| 1997 | MCI Center opens in Washington D.C., Wizards vs SuperSonics |
| 1995 | 17th ACE Cable Awards |
| 1994 | "Cobb" premieres |
| 1994 | Achille Lauro sinks off the coast of Somalia |
| 1994 | Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment |
| 1994 | Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring |
| 1993 | A Websters musical "Sunset Promenade" premieres in LA |
| 1993 | Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11 |
| 1993 | Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start |
| 1993 | Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches |
| 1992 | WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in New York City |
| 1991 | Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with New York Mets |
| 1991 | Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio |
| 1990 | 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany |
| 1990 | 1st time 12 people in space |
| 1990 | 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St. Petersburg (3-2) |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1990 | U.S. 69th manned space mission STS-35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit |
| 1989 | 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (quarterback) |
| 1989 | KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KCAL-TV |
| 1989 | Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India |
| 1988 | "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad" |
| 1988 | 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel |
| 1988 | STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission) |
| 1988 | U.N. votes 151-2 (Isr and U.S.) to move PLO debate to Geneva, British abstains |
| 1987 | Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor |
| 1987 | Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colorado becomes Miss Teen of America |
| 1987 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1986 | Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57 |
| 1985 | "Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 608 performances |
| 1985 | Philipine Chief staff General Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder |
| 1985 | Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win |
| 1984 | Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart |
| 1981 | Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year |
| 1981 | Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM |
| 1981 | Spanish government requests membership in NATO |
| 1980 | 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador |
| 1979 | Crowds attack U.S. embassy at Tripoli Libya |
| 1979 | Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran |
| 1978 | Neil Diamond and Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1 |
| 1978 | Streisand and Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1 |
| 1975 | 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed |
| 1975 | G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as captain vs. WI |
| 1975 | Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms |
| 1975 | Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day) |
| 1974 | Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs |
| 1974 | Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ |
| 1974 | Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days |
| 1973 | 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0) |
| 1973 | Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Washington D.C. opens |
| 1973 | U.S. Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96 |
| 1972 | "December Giant" largest sinkhole in U.S. collapses (Alabama) |
| 1972 | "Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1972 | 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10 |
| 1972 | In 1 of their worst trades Yankees get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen |
| 1971 | Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars |
| 1971 | United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from UK |
| 1971 | Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates |
| 1971 | Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE |
| 1970 | Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus) |
| 1970 | Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London |
| 1969 | "Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1969 | Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City) |
| 1968 | President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor |
| 1967 | 55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1 |
| 1966 | Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East |
| 1964 | Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed |
| 1963 | 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km |
| 1963 | ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965 |
| 1962 | 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto |
| 1961 | Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism |
| 1961 | Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing |
| 1959 | Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus |
| 1958 | 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB) |
| 1958 | Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg |
| 1958 | KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn) |
| 1957 | Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1 |
| 1956 | Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba |
| 1954 | "Hit the Trail" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1954 | Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws |
| 1954 | U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy, Senator-R-Wisconsin, for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor and disrepute" |
| 1952 | 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB) |
| 1952 | 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colorado) |
| 1951 | "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 90 performances |
| 1951 | Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing |
| 1950 | Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight |
| 1948 | Stan Musial is picked NL MVP |
| 1947 | 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (quarterback) |
| 1944 | 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (quarterback) |
| 1944 | General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow |
| 1944 | German troops seize Betuwse dikes |
| 1944 | U.S. 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar |
| 1943 | 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp |
| 1942 | 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago |
| 1941 | Largest roller skating rink (outside of New York City) opens in Peekskill NY |
| 1941 | New York Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry |
| 1941 | Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul |
| 1941 | Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor |
| 1939 | British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC |
| 1939 | NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight |
| 1934 | 5.08-m (200") Mount Palomar Observatory mirror is cast |
| 1933 | 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson) |
| 1933 | Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady," released |
| 1932 | "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network |
| 1929 | 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien |
| 1928 | Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP |
| 1927 | 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385 |
| 1924 | British-German trade agreement signed |
| 1922 | 10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1 |
| 1917 | Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea |
| 1916 | Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract |
| 1914 | Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia |
| 1913 | Archdiocese of Managua created |
| 1913 | Government -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription |
| 1908 | Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3 |
| 1907 | English Professional Football Player's Association forms |
| 1907 | Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1902 | Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer |
| 1901 | Gillette patents 1st disposable razor |
| 1901 | King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades |
| 1900 | South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany |
| 1899 | U.S. and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them |
| 1896 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke," premieres in Berlin |
| 1895 | 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes |
| 1891 | 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes |
| 1887 | Amsterdam's Oscar Carres Circus Theater opens |
| 1887 | Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in U.S. (New York City) |
| 1887 | French president Grevy (80) resigns |
| 1885 | Opera "Regina di Saba," premieres in Vienna |
| 1883 | John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres |
| 1882 | Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium |
| 1877 | Camille Saint-Saens' opera "Samson et Dalila," premieres in Weimar |
| 1868 | 1st British government of Disraeli resigns |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia |
| 1852 | 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor |
| 1848 | Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |
| 1840 | Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris |
| 1840 | Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris) |
| 1840 | William H Harrison elected president of US |
| 1823 | President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine" |
| 1822 | In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US |
| 1816 | 1st savings bank in U.S. opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society) |
| 1813 | Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy |
| 1812 | James Madison re-elected president of U.S., E Gerry vice-pres |
| 1805 | Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz |
| 1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII |
| 1802 | English sell Suriname to Dutch |
| 1790 | Austrian army occupies Brussels |
| 1777 | British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 |
| 1763 | Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing U.S. synagogue) |
| 1697 | St. Paul's Cathedral opens in London |
| 1682 | English earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam |
| 1620 | English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam |
