| 2012 | A study conducted at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York, announces the a harmful type of space radiation may accelerate the development of Alzheimer's disease |
| 2012 | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recovers from a cancer operation; his Cabinet ministers get together to pray for his recovery |
| 2011 | A string of 35 fires in Hollywood burn within a 5-hour timeframe, causing at least $350,000 in damage |
| 2011 | In North Korea, Kim Jong-un is given the tile of Supreme Commander of North Korea's armed forces |
| 2010 | In Tunisia, a protester dies of injuries incurred during continued protests over unemployment and living conditions |
| 2010 | Italy's plan to ban plastic bags goes into effect; the country was using 20 billion plastic bags a year - about 300 per person |
| 2008 | One leap second is added to the end of the year |
| 1999 | Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama |
| 1999 | The London Eye, the world's largest Ferris wheel, opens by the banks of the Thames |
| 1998 | U.S. movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year |
| 1997 | Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268 |
| 1997 | Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills |
| 1997 | Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service |
| 1997 | More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809 |
| 1997 | Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba |
| 1997 | South African and U.S. surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head |
| 1995 | "Danny Gans on Broadway" closes at Neil Simon New York City |
| 1995 | "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 308 performances |
| 1995 | "Heiress" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 340 performances |
| 1995 | "Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 14 performances |
| 1995 | "Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1995 | "Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 71 performances |
| 1995 | 62nd Sugar Bowl: Virginia Tech beats Texas |
| 1995 | Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip |
| 1995 | Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria |
| 1994 | 1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland |
| 1994 | Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands |
| 1993 | Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years |
| 1993 | Loveboat actress Jill Whelan (27) weds Brad St. John (33) |
| 1992 | Target date for Europe's single market |
| 1992 | WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry |
| 1991 | CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance |
| 1991 | Daniel R McCarthy elected New York Yankee managing general partner |
| 1991 | Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83 |
| 1991 | J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner |
| 1991 | U.S.S.R., last day of existence |
| 1990 | Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds |
| 1990 | Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting |
| 1990 | United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace |
| 1989 | "Me and My Girl" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 1420 performances |
| 1989 | "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| 1989 | Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi |
| 1989 | Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles |
| 1989 | Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year |
| 1986 | Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97 |
| 1986 | Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound |
| 1986 | WIS-AM in Columbia South Carolina changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG) |
| 1984 | Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash |
| 1984 | New York City subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire |
| 1984 | Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister succeeds his mother, Indira Gandhi |
| 1984 | Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, vs. England at Calcutta |
| 1984 | U.S. leaves UNESCO |
| 1983 | Brunei gains complete independence from Britain |
| 1983 | Jose Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium |
| 1983 | Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup |
| 1982 | CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years |
| 1982 | NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features |
| 1982 | TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run |
| 1981 | CNN Headline News debuts |
| 1981 | Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution |
| 1981 | Netherlands unemployment stands at record 475,000 |
| 1980 | A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18 |
| 1980 | New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks |
| 1980 | Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns |
| 1979 | Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts |
| 1978 | "Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 1859 performances |
| 1978 | "Runaways" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 199 performances |
| 1978 | CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy |
| 1978 | Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier |
| 1978 | Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US |
| 1977 | "Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 766 performances |
| 1977 | "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 124 performances |
| 1977 | Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait |
| 1977 | Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam |
| 1977 | Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa |
| 1977 | Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado |
| 1976 | TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run |
| 1976 | The Cars played their 1st gig |
| 1975 | 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6 |
| 1974 | 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10 |
| 1974 | Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year New York Yankees contract |
| 1974 | Gold legal in U.S., Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin |
| 1974 | Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac |
| 1974 | New York Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 years for record $3.75 million |
| 1974 | Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer |
| 1973 | 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23 |
| 1973 | 61st Australian Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61) |
| 1973 | Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year |
| 1972 | 39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0 |
| 1972 | Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987 |
| 1972 | Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game |
| 1972 | Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game |
| 1971 | KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, Idaho (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1970 | Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin |
| 1970 | President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines |
| 1970 | Would have been start of Australia/England Test Cricket at MCG, washed out |
| 1969 | Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi |
| 1968 | 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) |
| 1968 | 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144 |
| 1968 | New York Jets win AFL championship |
| 1967 | "Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 80 performances |
| 1967 | 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, Los Angeles Lakers beat Houston 147-118 |
| 1967 | Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game |
| 1967 | Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13 degrees F) |
| 1966 | Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 and stays there for 7 weeks |
| 1966 | Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India vs. WI Calcutta, 2-92 |
| 1966 | Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks |
| 1964 | Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph) |
| 1964 | Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN |
| 1963 | Chicago Bears win NFL championship |
| 1963 | Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years) |
| 1963 | Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time |
| 1962 | "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn |
| 1962 | American Basketball League announces suspension of operation |
| 1962 | Dutch leave New Guinea |
| 1962 | Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo |
| 1962 | Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cincinnati for 10 yrs |
| 1961 | "lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 527 performances |
| 1961 | 1st performance of Beach Boys |
| 1961 | Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name |
| 1961 | Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon |
| 1961 | Green Bay Packers shutout New York Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game |
| 1961 | Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion |
| 1958 | 47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2) |
| 1958 | Cubans dictator Batista flees |
| 1958 | International Geophyscial Year ends |
| 1958 | Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X |
| 1957 | AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy |
| 1955 | "Vamp" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 60 performances |
| 1953 | Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president |
| 1953 | WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (NBC) begins |
| 1953 | Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year |
| 1951 | 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced |
| 1950 | Jockeys W Shoemaker and Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year |
| 1949 | 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia |
| 1948 | Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike |
| 1946 | French troops leave Lebanon |
| 1946 | President Truman officially proclaims end of WW II |
| 1945 | Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, SA vs. Australia Services |
| 1945 | Ratification of United Nations Charter completed |
| 1944 | 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah |
| 1944 | Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab |
| 1943 | New York City's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater |
| 1942 | 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton) |
| 1942 | Battle in Barents Sea |
| 1942 | Potatoes rationed in Holland |
| 1941 | Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young |
| 1940 | 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton) |
| 1939 | 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton) |
| 1938 | Dr. R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana |
| 1935 | CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party |
| 1935 | Charles Darrow patents Monopoly |
| 1934 | Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport |
| 1932 | John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of New York City |
| 1930 | Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages |
| 1930 | U.S. tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930 |
| 1929 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri |
| 1927 | Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month |
| 1925 | 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry |
| 1924 | Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies |
| 1923 | 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester |
| 1923 | BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID |
| 1923 | H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in New York City |
| 1921 | Last San Francisco firehorses retired |
| 1920 | Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket India, vs. England at MCG |
| 1918 | Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager |
| 1917 | Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members |
| 1914 | Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000 |
| 1911 | Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize |
| 1910 | U.S. tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910 |
| 1907 | For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year |
| 1907 | G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera |
| 1906 | French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia |
| 1902 | Boers and British army sign peace treaty |
| 1897 | Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into New York City (1/1/1898) |
| 1896 | 25th auto built in US |
| 1890 | Ellis Island, in New York City, opens as a U.S. immigration depot |
| 1879 | Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in U.S.) |
| 1879 | Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace |
| 1879 | Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp |
| 1879 | Gilbert/Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in New York City |
| 1879 | Opera "Pirates of Penzance" is produced (New York City) |
| 1870 | J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done) |
| 1862 | Battle of Stone's River, Tennessee (Stone River, Monfreesboro) |
| 1862 | Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee |
| 1862 | President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee |
| 1862 | Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC |
| 1861 | 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record |
| 1859 | Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves |
| 1857 | Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada |
| 1852 | Future president and Mrs. Rutherford B Hayes marry |
| 1841 | Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons |
| 1805 | End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism |
| 1783 | Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states |
| 1781 | Bank of North America, 1st U.S. bank opens |
| 1779 | English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels |
| 1776 | Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors |
| 1775 | Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold |
| 1762 | Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg |
| 1758 | British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal |
| 1756 | Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk |
| 1744 | James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble) |
| 1711 | Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander |
| 1708 | Great Alliance captures Bridge |
| 1700 | Frisia/Groningen adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 1/12/1701 |
| 1688 | Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham |
| 1687 | 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope |
| 1680 | Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens |
| 1670 | France and England sign Boyne-treaty |
| 1669 | France and Brandenburg sign secret treaty |
| 1621 | Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor/Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Mikulov |
| 1604 | Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam |
| 1600 | British East India Company chartered |
| 1564 | Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion |
| 1502 | Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino |
| 1492 | 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily |
| 870 | Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
| 765 | Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China |
| 406 | 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz |
| 335 | St. Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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