| 2004 | After popularizing the PC in the '80s, IBM sells its PC business to a Chinese company |
| 1997 | Amy Fruhwirth and Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-80 (Columbia 21), lands |
| 1995 | NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12 |
| 1995 | U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter |
| 1994 | 5th Billboard Music Awards |
| 1994 | Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide |
| 1993 | Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast |
| 1993 | Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery |
| 1992 | Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) |
| 1991 | A J Kitt, U.S., wins World Skiing Cup |
| 1990 | Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages |
| 1990 | Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement |
| 1989 | C Coleman and D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in New York City |
| 1988 | 6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed |
| 1988 | Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die) |
| 1988 | Earthquake in Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless) |
| 1988 | Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN |
| 1988 | Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in New York City |
| 1988 | New York Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach |
| 1988 | Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract |
| 1987 | 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) |
| 1987 | Gorbachev arrives in U.S. for a summit meeting |
| 1987 | Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43 |
| 1987 | Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank |
| 1986 | Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1986 | President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti |
| 1985 | 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB) |
| 1985 | Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 1984 | Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide) |
| 1983 | 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 |
| 1983 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1982 | Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building |
| 1981 | Spain becomes a member of the NATO alliance |
| 1978 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick |
| 1977 | Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0 |
| 1976 | U.N. Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for 2nd 5 yr term |
| 1975 | 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres |
| 1975 | Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus |
| 1975 | Indonesian army occupies East Timor |
| 1975 | Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament |
| 1973 | Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies |
| 1973 | Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers |
| 1973 | Wings release "Band on the Run" |
| 1972 | Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched |
| 1972 | Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant |
| 1971 | "Wild and Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater New York City |
| 1971 | Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life" |
| 1970 | Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma |
| 1970 | West Germany and Poland normalize relations |
| 1968 | M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923 |
| 1968 | Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1968 | Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823 |
| 1967 | "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 220 performances |
| 1967 | Otis Rescue records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 |
| 1964 | George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs |
| 1963 | Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans |
| 1962 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | Ivory Coast claims independence from France |
| 1959 | "Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 80 performances |
| 1958 | Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela |
| 1957 | Tony Kubek of the Yankees selected as AL Rookie of the Year |
| 1956 | Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel |
| 1955 | Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party |
| 1954 | Japanese government of Joshida, resigns |
| 1954 | KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion retires |
| 1953 | WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1949 | 15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E) |
| 1949 | Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan |
| 1946 | Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119 |
| 1945 | Microwave oven patented |
| 1944 | Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago |
| 1944 | General Radescu forms Romanian government |
| 1943 | Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US |
| 1941 | Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon |
| 1941 | Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu |
| 1941 | German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends |
| 1941 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, a date that will live in infamy |
| 1941 | Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps |
| 1941 | 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward) |
| 1940 | North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor |
| 1939 | Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1939 | William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland |
| 1938 | Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio |
| 1937 | Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work |
| 1937 | Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams |
| 1937 | Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe |
| 1935 | CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton |
| 1934 | Wiley Post discovers jet stream |
| 1932 | 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY |
| 1931 | Bradman scores 219 NSW vs. South Africa, 234 minutes, 15 fours |
| 1930 | 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing |
| 1929 | Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 minutes |
| 1929 | Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament |
| 1926 | Gas refrigerator patented |
| 1925 | Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St. New York City |
| 1925 | Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose) |
| 1921 | KWG-AM in Stockton California begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81 |
| 1920 | USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany |
| 1917 | U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I |
| 1916 | British government of David Lloyd George forms |
| 1916 | David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM |
| 1912 | Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt |
| 1911 | Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy," premieres in New York City |
| 1911 | National Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria |
| 1909 | Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) |
| 1907 | Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring |
| 1895 | Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies |
| 1891 | 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session |
| 1889 | Gilbert and Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London |
| 1885 | 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes |
| 1877 | Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone |
| 1876 | NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked |
| 1875 | Natives Sons of the West organized |
| 1872 | HMS Challenger sets sail on 3 -year world oceanographic cruise |
| 1868 | Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin, Missouri, kills 1 |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia |
| 1862 | Battle of Hartsville, TN |
| 1862 | Battle of Prairie Grove, AR |
| 1842 | NY Philharmonic's 1st concert |
| 1836 | Martin Van Buren elected 8th president |
| 1835 | German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens |
| 1808 | James Madison elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president |
| 1787 | Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution |
| 1783 | Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London |
| 1783 | William Pitt, Jr. (24) becomes British premier |
| 1741 | Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia |
| 1646 | Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry |
| 1354 | Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty |
| 283 | St. Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 185 | Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52) |
