| 2012 | Toyota Motor Corporation agrees to pay $1 billion to settle over a dozen lawsuits related to sudden acceleration |
| 2012 | In his first political speech, marking the five-year anniversary of his mother's death, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, vows to maintain democracy and fight militancy |
| 2011 | Consumers spend over $30 billion on online holiday shopping in the U.S., a 15 percent increase over last year |
| 2011 | Sears Holding Corporation reveals its plan to close over 100 Sears and K-Mart stores in the U.S. |
| 2010 | Bolivian President Alvaro Garcia Linera prompts bus drivers to strike after announcing an 83% increase in the price of gasoline and a 73% increase in the price of diesel fuel |
| 2010 | Lawyers for Allen Stanford, a man charged with running a $7 billion ponzi scheme, seek to postpone his trial for two years |
| 2007 | Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a bomb blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
| 1996 | Carquest Bowl 7: Miami beats Virginia, 31-21 |
| 1995 | Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 vs. SL, MCG) |
| 1993 | "Candles, Snow, and Mistletoe" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1993 | Actress Teri Garr weds John O'Neil |
| 1993 | Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93 |
| 1992 | "3 From Brooklyn" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1992 | "Les Miserables" opens at Ostregaswerks, Copenhagen |
| 1992 | "Tommy Tune Tonite! Song and Dance Act" opens at Gershwin New York City for 10 per |
| 1992 | 13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000 |
| 1992 | Harry Connick, Jr. is caught with 9mm gun in New York's JFK airport |
| 1992 | Nancy Sheehan wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament |
| 1991 | "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV |
| 1991 | Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32) |
| 1991 | Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawks coach |
| 1989 | Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games |
| 1988 | Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades |
| 1987 | Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1986 | "Les Miserables" opens at Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. |
| 1986 | 10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young and Restless wins |
| 1985 | Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi |
| 1984 | Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with New York Yankees |
| 1983 | Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) |
| 1983 | Propane gas fire devastated 16 blocks of Buffalo |
| 1982 | Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory vs. India at Karachi |
| 1981 | Lillee becomes the leading wicket-taker in Test Crickets with 310 |
| 1981 | Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 pts (38th game) |
| 1981 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78 |
| 1979 | "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1979 | Red Army beats New York Rangers 5-2 at MSG |
| 1979 | Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown |
| 1978 | King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution |
| 1976 | Albania constitution goes into effect |
| 1975 | Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India) |
| 1974 | 40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
| 1974 | Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years |
| 1974 | FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | Los Angeles Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8 |
| 1972 | "Purlie" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1972 | Belgium recognizes East Germany |
| 1972 | Los Angeles Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak |
| 1972 | New North Korean constitution comes into effect |
| 1970 | "Hello, Dolly!" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 2844 performances |
| 1968 | Apollo 8 returns to Earth |
| 1968 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1966 | "At the Drop of Another Hat" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 105 performances |
| 1964 | Cleveland Browns beat Baltimore Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game |
| 1962 | 28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (quarterback) |
| 1961 | "Subways Are for Sleeping" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 205 performances |
| 1961 | Belgium and Congo resume diplomatic relations |
| 1961 | Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping," premieres |
| 1960 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1959 | Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game |
| 1956 | 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0) |
| 1956 | Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
| 1954 | "Saint of Bleecker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances |
| 1954 | Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game |
| 1951 | 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2) |
| 1949 | Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia |
| 1949 | United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands |
| 1947 | 1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC |
| 1945 | Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded |
| 1944 | Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London |
| 1943 | France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese government |
| 1943 | German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea |
| 1943 | Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower and Bedell Smith |
| 1942 | 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use |
| 1942 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14 |
| 1941 | Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city" |
| 1941 | Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony |
| 1939 | 1st American skimobiles, North Conway, New Hampshire |
| 1939 | Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey) |
| 1939 | Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die |
| 1937 | Bradman scores 246 SA vs. Queensland, 364 minutes, 20 fours |
| 1937 | German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany |
| 1937 | Mae West performs Adam and Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio |
| 1934 | 1st youth hostel in U.S. opens (Northfield, Mass) |
| 1934 | Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran |
| 1934 | Vernon Duke and James Hanley's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | Radio City Music Hall opens (New York City) |
| 1927 | Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Philip Barry's "Paris Bound," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in U.S.S.R., Trotsky expelled |
| 1926 | Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square |
| 1926 | Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st U.S. Jewish soldier to die in WW I |
| 1923 | Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan |
| 1919 | Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season |
| 1906 | 1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI |
| 1905 | M A Noble scores 281 (369 minutes, 21 fours) NSW vs. Victoria |
| 1904 | Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan) |
| 1904 | W B Yeats/Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand," premieres in Dublin |
| 1903 | "Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung |
| 1900 | Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS) |
| 1897 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2 |
| 1892 | Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St. John laid (New York City) |
| 1892 | N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game |
| 1887 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" |
| 1884 | Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State |
| 1871 | World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London) |
| 1867 | Ontario and Quebec legislatures hold 1st meeting |
| 1862 | Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou) |
| 1862 | Battle of Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
| 1850 | Hawaiian Fire Department established |
| 1845 | Ether 1st used in childbirth in U.S., Jefferson, Ga |
| 1836 | Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex) |
| 1831 | Darwin begins his voyage on board HMS Beagle |
| 1831 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin depart England for South America |
| 1825 | 1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England |
| 1741 | Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia |
| 1703 | England and Portugal sign Methuen-Asiento-trade agreement |
| 1679 | Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java |
| 1503 | Battle at Garigliano, Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France |
| 1437 | Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia |
| 537 | St. Sofia-church in Constantinople, initiated |
| 418 | [Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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