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Yoon Do-young
- ... that Yoon Do-young (pictured) scored his debut goal for Daejeon Hana Citizen 50 seconds into a match against Gwangju FC?
- ... that the 2007 Greensburg tornado had ten smaller tornadoes orbiting it?
- ... that a music video for a song on the album Dostrotime was made with an oscilloscope?
- ... that the bacterium Ethanoligenens harbinense can produce hydrogen?
- ... that Bob Hainlen, at the age of 22, was both a player and an assistant coach for a professional American football team?
- ... that Izvestiya Askhabadskogo Soveta was the first Bolshevik newspaper published in present-day Turkmenistan?
- ... that after he did not come home for dinner, James Michael Reardon's assistant priests found that he had died in his basilica while praying?
- ... that the area around Sams Creek was excluded from Kahurangi National Park when it was formed in 1996 due to gold-mining interests?
- ... that Susan Finnegan was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign her job to marry?
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Woo Won-shik, the speaker of the South Korean National Assembly, signing the impeachment resolution
- A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, leaving 14 people dead.
- President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol is impeached (signing pictured) following his declaration of martial law.
- Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards.
- Gukesh Dommaraju defeats Ding Liren to win the World Chess Championship.
On this day...
December 18: National Day in Qatar (1878)
Atlas rocket carrying SCORE
- 1622 – Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
- 1932 – Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League.
- 1958 – The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite.
- 1963 – Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.
- 2017 – An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.
- Yaonian Yanmujin (d. 933)
- Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
- Ty Cobb (b. 1886)
- Keith Richards (b. 1943)
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