Events 801 - 813 of 813
Election of Interest
Dec 17 Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term
Angela Merkel
Hall of Fame
Dec 17 Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda Ronstadt and Nirvana are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Kurt Cobain
Cat Stevens
- Dec 19 81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at London's Apollo Theatre
Film Release
Dec 25 "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, is released
Leonardo DiCaprio
Jonah Hill
- Dec 27 29 people are killed after a bus plunged off the Huay Tong Bridge, Thailand
- Dec 28 Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship
- Dec 28 Early signs of Ebola epidemic: 2 year old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified hemorrhagic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow
- Dec 29 Chaparrastique volcano erupts in El Salvador
- Dec 29 16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia
- Dec 29 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says barrel bombs on Aleppo have killed 517 people since 15th December
Event of Interest
Dec 29 7-time world F1 motor racing champion Michael Schumacher suffers a serious head injury in a ski accident in the French Alps; his condition still remains unclear
Michael Schumacher
- Dec 30 15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd, Russia
Event of Interest
Dec 30 NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Washington Redskins
Mike Shanahan