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The first flight of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tupolev Tu-144">Tupolev Tu-144</a>, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacRobertson_Miller_Airlines_Flight_1750" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750">MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750</a> crashes near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Hedland,_Western_Australia" id="mwAR8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Port Hedland, Western Australia">Port Hedland, Western Australia</a>, killing all 26 people on board.<sup about="#mwt100" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"}}' id="cite_ref-17" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-17" id="mwASA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 17;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASE">[17]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-17"><cite about="#mwt97" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFRanter">Ranter, Harro. <a class="external text" href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19681231-2" id="mwB_E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 720C Viscount VH-RMQ Port Hedland, WA"</a>. <i id="mwB_I">aviation-safety.net</i>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Aviation_Safety_Network" id="mwB_M" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aviation Safety Network">Aviation Safety Network</a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050527210458/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19681231-2" id="mwB_Q" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2005-05-27<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB_U">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB_Y">2021-12-29</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt97" class="Z3988" id="mwB_c" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=aviation-safety.net&amp;rft.atitle=ASN+Aircraft+accident+Vickers+720C+Viscount+VH-RMQ+Port+Hedland%2C+WA&amp;rft.aulast=Ranter&amp;rft.aufirst=Harro&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Faviation-safety.net%2Fdatabase%2Frecord.php%3Fid%3D19681231-2&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+31"></span></span>

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'état" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ghana">Ghana</a> removes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Ghana" id="mwASc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of heads of state of Ghana">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilla_Limann" id="mwASg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hilla Limann">Hilla Limann</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_National_Party_(Ghana)" id="mwASk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People's National Party (Ghana)">PNP</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limann_government" id="mwASo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Limann government">government</a> and replaces it with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_National_Defence_Council" id="mwASs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Provisional National Defence Council">Provisional National Defence Council</a> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_lieutenant" id="mwASw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Flight lieutenant">Flight lieutenant</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rawlings" id="mwAS0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jerry Rawlings">Jerry Rawlings</a>.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&amp;T_Corporation" id="mwATE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="AT&amp;T Corporation">AT&amp;T</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System" id="mwATI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bell System">Bell System</a> is broken up by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" id="mwATM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Federal government of the United States">United States Government</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ward" id="mwATY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Benjamin Ward">Benjamin Ward</a> is appointed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" id="mwATc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York City Police Department">New York City Police Department</a>'s first ever <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans" id="mwATg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="African Americans">African American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Commissioner" id="mwATk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New York City Police Commissioner">police commissioner</a>.

In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" id="mwATw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Nigerian_coup_d'état" id="mwAT0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1983 Nigerian coup d'état">coup d'état</a> led by Major General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari" id="mwAT4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Muhammadu Buhari">Muhammadu Buhari</a> ends the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Nigerian_Republic" id="mwAT8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Nigerian Republic">Second Nigerian Republic</a>.

All official <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwAUM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwAUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">officially dissolved</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" id="mwAUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia" id="mwAUk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dissolution of Czechoslovakia">peacefully dissolved</a> in what is dubbed by media as the <i id="mwAUo">Velvet Divorce</i>, resulting in the creation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic" id="mwAUs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia" id="mwAUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slovakia">Slovak Republic</a>.

This date is skipped altogether in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiribati" id="mwAVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kiribati">Kiribati</a> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Islands" id="mwAVE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Phoenix Islands">Phoenix Islands</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Islands" id="mwAVI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Line Islands">Line Islands</a> change time zones from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC−11:00" id="mwAVM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="UTC−11:00">UTC−11:00</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC+13:00" id="mwAVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="UTC+13:00">UTC+13:00</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC−10:00" id="mwAVU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="UTC−10:00">UTC−10:00</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC+14:00" id="mwAVY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="UTC+14:00">UTC+14:00</a>, respectively.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War" id="mwAVk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Chechen War">First Chechen War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ground_Forces" id="mwAVo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian Ground Forces">Russian Ground Forces</a> begin a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994–95)" id="mwAVs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Grozny (1994–95)">New Year's storming</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grozny" id="mwAVw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Grozny">Grozny</a>.

The final comic of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes" id="mwAWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Calvin and Hobbes">Calvin and Hobbes</a> is published.<sup about="#mwt102" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"CC+H_final_strip"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-CC+H_final_strip-18"}}' id="cite_ref-CC+H_final_strip_18-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-CC+H_final_strip-18" id="mwAWE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 18;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAWI">[18]</span></a></sup>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechanism" id="mwAWY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="European Exchange Rate Mechanism">European Exchange Rate Mechanism</a> freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone" id="mwAWc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eurozone">Eurozone</a>, and establishes the value of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" id="mwAWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Euro">euro</a> currency.

The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Russia" id="mwAWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Russia">President of Russia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin" id="mwAW0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Boris Yeltsin">Boris Yeltsin</a>, resigns from office, leaving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Russia" id="mwAW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prime Minister of Russia">Prime Minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" id="mwAW8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_President_of_Russia" id="mwAXA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Acting President of Russia">acting President</a> and successor.

The U.S. government hands control of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal" id="mwAXM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a> (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" id="mwAXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a>) to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" id="mwAXU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Panama">Panama</a>. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos–Carter_Treaties" id="mwAXY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Torrijos–Carter Treaties">Torrijos–Carter Treaties</a>.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814" id="mwAXk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Indian Airlines Flight 814">Indian Airlines Flight 814</a> hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandahar_Airport" id="mwAXo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kandahar Airport">Kandahar Airport</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" id="mwAXs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.

The last day of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century" id="mwAX8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="20th century">20th Century</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_millennium" id="mwAYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2nd millennium">2nd Millennium</a>.

The official opening of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101" id="mwAYQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Taipei 101">Taipei 101</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_the_world" id="mwAYU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of tallest buildings and structures in the world">tallest</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper" id="mwAYY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Skyscraper">skyscraper</a> at that time in the world, standing at a height of <span about="#mwt103" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"convert","href":"./Template:Convert"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"509"},"2":{"wt":"m"},"3":{"wt":"ft"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwAYc" typeof="mw:Transclusion">509 metres (1,670</span><span about="#mwt103" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><span about="#mwt103">ft)</span>.

Both a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_moon" id="mwAYs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Blue moon">blue moon</a> and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2009_lunar_eclipse" id="mwAYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="December 2009 lunar eclipse">lunar eclipse</a> occur.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_New_Year's_Eve_tornado_outbreak" id="mwAZA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2010 New Year's Eve tornado outbreak">Tornadoes</a> touch down in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" id="mwAZE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Midwestern United States">midwestern</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States" id="mwAZI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Southern United States">southern United States</a>, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County,_Arkansas" id="mwAZM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Washington County, Arkansas">Washington County, Arkansas</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_St._Louis" id="mwAZQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Greater St. Louis">Greater St. Louis</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Hills,_Missouri" id="mwAZU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sunset Hills, Missouri">Sunset Hills, Missouri</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" id="mwAZY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma" id="mwAZc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" id="mwAZs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="NASA">NASA</a> succeeds in putting the first of two <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Recovery_and_Interior_Laboratory" id="mwAZw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory">Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite" id="mwAZ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Satellite">satellites</a> in orbit around the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" id="mwAZ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moon">Moon</a>.

A New Year's Eve celebration <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Shanghai_stampede" id="mwAaI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2014 Shanghai stampede">stampede</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai" id="mwAaM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a> kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Dubai" id="mwAac" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Downtown Dubai">Downtown Dubai</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" id="mwAag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a>, located near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa" id="mwAak" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Burj Khalifa">Burj Khalifa</a>, two hours before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks" id="mwAao" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fireworks">fireworks</a> display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.

Thirty-nine people are killed after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Magnitogorsk_building_collapse" id="mwAa4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse">a ten-story building collapses</a> in the industrial city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitogorsk" id="mwAa8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Magnitogorsk">Magnitogorsk</a>, Russia.<sup about="#mwt108" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"}}' id="cite_ref-19" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-19" id="mwAbA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 19;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAbE">[19]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-19"><cite about="#mwt105" class="citation news cs1" id="mwB_4"><a class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/03/death-toll-rises-in-russian-apartment-block-collapse" id="mwB_8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Death toll rises to 39 in Russian apartment block collapse"</a>. <i id="mwCAA"><a href="./The_Guardian" id="mwCAE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>. 2019-01-03<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCAI">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCAM">2019-01-07</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt105" class="Z3988" id="mwCAQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&amp;rft.atitle=Death+toll+rises+to+39+in+Russian+apartment+block+collapse&amp;rft.date=2019-01-03&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2019%2Fjan%2F03%2Fdeath-toll-rises-in-russian-apartment-block-collapse&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+31"></span></span>

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" id="mwAbU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan" id="mwAbY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wuhan">Wuhan</a>.<sup about="#mwt114" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"}}' id="cite_ref-20" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-20" id="mwAbc" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 20;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAbg">[20]</span></a></sup> This later turned out to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19" id="mwAbk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a>, the cause of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" id="mwAbo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<sup about="#mwt118" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-21" id="mwAbs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAbw">[21]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-20"><cite about="#mwt111" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCAg"><a class="external text" href="https://www.who.int/csr/don/05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unkown-cause-china/en/" id="mwCAk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Pneumonia of unknown cause – China"</a>. <i id="mwCAo">WHO</i>.</cite><span about="#mwt111" class="Z3988" id="mwCAs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=WHO&amp;rft.atitle=Pneumonia+of+unknown+cause+%E2%80%93+China&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fcsr%2Fdon%2F05-january-2020-pneumonia-of-unkown-cause-china%2Fen%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+31"></span></span>

The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine" id="mwAcA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="COVID-19 vaccine">COVID-19 vaccine</a>.<sup about="#mwt124" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"}}' id="cite_ref-22" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-22" id="mwAcE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 22;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAcI">[22]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt128" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-23"}}' id="cite_ref-23" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-23" id="mwAcM" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 23;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAcQ">[23]</span></a></sup>

<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"><cite about="#mwt121" class="citation web cs1" id="mwCCE"><a class="external text" href="https://www.who.int/news/item/31-12-2020-who-issues-its-first-emergency-use-validation-for-a-covid-19-vaccine-and-emphasizes-need-for-equitable-global-access" id="mwCCI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"WHO issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine and emphasizes need for equitable global access"</a>. <i id="mwCCM">www.who.int</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCCQ">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCCU">2021-02-16</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt121" class="Z3988" id="mwCCY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.who.int&amp;rft.atitle=WHO+issues+its+first+emergency+use+validation+for+a+COVID-19+vaccine+and+emphasizes+need+for+equitable+global+access&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fnews%2Fitem%2F31-12-2020-who-issues-its-first-emergency-use-validation-for-a-covid-19-vaccine-and-emphasizes-need-for-equitable-global-access&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+31"></span></span>