How Many Days Until December 18?

This day in history: December 18

1. 1958

   The United States launched SCORE, the world's first communications satellite.

2. 1963

   Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.

3. 1966

   Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.

4. 1969

   On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.

5. 1979

   Mohammad Mofatteh, an Iranian philosopher, was assassinated by the Furqan Group.

6. 1996

   The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.

7. 2017

   An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.

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