The Canadian satellite Alouette 2 is launched. December 5 Charles de Gaulle is re-elected as French president with 10,828,421 votes. The "Glasnost Meeting" in Moscow becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union. December 8 Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith warns that Rhodesia will resist a trade embargo by neighboring countries with force. The Race Relations Act becomes the first legislation to address racial discrimination in the UK. The Second Vatican Council closes. December 15 The Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) is formed. Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 perform the first controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit. December 20 – The World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations. December 21 The Soviet Union announces that it has shipped rockets to North Vietnam. In West Germany, Konrad Adenauer resigns as chairman of the Christian Democratic Party. The United Nations adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. A new 1-hour German-American production of the ballet The Nutcracker, with an international cast that includes Edward Villella in the title role, makes its U.S. television debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next 3 years but after that is virtually forgotten until issued on DVD in 2009 by Warner Archive. December 22 A military coup is launched in Dahomey. A speed limit is imposed on British roads. David Lean's film of Doctor Zhivago, starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, is released. December 25 – The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz. December 30 President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces that Zambia and the United Kingdom have agreed on a deadline before which the Rhodesian white government should be ousted. Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines. December 31 – Bokassa takes power in the Central African Republic. Date unknown Tokyo officially becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from New York City. Aborigines are given the vote in Queensland, Australia. World population Births January January 4 Julia Ormond, British actress Yvan Attal, Israeli-born French actor and director January 5 Vinnie Jones, British footballer-turned-actor Patrik Sjöberg, Swedish high jumper January 9 Haddaway, German singer Farah Khan, Indian choreographer, film director Joely Richardson, British actress January 10 – Butch Hartman, American animator and voice actor January 12 Nikolai Borschevsky, Russian ice hockey player Maybrit Illner, German television journalist and