** Arab League initiative for the peace resolution of the Syrian civil war

** Darfur peace process, an attempt to resolve the War in Darfur, finilized in 2009

** Northern Ireland peace process, efforts from c. 1993 to end " the Troubles "

** Western Sahara peace process-efforts since c. 1991 to solve the Western Sahara crisis

** Ite in pace, glorificando vita vestra Dominum ( Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life )

** Ite in pace ( Go in peace )

** Shalom bayit ( peace and harmony in the relationship between husband and wife )

** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

** PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington D. C., after signing a peace accord.

** The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace process.

** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.

** At a meeting in Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meets with Soviet Ambassador Jakob Suritz, and suggests that a " peace front " comprising France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland and Romania would deter Germany from war.

** Middelburg peace conference fails in South Africa as Boers continue to demand autonomy.

** Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland, claiming to be on a peace mission.

** El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

** Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.

** UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.

** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war ( they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam ).

** Samantha Smith, American peace activist ( d. 1985 )

** Pakistani – Indian peace negotiations end successfully in Tashkent.

** Indonesia asks Malaysia for peace negotiations.

** Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia.

** Philippe Pétain becomes Prime Minister of France and immediately asks Germany for peace terms.

** WWII: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag.

** The largest convoy of the war embarks from Halifax, Nova Scotia under Royal Canadian Navy protection.

** At San Anton, every night about seven, everyone would be summoned for prayer ... Dobbie would stand ... and ... pray ... and .... ask the Almighty to bless the convoy ... but he never prayed to stop the bombing ... that was God's will ... God helps those that help themselves ...

** A merchant aircraft carrier, or " MAC-ship ," puts to sea with a convoy for the first time as MV Empire MacAlpine sets out from the United Kingdom with Convoy ONS 59 bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.

** 46 U. S. bombers attack a Japanese convoy in Bougainville Strait, sinking the seaplane carrier Nisshin.

** Over 100 German aircraft attack an Allied convoy off Cape Bon, Tunisia, but defending British fighters prevent them from inflicting any serious damage.

** 180 Axis aircraft attack an Allied convoy anchored in the harbor at Bizerte, Tunisia, but a smoke screen prevents them from scoring any hits.

** Task Force 58 aircraft attack a Japanese convoy off Kwajalein Atoll and bomb Kwajalein Island, Roi-Namur, Maloelap, and Wotje.

** 112 carrier aircraft of Task Force 58 sink an entire convoy of eight Japanese ships 150 nautical miles ( 278 km ) northwest of Okinawa.

** The final Arctic convoy of World War II, Convoy JW 67, departs Scapa Flow for the Kola Inlet in the Soviet Union escorted by the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen.

** 12 Turkish paratroopers parachute into Cyprus to ambush a convoy carrying the Greek Cypriot commander of the Cypriot Navy, Commander Papayiannis.

** Iraq's prime minister Iyad Allawi escapes an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber in a car attacks his convoy near his home.

** Population ecology: population — competition — mating — biological dispersal — endemism — niche — growth curve — carrying capacity

** The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket ( carrying Sputnik I ) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M. I. T.

** The steamer Danae () carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretans on the first leg of their way to Auschwitz was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.

** An airplane carrying prominent Ustashe general Jure Francetić crashes.

** A boat carrying market traders capsizes outside Freetown harbour, in Sierra Leone, killing at least 86.

** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).

** An accident involving a tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia takes place in Houston, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 7 people.

** The U. S. Navy's Commander Leroy Heath ( the pilot ) and Lieutenant Larry Monroe ( the bombardier / navigator ) establish a world flight-altitude record of 91, 450 feet ( 27, 874 m ), with payload, in an A-5 Vigilante twinjet bomber carrying a 1, 000 kilogram payload, and they better the previous world record by over four miles ( 6 km ).

** STS-45: Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying instruments designed to study global warming.

** The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80, 000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while on approach to La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo.

** A plane carrying U. S. Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana and 3 other men vanishes in Alaska.

** A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.

** An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend district of Azerbaijan.

** Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members.

** The Swansea and Mumbles Railway in South Wales, at this time known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.

** The Hindawi Affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv.

** The cargo ship Khian Sea departs from the docks of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, carrying 14, 000 tons of toxic waste.

** TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group.

** The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 km above the Earth using an Ariane 5 on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8, 500 kg.

** Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female one, docked manually with an orbiting module Tiangong 1, first time as the country, making them as the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.

** Fomite, any inanimate object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms

** Peter Campbell ( Robert Urich )— Burt Campbell's tennis pro son by his first marriage, he is carrying on affairs with both Jessica and Corinne, as well as numerous other women around town.

** The transport ship HMAS Kanimbla carrying 350 crew and soldiers, including embarked Australian Army LCM-8 landing craft and an anti-aircraft contingent, a Sea King helicopter from 817 Squadron RAN, and a bomb disposal team.

** Tinus Nursery web spider carrying egg sac