| 2012 | Ballerina Natalia Makarova, blues legend Buddy Guy, actor Dustin Hoffman, American television host David Letterman, and surviving members of Led Zeppelin, receive 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for their contributions to American culture |
| 2012 | Italian voters select center-left candidate Pier Luigi Bersani as their new Prime Minister |
| 2011 | John Corzine, former Governor of New Jersey, is issued a subpoena over the collapse of MF Global and disappearance of customer funds |
| 2011 | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promotes democratic reforms in her meeting with Burma's top pro-democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi |
| 2010 | Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus claims innocence while being investigated for diverting millions of dollars of aid money from Grameen Bank |
| 2010 | Booksellers object to plans for the UK and Ireland to make more than a million free books available March 5, 2011 |
| 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 |
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