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** The Bataan Peninsula falls and the Bataan Death March begins.
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** Oscan, which was spoken in the south-central region of the Italian Peninsula
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** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula ( captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956 ).
** Suez Crisis: Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
** Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula, south of the Chu Lai Marine base.
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** An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.
** Geumwa, king of Dongbuyeo ( located on the Korean Peninsula )
** Man to Machine: Peninsula Logging Online museum exhibit based upon the Clark Kinsey Logging Photographs Collection and the recollections of Harry C. Hall, who worked as a logger on the Olympic Peninsula in the early 20th century.
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** Kola Peninsula, northern Russia
** One such incident was in 711 AD, when Muslim forces invaded the Iberian Peninsula.
** Siege of Yorktown ( 1862 ), a battle that was part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War
** Manila Peninsula Mutiny
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** Indian River ( Manistique River ), in the Upper Peninsula
** Indian River ( Mullett Lake ), in the Lower Peninsula
** Anything of, or relating to, the Italian Peninsula
** Michael Tilson Thomas ( conductor ), the Peninsula Boys Choir, the San Francisco Girls Chorus & the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Stravinsky: Firebird ; The Rite of Spring ; Perséphone
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** and falls
** Earliest day on which Feast of the Holy Family can fall, celebrated on Sunday after Christmas or 30 if Christmas falls on a Sunday.
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** Snow falls in Miami, Florida ( despite its ordinarily tropical climate ) for the only time in its history.
** Rome falls to the Allies, the first Axis capital to fall.
** WWII: The French government flees to Bordeaux and Paris falls under German occupation.
** The city of Khiva falls to Imperial Russian forces, under the command of General Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman.
** The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to 1. 7079 DM, the all-time low so far ; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.
** Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.
** June 19 – the city of Nicaea falls to the Crusaders after a month siege.
** Oran falls to the Almohads.
** the Bloomington meteorite of 1938, which fell in Illinois, United States ( see Meteorite falls )
** The Communist Bloc falls and the Cold War ends ( see Fall of Communism and dissolution of the Soviet Union ), and with it the risk of future attack by Communist Bloc forces including by their combat divers.
** the Johnstown meteorite of 1924, which fell in Colorado, United States ( see meteorite falls )
** Eagle meteorite of 1946, which fell in Nebraska, United States ( see meteorite falls )
** Patti Smith falls off the stage while opening for Bob Seger in Tampa, Florida.
** Exception: If August 15 falls on a Saturday or Monday, there is no obligation to attend Mass.
** Exception: If November 1 falls on a Saturday or Monday, there is no obligation to attend Mass.
** Exception: If December 8 falls on a Sunday, the solemnity is transferred to the following Monday and there is no obligation to attend Mass.
** A fighter falls from a legal blow and is either unconscious or unable to immediately continue.
** Forest City meteorite of 1890, which fell in Iowa, ( see meteorite falls )
** Berlin Wall falls
** 10, 000 hertz, 10 kilohertz, or 10 kHz of the radio frequency spectrum falls in the very low frequency or VLF band and has a wavelength of 30 kilometres.
** 3 Miracles-Breathes life into birds fashioned from clay, curses a boy, who then becomes a corpse, curses a boy who falls dead and his parents become blind
** the Harrison County meteorite of 1859, which landed in Indiana, United States ( see meteorite falls )
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