| 2006 | Hugo Chavez, leftist dictator, is re-elected President of Venezuela |
| 1997 | "1776," opens at Gershwin Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo |
| 1995 | "Company" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| 1995 | "Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1995 | 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2) |
| 1995 | Beth Daniels/Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket vs. South Africa, a record |
| 1995 | Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar |
| 1995 | Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864 |
| 1992 | U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia |
| 1991 | Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion |
| 1991 | Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen |
| 1991 | White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns |
| 1990 | NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with San Francisco Giants |
| 1989 | Pat Bradley/Bill Glasson wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1988 | 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB) |
| 1988 | New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48) |
| 1986 | Sri Lanka all out 55 vs. WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs |
| 1985 | 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1984 | 2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India |
| 1984 | Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc |
| 1983 | "Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff New York City after 16 performances |
| 1983 | 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB) |
| 1983 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1982 | 1st New Jersey Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4 |
| 1982 | 35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record) |
| 1982 | 77 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in December |
| 1982 | New Jersey Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini) |
| 1982 | Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez |
| 1981 | Beth Daniel/Tom Kite wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1980 | NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty |
| 1979 | 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB) |
| 1979 | Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400 |
| 1979 | Iran accepts constitution |
| 1978 | "King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1978 | Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq |
| 1975 | Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed |
| 1973 | Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) |
| 1972 | Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die |
| 1971 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 1971 | President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 1968 | Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" and strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters |
| 1967 | 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa) |
| 1967 | Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4) |
| 1967 | Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia |
| 1967 | Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed N.Y. - Chicago luxury train |
| 1966 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
| 1965 | Beatles begin final U.K. concert tour in Glasgow |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon |
| 1964 | "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV |
| 1964 | KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley |
| 1962 | Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st U.S. black female judge |
| 1962 | Pravda criticizes western art |
| 1961 | Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion |
| 1961 | Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein |
| 1961 | George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | "Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 873 performances |
| 1960 | Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot," premieres in New York City |
| 1959 | State of emergency on Cyprus ends |
| 1958 | Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses |
| 1957 | 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB) |
| 1956 | England and France pull troops out of Egypt |
| 1956 | KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft. Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1956 | Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52) |
| 1955 | KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard," premieres |
| 1954 | William Walton's opera "Troilus and Cressida," premieres in London |
| 1953 | "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 583 performances |
| 1953 | Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party |
| 1953 | Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet |
| 1952 | 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii |
| 1952 | Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela |
| 1950 | Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Philadelphia 13-7) |
| 1950 | Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast |
| 1950 | Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts |
| 1949 | KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (CBS) begins |
| 1948 | "Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss) |
| 1948 | 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in |
| 1948 | Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial |
| 1948 | Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 |
| 1947 | Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB) |
| 1946 | U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain |
| 1944 | British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece |
| 1944 | Hungarian death march of Jews ends |
| 1944 | Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe |
| 1944 | NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves |
| 1944 | U.S. 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald |
| 1943 | 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (quarterback) |
| 1943 | Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins |
| 1943 | Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres |
| 1943 | Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins |
| 1941 | Hitler views Poltava Ukraine |
| 1939 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres |
| 1938 | AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric |
| 1934 | Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya |
| 1934 | KYW-AM in Chicago, Illinois moves to Philadelphia Penn |
| 1933 | Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000 |
| 1933 | Joe Lilliard quarterbacks Chicago Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946 |
| 1932 | 20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6 |
| 1932 | General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany |
| 1931 | Alka Seltzer goes on sale |
| 1930 | Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium) |
| 1930 | Otto Ender forms Austrian government |
| 1930 | Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London |
| 1929 | Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak |
| 1926 | Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) |
| 1923 | 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington D.C.) |
| 1922 | 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City |
| 1921 | 9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0 |
| 1920 | Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty |
| 1914 | Netherlands army shoots up geinterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed |
| 1912 | Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer |
| 1912 | Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign weapons pact |
| 1910 | Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show) |
| 1908 | Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres |
| 1907 | George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town," premieres in New York City |
| 1903 | Panglima Polim surrenders to Captain Colijn at Atjeh |
| 1901 | Milwaukee is dropped from the AL and replaced by St. Louis Browns |
| 1893 | Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia |
| 1883 | 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes |
| 1881 | Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa |
| 1878 | Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel |
| 1868 | Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury |
| 1866 | Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia |
| 1863 | Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN |
| 1847 | Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star" |
| 1844 | RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms |
| 1835 | 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI) |
| 1834 | 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY) |
| 1833 | Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US |
| 1818 | Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day) |
| 1775 | 1st official U.S. flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred) |
| 1699 | Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague |
| 1694 | English parliamentary election set for every 3 years |
| 1685 | Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden |
| 1678 | Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford |
| 1676 | Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen |
| 1639 | 1st annulment by court decree passes |
| 1621 | Galileo invents telescope |
| 1586 | Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia |
| 1557 | 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form |
| 1347 | Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics |
| 741 | St. Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III |
