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- 220
- Cao Wei dynasty is established in present-day China.
- 1571
- The province of Pampanga is created in the Philippines.
- 1659
- Courlanders surrender the colony of New Courland to the Dutch.
- 1830
- Panama rejoins Colombia.
- 1931
- Canada becomes part of the British Commonwealth upon adoption of the Statute of Westminster.
- 1943
- The Booker T Club, a nightclub established by the American Red Cross for people with African or Aboriginal backgrounds, is opened in Sydney, New South Wales.
- 1985
- Free weekend service starts on SkyTrain in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1997
- The Odeon cinema opens in Kettering.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on December 11, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on December 11 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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