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• ... that
  literary journal
  in which he referred to himself as "Chief of the Tribe"?
• ... that the publisher claimed that demand for Zoe Sugg's debut novel Girl Online was so high that every bookshop started selling it before its official release date?
• ... that Hans Wallat conducted Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen ninety times?
• ... that the voice actors in Chaar Sahibzaade, the first Punjabi 3D animation film, were kept anonymous?
• ... that the Arthur R. Hoard House‎‎ in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, was home to state assemblyman Horace B. Willard and two mayors?
• ... that the bee Megachile rubi cuts portions of leaf to shape and size to line each cell it builds?
• ... that Buck Mountain is most likely named after Albert Ansbach?

• Gunman
  a siege ends at a café in Sydney
  .
• In Japan, the
  general election
  .
• The Alliance Lepep coalition, led by
  general election in Mauritius
  .
• The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee releases a report strongly criticizing the Central Intelligence Agency's use of torture.
• Former Chinese domestic security chief
  Communist Party of China
  .
• maiden flight of its Orion
  spacecraft.

Ongoing:

• Imjin War
  .
• 1689 – The Parliament of England adopted the Bill of Rights, declaring that Englishmen possessed certain positive civil and political rights.
• 1944 – World War II: The Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany launched its final offensive in the western front, the Battle of the Bulge (German tank pictured).
• Dinmukhamed Konayev was dismissed from the post of First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, sparking riots throughout the country
  .
• gang-raped on a bus, generating public protests across the country against the Government of India and the Government of Delhi
  for not providing adequate security for women.

More anniversaries: December 15 – December 16 – December 17