Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 18

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 * 1499 – Muslims in Granada began a rebellion against their Castilian rulers in response to forced conversions to Catholicism.
 * 1867 – In Angola, New York, the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed, plunged 40 ft down a gully, and caught fire, resulting in approximately 49 deaths.
 * 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat (pictured) set the first official land speed record, averaging 63.16 km/h (39.245 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in Achères, France.
 * 1913 – The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.
 * 1939 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe won a victory over the Royal Air Force in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, greatly influencing both sides' future aerial warfare strategy.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1979 – Mohammad Mofatteh, an Iranian philosopher, was assassinated by the Furqan Group.
 * 1996 – The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.
 * 2009 – The Copenhagen Summit on climate change ended with the drafting of the non-binding Copenhagen Accord.


 * Born/died: | Charles Wesley |b|1707| James Watney |b|1800| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |d|1829| Henrietta Edwards |b|1849| Lionel Monckton |b|1861| Robert Moses |b|1888| Edwin Howard Armstrong |b|1890| Lotta Bromé |b|1964| Alexei Kosygin |d|1980| Tara Conner |b|1985|Kim Jong-hyun |d|2017|