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December 18th – On This Day

2018 - A meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere at 32 kilometers per second, explodes in a huge fireball over the Bering Sea with 10 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

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December 17th – On This Day

2004 - The opening of ‘The Sage in Gateshead’, a concert venue and centre for musical education, located on the south bank of the River Tyne.

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December 16th – On This Day

1995 - The name “Euro” was officially adopted for European Currency in Madrid. Belgian Esperantist Germain Pirlot, a former teacher of French and history, is credited with naming the new currency.

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December 15th – On This Day

2013 - Andy Murray was awarded the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. Earlier in the year Murray had become the first Briton in three quarters of a century to win the men’s singles competition at Wimbledon.

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December 14th – On This Day

1984 - Miners’ leader Arthur Scargill was found guilty of obstruction during a picket at a Yorkshire coal works earlier in the year. He was fined £250 and ordered to pay £750 in costs.

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December 13th – On This Day

1972 - Last human landing on the Moon. Apollo 17 was the last mission of the United States’ Apollo lunar landing program. It was also the sixth and the last time humans landed on the Moon.

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December 12th – On This Day

1982 - 30,000 women formed a 9 mile human chain that encircled Greenham Common air base in Berkshire, in protest against the proposed siting of US Cruise missiles there.

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December 11th – On This Day

2005 - A huge fire continued to burn at Buncefield oil depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It was the largest of its kind in peacetime Europe and the noise of the explosions could be heard as far away as the Netherlands.

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December 10th – On This Day

1979 - Twenty year old stuntman Eddie Kidd accomplished a "death-defying" motorcycle leap when he crossed an 80ft gap over a 50ft sheer drop above a viaduct at Maldon, Essex.

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