What Happened in December 2018

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• Dec 1 British boxer Tyson Fury dominates much of the fight but survives 2 knockdowns to force a split decision draw with defending WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder at the Staples Center, Los Angeles

• Dec 1 Egyptian actress Rania Youssef charged for "inciting debauchery" after wearing see-through dress to Cairo film festival
• Dec 1 Syrian shadow puppetry added to UN list of cultural activities in urgent need of saving
• Dec 1 Violent demonstrations in Paris, France, by yellow-vest movement with 36,000 protesting nationwide
• Dec 1 World's first super-high definition 8K television channel by Japanese broadcaster NHK launches

• Dec 3 7-year old Ryan of Ryan Toysreview is the year's highest-paid YouTube star earning $22 million

• Dec 3 Dutch court in Arnhem rejects man's request to legally be recognised 20 years younger
• Dec 4 Attempts to establish mob council in Sicily thwarted when 46 members of the mafia arrested including Settimio Mineo
• Dec 4 First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil
• Dec 4 French couture house Chanel ends its use of fur and exotic skins following bans by other companies

• Dec 4 Ownership group Seattle Hockey Partners led by billionaire businessman Davis Bonderman is unanimously granted an NHL license by the Board of Governors; to start play 2020-21 season at KeyArena
• Dec 4 Research published in "Nature" and "Science" claims Native Americans had just one migration from Siberia to the New World, at most 23,000 years ago
• Dec 4 Scottish artist Charlotte Prodger wins the 2018 Turner Prize with film shot on her iPhone

• Dec 5 Arrest of Huawei Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou for possible violation of Iran sanctions in Canada
• Dec 5 CO2 emissions reach all-time high (up 2.7%) driven by coal use in China and consumption of oil, in Global Carbon Project report

• Dec 5 US state funeral for former president George H. W. Bush, eulogy by George W. Bush, attended by President Donald Trump predecessors Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter
• Dec 5 Wisconsin Republican senate passes bills restricting power of new Democratic governor Tony Evers
• Dec 6 Luxembourg is the first country to make all public transport free
• Dec 6 Oldest-known plague sample found in 4,900-year-old remains of 20-year old woman in Gökhem, southern Sweden published in "Cell"
• Dec 6 Senegal's new Museum of Black Civilisations is opened in Dakar by President Macky Sall

• Dec 7 Brazilian spiritual healer João Teixeira de Faria accused of sexual abuse by four women, over 200 more come forward in next week

• Dec 7 Former Italy national football coach Cesare Prandelli is appointed manager of Serie A club Genoa CFC replacing Ivan Juric; first time in history all 20 Serie A managers are all Italian
• Dec 7 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: US ends Europe's 8-year run with an 11-9 win; MVP: Skyler Woodward (USA)
• Dec 8 84th Heisman Trophy Award: Kyler Murray, Oklahoma (QB)

• Dec 8 US President Donald Trump announces John Kelly will be stepping down as White House Chief of Staff at the end of the year
• Dec 9 Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wins a snap election with 70.4% of the vote
• Dec 9 Copa Libertadores Final, Madrid: River Plate beats Boca Juniors 3-1 in extra time (aggregate 5-3); Juan Quintero's stunning extra-time strike helps River come from a goal down to record historic victory over 10-man Boca

• Dec 9 Tens of thousands march on Delhi, India, to demand Hindi temple be built on contentious religious site in Ayodhya
• Dec 9 Winter storm hits US south east killing three, leaving hundreds of thousands without power, cancelling over 1,000 flights
• Dec 10 Emmanuel Macron announces in TV address rise in minimum wage and tax concessions after weeks of civil unrest
• Dec 10 Russia's most prolific mass murderer Mikhail Popkov sentenced to second life sentence for total of 56 murders
• Dec 10 Theresa May cancels UK parliament vote on Brexit bill in face of certain defeat
• Dec 11 The Arctic is experiencing "unprecedented warmth" caused by human-caused climate change, according to US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Report

• Dec 12 American Media Inc. publisher of "National Enquirer" admits paying hush money to mistresses of US President Donald Trump
• Dec 12 British Prime Minister Theresa May survives 200-117 no-confidence vote from her own Conservative Party
• Dec 12 China built 88 out of world's 143 skyscrapers in 2018 more than any country ever (buildings over 200 meters/656 ft)
• Dec 12 Michael Cohen, former lawyer for US President Donald Trump sentenced to three years in prison for campaign-finance violations and tax fraud
• Dec 12 Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev compete complex spacewalk to fix hole in Soyuz spacecraft
• Dec 12 Seven mass graves in former Islamic State area discovered containing hundreds of bodies, some tortured, near Albu Kamal, eastern Syria
• Dec 13 Actress Eliza Dushku revealed received $9.5 million settlement from CBS after sexual harassment on set of "Bull" from actor Michael Weatherley
• Dec 13 Apple announces new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas and expansion in other US cities
• Dec 13 Cease-fire in port city of Hudaydah, Yemen, by Houthi rebels and Saudi-led coalition announced by the UN
• Dec 13 German basketball forward Dirk Nowitzki takes the court for his record 21st NBA season with the Dallas Mavericks, surpassing Kobe Bryant's 20 seasons with the LA Lakers
• Dec 13 Passenger train collides with maintenance locomotive in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 9 and injuring 47
• Dec 13 US Senate passes non-binding "war powers resolution" against long-term ally Saudi Arabia
• Dec 14 Report by Reuters US pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson knew for decades their talc was contaminated with asbestos
• Dec 15 Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas; later reversed by US Supreme Court
• Dec 15 Diplomats from 200 countries agree to a set of rules to implement the UN Paris Climate Agreement in Katowice, Poland
• Dec 15 Egyptian Archaeologists announce discovery of 4,400 year old tomb of Fifth Dynasty priest in Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo

• Dec 16 Huge explosion and fire in a restaurant in Sapporo, Japan injures 42
• Dec 16 Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is sworn back into office two months after being removed by President Sirisena
• Dec 17 Astronomers identify furtherest object in the solar system as 2018 VG18 (nicknamed Farout), 120 x further from the sun than earth
• Dec 17 Catriona Gray of the Philippines crowned 67th Miss Universe
• Dec 17 CBS announces former Chief Executive Les Moonves will not receive his $120 million exit payout
• Dec 17 Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's word of the year is "justice"
• Dec 17 Malaysia files criminal charges against US bank Goldman Sachs for it role in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd scandal
• Dec 17 New reports to US Senate say Russian propaganda efforts on social media much more extensive than thought, including targeting African Americans
• Dec 17 US military confirms it has killed 62 fighters from Islamist group al-Shabab in air strikes in Somalia
• Dec 17 US poacher sentenced to watch the film "Bambi" repeatedly during year in prison, for killing hundreds of deer in Missouri
• Dec 18 Fire destroys 600 stilt homes in Manaus, northwestern Brazil
• Dec 18 Manchester United sacks high profile Portuguese manager Jose Mourinho; United in 6th place in EPL, 19 points behind league leaders Liverpool; Ole Gunnar Solskjaer new caretaker manager
• Dec 18 Meteor explodes in huge fireball over the Bering Sea with 10 times the energy of Hiroshima atomic bomb, 2nd largest in last 30 yrs
• Dec 18 Nevada becomes the first US state with a female-majority legislature with new appointments taking it to 51%
• Dec 19 Drones flying over Gatwick airport, England, causes delays and cancellations for 800 flights and 110,000 people
• Dec 19 First use of a drone to deliver vaccines - to island of Erromango, Vanuatu, by Unicef
• Dec 19 Houston Rockets set NBA single-game record with 26 three-pointers in 136-118 victory over Washington Wizards; 8 players hit from deep as Rockets shoot 26-of-55 (47.3%); James Harden leads charge, shooting 6-of-11 on 3s
• Dec 19 US President Donald Trump announces victory over the Islamic State and planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria
• Dec 20 New figures show average US male weighs 198 pounds and stands 5 feet 9 inches, women 171 pounds and 5 feet 4 inches
• Dec 20 US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announces his resignation after disagreements with President Donald Trump
• Dec 21 Tennis Australia announces a 10-point tie break to be implemented in Australian Open when deciding set reaches 6-6; takes place of 2-game advantage final sets
• Dec 22 Partial shutdown of US federal government begins

• Dec 26 American Colin O'Brady is the first person to cross Antarctica solo and unassisted after 54 days at the Ross Ice Shelf

• Dec 28 UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes of Brazil moves up in weight and KOs dominant featherweight Cris "Cyborg" Justino just 51 seconds into the opening round at the Forum, Inglewood, CA; first female to win UFC titles in multiple weight classes
• Dec 29 40 militants killed in Giza and El-Arish by Egyptian police after attack on a tourist bus the day before killed four
• Dec 29 85th Orange Bowl: #1 Alabama beats #4 Oklahoma, 45-34
• Dec 29 Record lowest temperature of -111C registered by American satellite Noaa-20 in the western Pacific at top of large storm [1]

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• Dec 1 Calvin Newborn, American R&B and jazz guitarist, dies at 85
• Dec 1 Kenneth "Ken" Berry, American actor (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family), dies at 85
• Dec 3 Andrei Bitov, Russian writer (Pushkin House), dies at 81
• Dec 3 Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 - 2000), dies at 87
• Dec 3 Justin Cartwright, British novelist (In Every Face I Meet), dies at 75
• Dec 3 Philip Bosco, American actor (Trading Places, Lend Me a Tenor), dies at 88
• Dec 5 Alex Boraine, South Africa politician, minister, and anti-apartheid activist (Co-Chairman of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1996-2003). dies of cancer at 87
• Dec 6 Andrew Frierson, pioneering African American opera singer, dies at 94
• Dec 6 John "Ace" Cannon, American pop, rock and country music saxophonist (Tuff Sax), dies at 84
• Dec 6 Pete Shelley [Peter McNeish], English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Buzzcocks "Going Steady"), dies at 63
• Dec 7 Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, President of Colombia (1982-86), dies at 95
• Dec 8 Evelyn Berezin, American computer pioneer, invented first word processor, dies at 93
• Dec 8 Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian 'Grandmother of Russian Human Rights', dies at 91
• Dec 8 Roger the ripped kangaroo, famous for crushing a metal bucket like a paper cup, dies at 12 in Alice Springs of old age
• Dec 8 Rosanell Eaton, American voting rights advocate, dies at 97
• Dec 9 (Arie) "Aat" Veldhoen, Dutch visual artist, dies at 84

• Dec 9 Melvin Dummar, American gas station attendant, claimant to the Howard Hughes estate, and subject of the film "Melvin and Howard", dies at 74
• Dec 9 Riccardo Giacconi, Italian American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 2002 for X-ray astronomy, dies at 87
• Dec 12 Meng Lang, Chinese poet and activist, dies at 57
• Dec 13 Alann Steen, American journalist and educator, and political hostage (Beirut, 1987-91), dies of cancer at 79
• Dec 13 Nancy Wilson, American jazz vocalist ("Feel Like Making Love"), dies at 81
• Dec 14 Joe Osborn, American session bass player (Bridge Over Troubled Water), dies of pancreatic cancer at 81
• Dec 16 Colin Kroll, American co-founder of Vine and HQ Trivia, dies of a drug overdose at 34
• Dec 16 John Ford Noonan, American playwright (A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking), dies at 77
• Dec 16 Lee Leonard, American television personality (ESPN, CNN), dies at 89
• Dec 16 Oribe Canales, Cuban American celebrity hairdresser, dies of cancer at 62
• Dec 16 Robin Clark, New Zealand-born chemist (early transition metals and highly coordinated complexes), dies at 83
• Dec 17 Galt MacDermot, Canadian musician and composer (Hair), dies at 89

• Dec 17 Raven Wilkinson, American ballerina, first African American woman to dance with major ballet company, dies at 83
• Dec 18 David Austin, English rose breeder (Austin roses), dies at 92
• Dec 20 Donald Moffat, British actor (Logan's Run), dies at 87
• Dec 22 Frank Brake, English entrepreneur (Brake Bros. Frozen Food), multi-millionaire, and philanthropist, dies at 80
• Dec 22 Paddy Ashdown, British MP, leader of Liberal Democrats (1988-1999), dies of bladder cancer at 77
• Dec 22 Roberto Suazo Córdova, President of Honduras (1982-86), dies at 91
• Dec 23 (Ann) "Honey" Lantree, British rock drummer (The Honeycombs), dies at 75
• Dec 25 Nancy Roman, American, NASA's first chief of astronomy 'Mother of the Hubble', dies at 93
• Dec 26 Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, English mathematician (Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture), dies at 91
• Dec 26 Sono Osato, American Japanese ballet dancer and actress, dies at 99
• Dec 26 Theodore Antoniou, Greek conductor and composer (Paean, Celebration), dies at 83
• Dec 26 Wendy Beckett, South African British nun and TV art critic, dies at 88
• Dec 28 Christine McGuire, American pop vocalist (McGuire Sisters - "Sincerely"; "Sugartime"), dies at 92
• Dec 28 Georges Loinger, French resistance fighter (WWII), dies at 108
• Dec 28 June Whitfield, English comedian and actress (Terry and June, Absolutely Fabulous), dies at 93
• Dec 28 Ray Sawyer, American singer (Dr Hook), dies at 81
• Dec 28 Shehu Shagari, Nigerian politician, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 93
• Dec 29 Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American concert cellist and educator (Yale School of Music, 1958-2018). dies at 100
• Dec 29 Bill Watson, Australian cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman mid-1950s), dies at 87
• Dec 30 Larry Austin, American classical and electronic composer and educator, dies at 88
• Dec 30 Mrinal Sen, Bengali film director (In Search of Famine), dies at 95
• Dec 31 Dean Ford (Thomas McAleese), Scottish singer-songwriter (Marmalade), dies from complications relating to Parkinson's disease at 72 [1]
• Dec 31 Urban "Urbie" Green, American jazz trombonist (Woody Herman; Buck Clayton; Hugo Montenegro), dies at 92