Dec. 12, Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan passes away

1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends first Atlantic wireless transmission.

1941 – King George VI crowned Emperor of India.

1988 – 100,000 people killed in Spitak earthquake in Armenia.

2007 – Assassination of Lebanese Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj in car bomb in Baabda.

1866 – Swiss chemist Alfred Werner, the winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was born.

2003 – Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan passes away.

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