December
19
United
Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
South-South
cooperation, as an important element of international
cooperation for development, offers viable opportunities
for developing countries and countries with economies
in transition in their individual and collective
pursuit of sustained economic growth and sustainable
development.
Developing
countries have the primary responsibility for
promoting and implementing South-South cooperation,
not as a substitute for but rather as a complement
to North-South cooperation, and in this context
reiterating the need for the international community
to support the efforts of the developing countries
to expand South-South cooperation.
By
resolution 58/220 of 23 December 2003, the General
Assembly decided to declare 19 December, United
Nations Day for South-South Cooperation. This
was the date on which the General Assembly endorsed
the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting
and Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing
Countries.
The
Assembly also urged all relevant United Nations
organizations and multilateral institutions to
intensify their efforts to effectively mainstream
the use of South-South cooperation in the design,
formulation and implementation of their regular
programmes and to consider increasing allocations
of human, technical and financial resources for
supporting South-South cooperation initiatives.
Events
211
– Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome,
is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet
his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla),
to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he
arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him and he
dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna.
324 – Licinius abdicates his position as Roman
Emperor.
1154 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster
Abbey.
1490 – Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1606 – The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the
Discovery depart England carrying settlers who
found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the
thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series
of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled
The American Crisis.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's
Continental Army goes into winter quarters at
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British
frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two
Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart
engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
1828 – Nullification Crisis: Vice President of
the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South
Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the
Tariff of 1828.
1843 – Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol goes
on sale.
1900 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General
of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun,
appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new
state New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade
other colonial politicians to join his government
and is forced to resign.
1907 – A group of 239 coal miners die during a
mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1912 – William H. Van Schaick, captain of the
steamship General Slocum which caught fire and
killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S.
President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years
in Sing Sing prison.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun – On the
Western Front, the French Army successfully holds
off the German Army and drives it back to its
starting position.
1920 – King Constantine I is restored as King
of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander
I of Greece and a plebiscite.
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold
in London, England.
1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries viz. Ram Prasad
Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were
executed by the British government.
1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as
the BBC Empire Service
1941 – World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme
Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
1941 – World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian
divers sink the HMS Valiant (1914) and HMS Queen
Elizabeth (1913) in Alexandria harbour.
1946 – Start of the First Indochina War.
1956 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams
is arrested in connection with the suspicious
deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he
is convicted only of minor charges.
1961 – India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese
India.
1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United
Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan
Jamshid bin Abdullah.
1964 – The South Vietnamese military junta of
Nguyen Khanh dissolved the High National Council
and arrested some of the members.
1967 – Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt
is officially presumed dead.
1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight,
Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans
and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1975 – John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice
of The United States Supreme Court.
1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee
lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster
Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the
Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters
of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio
de Janeiro.
1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating
that the People's Republic of China would resume
the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and
the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to
China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed
in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1986 – Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet
Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from
exile in Gorky.
1995 – The United States Government restores federal
recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of
Potawatomi Indian tribe.
1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi
River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House
of Representatives forwards articles I and III
of impeachment against President Bill Clinton
to the Senate.
2000 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack
a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul,
killing one person and injuring three.
2001 – A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6
hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel,
Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001
riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
O Radix
Pope Anastasius I
Liberation day (Goa)
Opalia (Roman Empire)
United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
(International)
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