| 2004 | Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa |
| 2003 | Earthquake kills more than 30,000 in Bam, Iran |
| 1995 | Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL vs. Australia, MCG) |
| 1995 | Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds |
| 1994 | Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27) |
| 1994 | French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille |
| 1994 | President brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25) |
| 1993 | Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed |
| 1993 | Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41) |
| 1993 | Floyd, Nicklaus and Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn |
| 1992 | NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 |
| 1991 | Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years |
| 1991 | Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction |
| 1991 | Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India |
| 1991 | New York Islander Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with second left |
| 1990 | Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship |
| 1990 | Reggie Williams becomes 1st General Manager of WLAF's NY-New Jersey Knights |
| 1990 | Senior Professional Baseball Association folds |
| 1989 | ODI debut for Mark Taylor and Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG |
| 1988 | "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 64 performances |
| 1988 | Anti African student rebellion in China PR |
| 1987 | "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik |
| 1986 | Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed |
| 1986 | Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games |
| 1986 | TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run |
| 1985 | Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, vs. India at the MCG |
| 1984 | Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este |
| 1983 | Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs. Pakistan MCG |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | TIME's Man of the Year is a computer |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1981 | One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Australia vs. WI |
| 1978 | India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1976 | "Music Is" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1975 | 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144) |
| 1975 | A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket |
| 1974 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout |
| 1973 | "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres |
| 1973 | 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours |
| 1973 | Soyuz 13 returns to Earth |
| 1968 | Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1 |
| 1968 | Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge |
| 1968 | Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against New York Rangers in New York's MSG |
| 1967 | BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour" |
| 1967 | Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands |
| 1966 | Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday |
| 1965 | "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway |
| 1965 | Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game |
| 1964 | Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1964 | Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game |
| 1963 | "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| 1963 | Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There" |
| 1963 | U.S. furnishes cereal to U.S.S.R. |
| 1960 | "Do Re Mi" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 400 performances |
| 1960 | Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in New York City |
| 1960 | Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game |
| 1957 | Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London |
| 1955 | Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating LA 38-14 |
| 1955 | RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV |
| 1954 | "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio |
| 1954 | Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10 |
| 1950 | Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs) |
| 1948 | Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested |
| 1947 | "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater New York City for 34 performances |
| 1947 | British transfer Heard and McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia |
| 1947 | Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F |
| 1946 | "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 111 performances |
| 1946 | "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater New York City for 60 performances |
| 1946 | 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0) |
| 1946 | Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era) |
| 1944 | Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans |
| 1944 | Budapest surrounded by soviet army |
| 1944 | Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago |
| 1943 | British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst |
| 1943 | Chicago Bears win NFL championship |
| 1943 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing" |
| 1940 | 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148 |
| 1940 | JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey |
| 1939 | Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out |
| 1938 | Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs. South Africa |
| 1936 | Israel Philarmonic Orchestra forms |
| 1935 | Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth" |
| 1934 | Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms |
| 1933 | Bradman scores 187* NSW vs. Victoria, 294 minutes, 13 fours |
| 1933 | U.S. forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere |
| 1932 | Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China |
| 1931 | George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in New York City |
| 1931 | Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy |
| 1931 | SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten |
| 1928 | Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming |
| 1928 | World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic |
| 1926 | Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan |
| 1925 | 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans |
| 1925 | NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1 |
| 1925 | Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar |
| 1925 | New York's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70 |
| 1924 | Judy Garland, 2, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut |
| 1919 | Yankees and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth |
| 1918 | 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Australia after WW I (Vic vs. NSW) |
| 1917 | 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron |
| 1917 | Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I |
| 1916 | Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France |
| 1908 | Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1902 | Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42) |
| 1899 | Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed |
| 1892 | Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala) |
| 1890 | King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company |
| 1879 | John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres |
| 1878 | 1st U.S. store to install electric lights, Philadelphia |
| 1877 | Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention |
| 1872 | 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18") |
| 1865 | James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st U.S. coffee percolator |
| 1862 | Battle of Dumfries, VA |
| 1862 | 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service |
| 1862 | 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising |
| 1860 | Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) |
| 1860 | Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter |
| 1854 | Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo |
| 1848 | 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF |
| 1848 | William and Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia |
| 1831 | Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan |
| 1830 | Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan |
| 1825 | Erie Canal opens |
| 1813 | Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies |
| 1809 | English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen |
| 1805 | France and Austria signs Peace of Pressburg |
| 1805 | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia |
| 1799 | George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen" |
| 1776 | Battle of Trenton-major British defeat |
| 1776 | George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton |
| 1773 | Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia |
| 1748 | France and Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands |
| 1659 | Long Parliament reforms in Westminster |
| 1620 | Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA |
| 1568 | Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada |
| 1492 | 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus |
| 1481 | Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht |
| 1198 | French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest |
| 795 | St. Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 418 | St. Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 268 | St. Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
