December 31, 2014 in History

Event:

A ship carrying 900 Syrians is intercepted and safely brought to shore by the Italian coast guard; the ship had been manned by human traffickers who abandoned the vessel after setting the navigation system on a collision course with the Italian coast





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1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
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