| 2012 | U.S. Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, emboldened by the passage of a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution last month, declared marijuana legal for recreational use |
| 2012 | In Oslo, Norway, leaders of the European Union accept the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 2011 | Mexico's state of Guerrero is hit by a 6.5 magnitude earthquake |
| 2011 | In a second consecutive mandate, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is sworn in as President of Argentina |
| 2010 | The U.S. announces it has no clear record of ownership or records of access for over 119,000 private planes |
| 2010 | An archive documenting the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda is revealed in the capital city of Kigali |
| 1995 | 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81 |
| 1995 | Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
| 1995 | Michael Slater scores 219 vs. Sri Lanka at the WACA |
| 1995 | Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617 |
| 1995 | Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Australia vs. Sri Lanka, WACA) |
| 1995 | Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours, Starting December 9th at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982 |
| 1994 | 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB) |
| 1994 | European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins |
| 1994 | Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat |
| 1993 | Dow Jones hits record 3740.67 |
| 1992 | "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| 1992 | NHL awards franchises to Mimai and Anaheim (for 1994-95) |
| 1992 | New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key |
| 1992 | Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record) |
| 1991 | "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 32 performances |
| 1991 | IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for one day |
| 1991 | Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner |
| 1990 | Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die |
| 1990 | Soyuz TM-10 lands |
| 1990 | Space Shuttle STS-35 (Columbia 11) lands |
| 1989 | President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns |
| 1988 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens |
| 1987 | "Nightline" is seen in U.S.S.R. for 1st time |
| 1986 | Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1986 | Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1985 | Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress |
| 1985 | Junta leaders Videla and Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires |
| 1984 | 1st planet outside our solar system discovered |
| 1984 | South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1984 | WNSY-AM in Newport News Virginia returns from WGH |
| 1983 | 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76) |
| 1983 | Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1983 | Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat New York Jets 34-7 |
| 1983 | Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president |
| 1982 | Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas |
| 1982 | Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off |
| 1981 | El Salvador army kills 900 |
| 1981 | Jules Feiffer's "Grownups," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1979 | Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament |
| 1978 | "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 33 performances |
| 1978 | 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1) |
| 1978 | In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1978 | Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians |
| 1977 | Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 1976 | Wings release triple album "Wings Over America" |
| 1975 | Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1975 | Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ |
| 1974 | European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament |
| 1974 | Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun |
| 1974 | Space probe Helios 1 launched |
| 1973 | Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in New York, to become WWF champ |
| 1973 | 1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith and J Connors) |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace |
| 1971 | William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
| 1970 | North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises |
| 1968 | Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1966 | Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| 1966 | Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken |
| 1965 | "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| 1965 | Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia |
| 1965 | Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters vs. England at the Gabba |
| 1963 | 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show |
| 1963 | Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth |
| 1962 | Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years |
| 1961 | Dr. Ruth marries Fred Westheimer |
| 1961 | Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground) |
| 1961 | U.S.S.R. and Albania break diplomatic relations |
| 1958 | 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 |
| 1958 | University of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates |
| 1956 | Establishment of MPLA in Angola |
| 1954 | Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1954 | Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium |
| 1953 | "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial New York City for 229 performances |
| 1953 | KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins |
| 1952 | Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
| 1952 | WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
| 1950 | Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1948 | U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| 1947 | U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement |
| 1945 | Australia Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts |
| 1945 | Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car |
| 1944 | 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis |
| 1944 | German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar |
| 1943 | British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy |
| 1942 | Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people" |
| 1942 | North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim |
| 1941 | British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore |
| 1941 | Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines |
| 1941 | Japanese troops overrun Guam |
| 1940 | British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani) |
| 1939 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat New York Giants 27-0 |
| 1939 | KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary |
| 1938 | 26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7 |
| 1938 | Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood |
| 1936 | King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson |
| 1936 | Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry |
| 1936 | England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI |
| 1935 | A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000 |
| 1935 | White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000 |
| 1934 | Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp |
| 1934 | NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season |
| 1934 | Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite |
| 1932 | King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution |
| 1931 | Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1931 | Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain |
| 1929 | Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st |
| 1927 | Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN |
| 1926 | 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS) |
| 1926 | 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published |
| 1925 | George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel |
| 1924 | Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years |
| 1924 | Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine |
| 1923 | Polish government of Grabski, forms |
| 1922 | Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein |
| 1922 | Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards |
| 1919 | NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers |
| 1919 | NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties |
| 1919 | Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson |
| 1918 | John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1915 | 1,000,000th model T Ford assembled |
| 1915 | President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt |
| 1914 | French government returns to Paris |
| 1913 | Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics |
| 1911 | Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of U.S. by airplane (84 days) |
| 1911 | Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace |
| 1910 | JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics |
| 1907 | Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature |
| 1906 | President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1904 | King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime |
| 1903 | Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie |
| 1901 | 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy) |
| 1899 | British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa |
| 1899 | Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army |
| 1899 | Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang," premieres in Berlin |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam |
| 1896 | 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3) |
| 1896 | Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," premieres in Paris |
| 1887 | Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great Britain signs military treaty of Balkan |
| 1882 | John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres |
| 1869 | Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st) |
| 1864 | General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins |
| 1831 | "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet) |
| 1817 | Mississippi admitted as 20th state |
| 1816 | Dutch regain Sumatra |
| 1810 | Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds) |
| 1799 | Metric system established in France |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester |
| 1690 | Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money |
| 1688 | King James II flees London |
| 1672 | New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston |
| 1652 | Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet |
| 1582 | France begins use of Gregorian calendar |
| 1520 | Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant |
| 1508 | League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice) |
| 1294 | Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th) |
| 741 | Zacharias becomes Pope |
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