Portal:Military of the United States/Selected anniversaries/December

Selected anniversaries in December

December 1

• 1925 - World War I aftermath: - The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
• 1941 - World War II: Mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, and the director of the Office of Civilian Defense, sign an order creating the Civil Air Patrol.
• 1959 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
• 1964 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.

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December 16

• 1773 - American Revolution: Boston Tea Party - Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Franklin-Nashville Campaign - Battle of Nashville - Major General George H. Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee.
• 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - General Dwight D. Eisenhower's allied forces and Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt's German army engage in the Belgian Ardennes.
• 1998 - Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox - The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq.

December 17

• 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
• 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - Malmedy massacre - American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
• 1969 - Project Blue Book: The USAF closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of 'A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, Psychopathological persons, and Misidentification of various conventional objects'.
• 1981 - Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigade in Verona, Italy.

December 18

• 1944 - World War II 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow China, a Japanese supply base.

December 19

• 1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

December 20

• 1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
• 1989 - United States invasion of Panama: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega.
• 1995 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.

December 21

• 1861 - Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

December 22

• 1864 - Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".
• 1941 - World War II: First United States troops arrive in Australia.
• 1944 - World War II: German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famouse one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "NUTS!" See Battle of the Bulge.
• 1964 - First SR-71 (Blackbird) flight.

December 23

• 1783 - George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
• 1941 - World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupied Wake Island.

December 24

• 1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed which ended the War of 1812.
• 1865 - Several US Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1943 - World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander.
• 1968 - The crew of the USS Pueblo is released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying.

December 25

• 1776 - George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain's Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1837 - Battle of Okeechobee: United States forces defeat Seminole Indians.
• 1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers.

December 26

• 1776 - American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton.
• 1861 - American Civil War: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Britain.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
• 1944 - World War II: U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne.
• 1998 - Iraq announced its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.

December 27

• 1814 - Destruction of schooner Carolina, the last of Commodore Daniel Patterson's make-shift fleet that fought a series of delaying actions that contributed to Andrew Jackson's victory at the Battle of New Orleans.

December 28

• 1835 - Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army.

December 29

• 1812 - USS Constitution (Captain William Bainbridge) captures HMS Java off Brazil after a three hour battle.
• 1813 - British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812.
• 1862 - The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou ends.
• 1890 - United States soldiers massacre more than 400 men, women and children of the Great Sioux Nation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

December 30

• 1862 - USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: The US halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.

December 31

• 1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold.
• 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two).
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
• 1946 - President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.