| 2012 | Japan holds it's general election, with Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister and opposition Liberal Democratic Party leader, predicted as winner |
| 2012 | Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa, challenges party leadership by President Jacob Zuma at the opening of the African National Congress (ANC) |
| 2011 | A budget agreement is reached by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives |
| 2011 | A report claiming nearly all research on chimpanzees is scientifically unjustified causes the U.S. National Institute of Health to place a moratorium on new studies using chimpanzees |
| 2010 | Tibet's Galongla Tunnel, built at an altitude of 3,750 meters, is completed, linking Medog county to the outside world |
| 2010 | A loan of 22.5bn euro to the Republic of Ireland is approved by the International Monetary Fund |
| 1997 | President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy" |
| 1994 | Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI |
| 1993 | "Red Shoes" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1993 | Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from Beverly Hills 90210 |
| 1991 | Florida Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez |
| 1991 | U.N. reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote |
| 1990 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti |
| 1990 | KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions |
| 1989 | Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL) |
| 1989 | Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia |
| 1988 | Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud |
| 1987 | Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea |
| 1985 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-L mission |
| 1983 | Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding |
| 1983 | Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time |
| 1982 | Tom Seaver agrees to new contract with Mets |
| 1981 | Dutch Van Agt's 2nd government falls |
| 1980 | Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State |
| 1979 | 68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0) |
| 1979 | Quarterback Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1978 | Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR |
| 1976 | Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief U.S. Delegate to UN |
| 1976 | Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins |
| 1976 | Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis |
| 1976 | Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea |
| 1975 | 1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV |
| 1975 | Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | O. J. Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season |
| 1972 | Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect |
| 1972 | Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0) |
| 1971 | Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan |
| 1971 | Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released |
| 1971 | India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders |
| 1970 | 1st successful landing on Venus (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty |
| 1969 | "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing |
| 1968 | KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago |
| 1966 | Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK |
| 1966 | Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK |
| 1965 | Gemini 6 returns to Earth |
| 1965 | Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit |
| 1965 | Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga |
| 1964 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| 1962 | David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" premieres |
| 1962 | New York Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31) |
| 1962 | Nepal gets constitution/becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy |
| 1961 | "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden New York City after 55 performances |
| 1960 | "Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 172 performances |
| 1960 | TWA 266 and United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134 |
| 1959 | Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48 |
| 1958 | Bogota warehouse fire kills 82 |
| 1956 | "Fanny" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 888 performances |
| 1953 | 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters) |
| 1953 | Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A |
| 1950 | "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1950 | Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism" |
| 1949 | Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier |
| 1948 | "Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater New York City for 460 performances |
| 1945 | Cleveland Rams win NFL championship |
| 1944 | Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium |
| 1944 | General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie |
| 1944 | German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill) |
| 1944 | U.S. 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid |
| 1943 | "Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 and injures 200 |
| 1942 | Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan |
| 1941 | Sarawak occupied by Japanese |
| 1940 | British air raid on Mannheim |
| 1940 | Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago |
| 1939 | Bradman scores 251* SA vs. NSW, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 143 South Australia vs. NSW, 11 fours 91 singles |
| 1936 | John Monks/Fred Finklehoff's "Brother Rat," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Abe de Vries and Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht |
| 1932 | Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed |
| 1931 | German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism |
| 1930 | Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award |
| 1929 | Chicago Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1 |
| 1927 | Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW vs. South Australia |
| 1926 | Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot," premieres in Paris |
| 1926 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner |
| 1926 | WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions |
| 1924 | Noel Coward's "Vortex," premieres in London |
| 1922 | Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs formally organizes |
| 1922 | NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket |
| 1920 | 8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die |
| 1918 | Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds |
| 1915 | Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity |
| 1914 | French offensive in Artois (Petain) |
| 1913 | Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week |
| 1912 | 1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued |
| 1912 | Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia |
| 1909 | U.S. pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office |
| 1908 | 1st credit union in U.S. forms, Manchester, New Hampshire |
| 1907 | Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Brooklyn Navy Yard New York) |
| 1907 | Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise |
| 1905 | "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published |
| 1903 | Majestic Theater, New York City, becomes 1st in U.S. to employ women ushers |
| 1901 | Boer general Kritzinger captured |
| 1900 | Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony |
| 1897 | 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated |
| 1893 | Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres |
| 1892 | Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA vs. NSW |
| 1886 | Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over "Doleantie" |
| 1884 | Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
| 1880 | Republic of South Africa forms |
| 1877 | Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres |
| 1864 | Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities |
| 1862 | Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution |
| 1858 | Dutch government decides to vacate Schokland Island |
| 1857 | Earthquake in Naples, Italy |
| 1838 | Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa |
| 1835 | Fire consumes over 600 buildings in New York City |
| 1824 | Great North Holland Canal opens |
| 1817 | Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon |
| 1811 | 8.0 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri |
| 1809 | Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate |
| 1773 | Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party) |
| 1767 | Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premiers |
| 1761 | Russian army occupies Kolberg |
| 1740 | Prussian Libya falls to Silezie |
| 1689 | English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution |
| 1659 | General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland |
| 1653 | Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector |
| 1631 | Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000 |
| 1617 | Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata (Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay) |
| 1577 | Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory |
| 1538 | King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants |
| 1431 | King Henry VI of England crowned king of France |
| 882 | Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII |
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