Today in history: Dec. 12
In 2015, nearly 200 nations meeting in Paris adopted the first global pact to fight climate change, and more events that happened on this day in history.
1913: "Mona Lisa"
In 1913, authorities in Florence, Italy, announced that the “Mona Lisa,” stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, had been recovered.
1915: Frank Sinatra
In 1915, singer-actor Frank Sinatra was born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey.
1917: Edward Flanagan
In 1917, Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska.
1939: Douglas Fairbanks
In 1939, swashbuckling actor Douglas Fairbanks died in Santa Monica, California, at age 56.
1977: "Saturday Night Fever"
In 1977, the dance movie “Saturday Night Fever,” starring John Travolta, premiered in New York.
1985: Plane Crash
In 1985, 248 American soldiers and eight crew members were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.
1997: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez
In 1997, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. (Ramirez was convicted and is serving a life prison sentence.)
2000: George W. Bush
In 2000, George W. Bush became president-elect as a divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida’s contested election.
2010: Metrodome
In 2010, the inflatable roof of the Minneapolis Metrodome collapsed following a snowstorm that had dumped 17 inches on the city. (The NFL was forced to shift an already rescheduled game between the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants to Detroit’s Ford Field.)
2015: Paris Climate Agreement
In 2015, nearly 200 nations meeting in Paris adopted the first global pact to fight climate change, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse gas pollution but imposing no sanctions on countries that didn’t do so.
2020: Donald Trump
In 2020, thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump gathered in Washington for rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden.
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