| 2006 | Ethiopian troops eject the Islamic forces from Mogadishu, Somalia |
| 1997 | Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30 |
| 1997 | Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu |
| 1997 | Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care |
| 1997 | Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China |
| 1996 | "Dreams and Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City |
| 1996 | "Skylight" closes at Royale Theater New York City after |
| 1996 | "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater New York City |
| 1994 | B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed |
| 1994 | Bangladesh government of Zia resigns |
| 1994 | Billionaire J Paul Getty, Jr. marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados |
| 1994 | Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down |
| 1994 | Shane Warne takes a hat-trick vs. England at cricket MCG |
| 1993 | Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment |
| 1993 | Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed) |
| 1992 | Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr. killer) clemency |
| 1991 | "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 14 performances |
| 1991 | 12th United Negro College Fund |
| 1991 | Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei |
| 1990 | Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley |
| 1989 | Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show |
| 1989 | Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
| 1989 | Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP |
| 1988 | Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
| 1988 | Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes |
| 1984 | 5th United Negro College Fund |
| 1984 | Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period |
| 1984 | Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections |
| 1983 | Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs. WI |
| 1983 | Graeme Yallop completes 268 vs. Pakistan at cricket MCG |
| 1983 | U.S. announced withdrawal from UNESCO |
| 1982 | Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica |
| 1982 | Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins) |
| 1980 | Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A |
| 1979 | Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
| 1978 | Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government |
| 1978 | Spain constitution goes into effect |
| 1978 | Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs. England at the MCG |
| 1977 | Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage," premieres in New York City |
| 1975 | 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York City |
| 1974 | Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in New York City |
| 1972 | Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 |
| 1972 | Life magazine ceases publication |
| 1972 | Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker vs. Pakistan at MCG |
| 1969 | New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause |
| 1968 | Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game |
| 1968 | Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes |
| 1968 | New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game |
| 1967 | Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs |
| 1967 | Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus |
| 1965 | "Thunderball" premieres in US |
| 1965 | CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year |
| 1965 | Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You" |
| 1963 | 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2) |
| 1962 | Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 years 8 days |
| 1959 | Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in New York City |
| 1958 | Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game |
| 1958 | TV soap "Young Dr. Malone" debuts |
| 1957 | Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game |
| 1957 | Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas |
| 1955 | Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13 |
| 1954 | Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being |
| 1952 | 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale in Elmsford, New York |
| 1951 | Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal |
| 1949 | 1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct) |
| 1949 | Hungary nationalized its industries |
| 1948 | Canada recognizes Israel |
| 1948 | U.S. State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit |
| 1947 | Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine |
| 1944 | Belgian nazi Leon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced |
| 1944 | General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles |
| 1940 | Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) |
| 1940 | NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14 |
| 1938 | Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins |
| 1937 | 2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie |
| 1937 | Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire) |
| 1937 | Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ |
| 1937 | Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service |
| 1934 | 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (MSG) |
| 1934 | Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid |
| 1934 | Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Treaty of 1930 |
| 1933 | Yankees refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cincinnati Reds |
| 1931 | Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey |
| 1931 | Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW |
| 1930 | Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans |
| 1929 | Police arrest Sukarno and 100s PNI-leaders |
| 1926 | Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index |
| 1926 | Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 and 230) by an innings 656 runs |
| 1922 | Dutch Constitution proclaimed |
| 1922 | Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage |
| 1921 | William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM |
| 1920 | The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations |
| 1920 | Yugoslav government bans Communist Party |
| 1913 | 1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago |
| 1911 | Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins |
| 1911 | SF Symphony formed |
| 1908 | Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc |
| 1906 | Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906) |
| 1903 | French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari |
| 1900 | General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia |
| 1899 | English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up |
| 1895 | Dr. L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg |
| 1891 | Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio) |
| 1890 | U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre about 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota |
| 1885 | Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany) |
| 1876 | 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die |
| 1876 | Frederic A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie |
| 1867 | 1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck and Co, New York |
| 1864 | Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball |
| 1862 | Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman |
| 1862 | Bowling ball invented |
| 1857 | Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar |
| 1852 | Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants |
| 1851 | 1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston) |
| 1848 | Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration) |
| 1845 | Texas admitted as 28th state |
| 1841 | King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon |
| 1837 | Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a U.S. steamboat docked at Buffalo |
| 1837 | Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine |
| 1813 | British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812 |
| 1782 | 1st nautical almanac in U.S. published by Samuel Stearns, Boston |
| 1778 | English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia |
| 1708 | Great Alliance occupies Gent |
| 1705 | Prosper Jolyot's "Idomenee," premieres in Paris |
| 1558 | Charles V, German emperor, buried |
| 1541 | Isabella of Poland and King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu |
| 1539 | St. Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning |
| 1503 | Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France |
