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1.12 December events

• December 1 – Italian House of Representatives accepts the divorce law.
• December 1 – Ethiopia recognizes People's Republic of China.
• December 1 – Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastian.
• December 1 – Luis Echeverria Alvarez becomes president of Mexico.
• December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• December 3 - October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de Libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants five terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
• December 3 – Burgos Trial - In Burgos, Spain, begins a trial against 16 basques accused of terrorism.
• December 4 – Spanish government declares a three-month martial law in Basque county of Guipuzco due to strikes and demonstrations.
• December 5 – Asian and Australian tour of Paul VI ends.
• December 7 – Giovanni Enrico Bucher , Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand release of 70 political prisoners.
• December 7 – UN general assembly supports the isolation of South Africa due to its apartheid policies.
• December 12 – Landslide in western Colombia – over 200 dead.
• December 13 – Government of Poland announces increases in the prize of food. Riots and looting erupt until a bloody confrontation between the rioters against army and the police in December 15. Martial law December 17-22. December 23 the government will freeze the food prizes for two years.
• December 15 – Venus 7 lands on Venus.
• December 16 – Ethiopian government declares state of emergency in the county of Eritrea due to activities of Eritrea Liberation Front .
• December 20 – General secretary of the communist part of Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka, resigns – Edward Gierek takes his place.
• December 20 – Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid .
• December 22 – Libyan revolutionary council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
• December 22 - Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• December 23 – Bolivian government releases Regis Debray.
• December 25 – ETA releases Eugen Beihl .
• December 27 – Indian president declares new elections.
• December 28 – Burgos Trial – three Basques are sentenced to death (three twice), others sentenced for 12-62 years and one released. December 30 Franco commutes the death sentences to 30 years in prison.
• December 28 – Suspects of killing Pierre Laporte, Jacques & Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
• December 30 – In Viscaya Basque county 15.000 goes to strike to protest Burgos trial death sentences.

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