| 2009 | U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urged countries to agree on a new U. N. pact aimed at averting climate change and global warming |
| 1997 | San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16 |
| 1996 | Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
| 1996 | Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches |
| 1996 | Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches |
| 1995 | Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland |
| 1994 | "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 20 performances |
| 1994 | John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier |
| 1994 | Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia |
| 1993 | C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed |
| 1993 | Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns |
| 1993 | John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops |
| 1993 | Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense |
| 1993 | Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed |
| 1993 | British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination |
| 1992 | Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year |
| 1992 | WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR |
| 1991 | "Nick and Nora" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| 1991 | Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
| 1990 | Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter |
| 1988 | Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston |
| 1986 | 150 killed during race riot in Karachi |
| 1986 | CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure |
| 1986 | Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift |
| 1985 | Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet |
| 1983 | 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage |
| 1983 | Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB |
| 1983 | Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew |
| 1983 | Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants |
| 1982 | Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery |
| 1982 | Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved |
| 1982 | Spain reopens border with Gibraltar |
| 1981 | 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1981 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 1980 | New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M |
| 1980 | Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena |
| 1980 | ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw |
| 1979 | Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama |
| 1979 | World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages |
| 1978 | Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James |
| 1978 | Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore |
| 1976 | Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground |
| 1976 | Jamaica premier Manley wins elections |
| 1974 | A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) |
| 1973 | American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness |
| 1973 | Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens |
| 1973 | Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland |
| 1973 | Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year |
| 1973 | Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game |
| 1973 | U.S. Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 |
| 1970 | S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed |
| 1970 | Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) |
| 1969 | Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom |
| 1969 | San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones |
| 1967 | Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again" |
| 1967 | Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel |
| 1967 | Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hour, 34 die |
| 1966 | "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1966 | Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus |
| 1966 | John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints |
| 1965 | 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River |
| 1965 | Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000 |
| 1965 | D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London |
| 1965 | Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) |
| 1965 | Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde |
| 1965 | William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball |
| 1964 | 1st time 4 people in space |
| 1964 | American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded |
| 1964 | Canada adopts maple leaf flag |
| 1962 | Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 weeks |
| 1961 | Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel |
| 1961 | Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy visits Puerto Rico |
| 1961 | L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels |
| 1960 | King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon |
| 1959 | Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" |
| 1956 | Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes |
| 1956 | KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons |
| 1954 | Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands |
| 1953 | WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances |
| 1952 | Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation |
| 1952 | KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias |
| 1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title |
| 1950 | New York City's Port Authority opens |
| 1949 | Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris |
| 1948 | Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury |
| 1946 | Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game |
| 1946 | Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt |
| 1945 | John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest |
| 1944 | Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms |
| 1944 | U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star |
| 1944 | U.S. troops lands on Mindoro |
| 1942 | Massachusetts issues 1st U.S. vehicular license plate tabs |
| 1941 | Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland |
| 1941 | German submarine U-127 sinks |
| 1941 | North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
| 1941 | USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship |
| 1939 | "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta |
| 1939 | 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware |
| 1939 | Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao |
| 1938 | Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. |
| 1936 | KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) |
| 1935 | Detroit Lions win NFL championship |
| 1935 | Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin |
| 1934 | Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies |
| 1933 | Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15 |
| 1930 | Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw) |
| 1929 | Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro |
| 1927 | Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads |
| 1926 | Facist national symbol elevated in Italy |
| 1925 | 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1 |
| 1925 | 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic |
| 1922 | IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague |
| 1919 | Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence |
| 1918 | American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting |
| 1917 | Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia |
| 1916 | French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun |
| 1914 | Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow |
| 1914 | British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea |
| 1914 | Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary |
| 1909 | Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1899 | Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) |
| 1893 | Dvoraks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall New York City |
| 1891 | James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) |
| 1877 | Thomas Edison patents phonograph |
| 1874 | 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant |
| 1864 | Battle of Nashville, TN |
| 1864 | Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign) |
| 1859 | GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun |
| 1854 | 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia |
| 1836 | Patent Office burns in Wash, DC |
| 1820 | 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston |
| 1815 | Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| 1811 | Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri |
| 1810 | 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published |
| 1794 | Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France |
| 1792 | 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. in Philadelphia |
| 1791 | 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval |
| 1745 | Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen and Austria |
| 1688 | Lord Delamere sides with King James II |
| 1680 | Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal |
| 1667 | Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War |
| 1664 | English colonizing Connecticut |
| 1660 | Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan |
| 1640 | Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal |
| 1612 | Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope |
| 1593 | State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft |
| 1586 | Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp |
| 1582 | Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany/medicine |
| 1582 | Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar |
| 1569 | Westmoreland flees to Scotland |
| 1488 | Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope |
| 1124 | Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II) |
| 687 | St. Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon |
