• 1969 (57 years ago) Kliment Voroshilov, Ukrainian-Russian marshal and politician, 3rd Head of State of The Soviet Union (born 1881)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (born 1949)

All 400 events, births and deaths of December 2