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Friday, 12 December 2025

2006

Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.

2005

Gebran Tueni, Lebanese journalist and politician, is assassinated.

The Young Turks (talk show), a liberal talk show, begins airing.

2000

The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in ''Bush v. Gore''

1991

Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR.

1988

The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains – one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

1985

Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 248 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

1984

Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter was attending a summit.

1982

Women's peace protest at Greenham Common

1979

President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers ''Nishan-e-Imtiaz'' on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.

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