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The National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre [note 1] is a national memorial day observed in China on 13 December annually in honor of the Chinese victims of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The observance draws attention to Japanese war crimes during this period. [1]
Imperial Japanese Army from 13 November until 31 December 1937 [11] [12] : 4,202 combat deaths [a] ... Tang prepared to do so the next day on December 12, ...
The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.The combat between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee included futile frontal attacks by the Union army on December 13 against entrenched ...
December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) ... defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, ...
Though the occurrence of avalanches in the Dolomites Mountains took place on a Wednesday in 1916, the term "White Friday" was used to coin the disastrous day, and the event is commemorated every year on 13 December, which is also marked by Saint Lucy's Day, a commemorative religious holiday practiced by the majority of Italian Catholics. [2]
In addition to the American service members, 168 Afghans were killed in the bombing as they tried to get on board evacuation flights out of the war-torn country.
From Veterans Day to Christmas, here are the dates of the 2024 federal holidays. New Year’s Day: Monday, January 1 Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Monday, January 15
On 13 December 1989 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint complex manned by the King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSB) near the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border at Derryard townland, a few miles north of Rosslea, County Fermanagh.