On December 18
On December 18, 3 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including China's Reform and Opening-Up Begins Under Deng Xiaoping (1978).
On this day
On 18 December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party convened in Beijing and resolved to shift the focus of the Party and state from class struggle to economic construction, launching…
On 18 December 1979 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), an international treaty often described as an international bill of rights for women.
In 2025, renewable energy surpassed coal as the largest single source of electricity generation worldwide for the first time, a structural milestone in the global energy transition.