| 2012 | Outgoing U.S. Senator Jim DeMint is replaced by GOP Congressman Tim Scott, the first black senator from the South since 1881 |
| 2012 | Ceremonies commemorating the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il were held outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum in Pyongyang; the nation observed three-minutes of silence to honor him |
| 2011 | In the Philippines, flash floods from Tropical Storm Washi killed at least 400 people, with more missing |
| 2011 | Protesters in Cario's Tahir Square are beaten by Egyptian Army soldiers in a second day of skirmishes resulting in 10 deaths and hundreds of injured |
| 2010 | The first ever HIV infection is announced in the Cook Islands |
| 2010 | The United Kingdom gives prisoners serving less than four years the right to vote |
| 2004 | President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director |
| 1995 | "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| 1994 | KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service |
| 1993 | Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin |
| 1993 | Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54) |
| 1993 | Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse |
| 1993 | Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27) |
| 1992 | "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 22 performances |
| 1992 | General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus |
| 1991 | Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts |
| 1991 | NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80 |
| 1991 | Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago |
| 1991 | Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode |
| 1990 | KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions |
| 1989 | 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2) |
| 1989 | Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president |
| 1989 | Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA vs. WA) |
| 1989 | Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 1988 | 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1) |
| 1988 | Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Caps) |
| 1988 | New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2 |
| 1988 | USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns |
| 1986 | U.S. Congress forms Irangate committee |
| 1986 | Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England) |
| 1984 | New Jersey Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton |
| 1984 | New Jersey Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0 |
| 1983 | "Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1983 | Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured |
| 1983 | Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die |
| 1981 | Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier |
| 1980 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | Mauritania provisional constitution published |
| 1979 | Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph |
| 1978 | OPEC raises oil prices 18% |
| 1978 | Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda |
| 1977 | Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia vs. India at the WACA, aged 41 |
| 1977 | Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st U.S. TV appearance (SNL) |
| 1977 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1976 | Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national |
| 1975 | 1st time New York Islanders shut-out New York Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th |
| 1975 | Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life |
| 1973 | Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait |
| 1972 | New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan |
| 1972 | WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1971 | "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US |
| 1971 | Cease fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir |
| 1971 | Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting |
| 1970 | Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show |
| 1969 | USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings |
| 1967 | WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland and Supremes concert |
| 1965 | British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia |
| 1965 | David Levy begins his search for comets |
| 1965 | Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine |
| 1963 | Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea |
| 1963 | West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules |
| 1962 | Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places) |
| 1962 | Current constitution of Monaco promulgated |
| 1961 | Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil |
| 1961 | India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies |
| 1961 | Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die |
| 1960 | "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 835 performances |
| 1960 | "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 448 performances |
| 1960 | Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio," premieres |
| 1959 | "On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain |
| 1959 | 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach) |
| 1957 | U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile |
| 1954 | 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana) |
| 1954 | WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
| 1953 | FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications |
| 1951 | Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants |
| 1949 | "Regina" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 86 performances |
| 1949 | Burma recognizes People's Republic of China |
| 1947 | NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow |
| 1947 | WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | Bradman and Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea |
| 1946 | U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM |
| 1944 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| 1944 | Japanese-Americans released from detention camps |
| 1944 | M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St |
| 1944 | U.S. Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast |
| 1944 | U.S. destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed |
| 1943 | Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1942 | Allies in London sentence German war criminals |
| 1941 | Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor |
| 1941 | German submarine U-31 sunk |
| 1941 | German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
| 1940 | British troops occupies Sollum |
| 1939 | German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay |
| 1938 | Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire |
| 1936 | Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV |
| 1933 | B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, England vs. India at Bombay |
| 1933 | Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118) |
| 1933 | Spain's 2nd Government of Lerroux forms |
| 1933 | NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game |
| 1932 | Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll |
| 1928 | John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea |
| 1927 | U.S. submarine 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard |
| 1927 | Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437 |
| 1926 | German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army |
| 1926 | KYA-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions |
| 1926 | Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras |
| 1925 | Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination |
| 1925 | Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact |
| 1924 | 1st U.S. diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, New York |
| 1923 | Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic |
| 1922 | Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate |
| 1920 | AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it |
| 1920 | British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru |
| 1920 | Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands |
| 1920 | South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa |
| 1919 | Austria parliament approves 8-hour day |
| 1914 | Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland |
| 1914 | Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate |
| 1914 | Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities |
| 1909 | Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels |
| 1907 | Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan |
| 1903 | At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright) |
| 1902 | Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist," premieres in Berlin |
| 1900 | 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy |
| 1900 | New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million |
| 1895 | Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C. |
| 1895 | George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass) |
| 1893 | Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France |
| 1892 | Tsjaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1887 | Georges Feydeaus' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris |
| 1885 | France declares Madagascar a protectorate |
| 1875 | Violent bread riots in Montreal |
| 1865 | Franz Schubert's "Unvolendete" Symphony," premieres |
| 1864 | Battle of Franklin, TN |
| 1862 | General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee |
| 1860 | Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County |
| 1852 | 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized |
| 1832 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire |
| 1821 | Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons |
| 1819 | Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain |
| 1798 | 1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins |
| 1792 | Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city |
| 1791 | New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street |
| 1790 | Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City |
| 1788 | Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov |
| 1777 | France recognizes independence of English colonies in America |
| 1777 | ,George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pennsylvania |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland |
| 1728 | Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue |
| 1718 | England declares war on Spain |
| 1638 | French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine |
| 1587 | Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands |
| 1572 | Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands |
| 1538 | Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII |
| 1526 | Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia |
| 1526 | Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition |
| 283 | St. Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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