On December 12
On December 12, 4 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Marconi's Transatlantic Wireless Signal (1901).
On this day
On 12 December 1901 the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi reported receiving the first wireless signal transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean.
From 12 to 26 December 1936, generals Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng detained Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek at Xi'an, demanding that he halt the civil war against the Chinese Communists and instead unite the nation against Japanese…
On 12 December 2015, at the COP21 climate conference in Paris, 195 nations adopted the Paris Agreement, the first truly universal climate accord binding both developed and developing countries.
From 1952 to 1960 the British colony of Kenya was convulsed by the Mau Mau rebellion, an armed insurgency by the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, drawn mainly from the Kikuyu, Embu and Meru peoples, against colonial rule and the dispossession…