| 2012 | Vietnamese police break up anti-China protests over oil and gas claims in the disputed territorial waters of the South China Sea |
| 2012 | Chinese authorities arrest a Tibetan monk and his nephew in Sichuan province, for inciting 8 self-immolation protests against Chinese rule |
| 2011 | France's three biggest banks, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, are downgraded by Moody's credit rating agency |
| 2011 | After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord |
| 2010 | China creates a new 'Confucius peace prize' to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it |
| 2010 | Pakistani's media publish fake WikiLeaks cables attacking India |
| 2000 | Supreme Court halts Florida vote recount |
| 1995 | 61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB) |
| 1994 | 5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth |
| 1994 | Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments |
| 1993 | "My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 165 performances |
| 1993 | Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns |
| 1992 | 3rd Billboard Music Awards |
| 1992 | Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks |
| 1992 | Operation Restore Hope - U.S. Marines land in Somalia |
| 1992 | Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v New Zealand by 9 wkts) |
| 1992 | New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season |
| 1991 | 2nd Billboard Music Awards |
| 1990 | Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship |
| 1990 | Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80) |
| 1990 | Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14 |
| 1990 | Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland |
| 1990 | NFL New York Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard |
| 1989 | "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne |
| 1988 | New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M |
| 1987 | Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws |
| 1987 | Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank |
| 1985 | 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63) |
| 1985 | Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions |
| 1985 | Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 inches of snow |
| 1984 | 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63) |
| 1984 | 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends |
| 1984 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1984 | Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane |
| 1984 | LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards |
| 1984 | Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Attorney General Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "because food is free and that's easier than paying for it" |
| 1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1982 | Mary-Beth and William Hurt divorce |
| 1980 | 61 degrees F in Boston at 1 AM |
| 1979 | Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1978 | Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus |
| 1978 | 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does |
| 1975 | Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize |
| 1975 | President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City |
| 1974 | Dow Jones index hits 570.01 |
| 1974 | Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| 1974 | Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail |
| 1973 | "Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| 1973 | Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland |
| 1971 | Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court |
| 1970 | Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls |
| 1968 | KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace |
| 1967 | Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House |
| 1967 | Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania |
| 1965 | "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres |
| 1965 | Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles |
| 1965 | Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium |
| 1963 | Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped |
| 1963 | Zanzibar gains independence from Britain |
| 1962 | "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway |
| 1962 | Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth |
| 1961 | "From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 87 performances |
| 1961 | "Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 68 performances |
| 1961 | SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel |
| 1961 | Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania |
| 1961 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY |
| 1960 | 1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV |
| 1958 | Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society |
| 1957 | 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel |
| 1954 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad |
| 1953 | General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired |
| 1953 | Mont Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty minutes |
| 1951 | Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ |
| 1949 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty |
| 1949 | NFL merges Cleveland Browns, San Francisco '49ers and Baltimore Colts from AAFC |
| 1948 | U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide |
| 1941 | 1st U.S. WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines |
| 1941 | 300 Montgomery, San Francisco opens as new Bank of America HQ |
| 1941 | 7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB) |
| 1941 | China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy |
| 1941 | Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester" |
| 1941 | Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed |
| 1940 | British assault on Banghazi Libya |
| 1940 | British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II |
| 1940 | Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius |
| 1940 | South Australia all out for 47 vs. NSW, O'Reilly 5-11 |
| 1939 | 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7 |
| 1939 | Russian air raid on Helsinki |
| 1936 | AL OKs night baseball for St. Louis |
| 1934 | New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship |
| 1933 | 21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3 |
| 1933 | Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard |
| 1931 | Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in New York City |
| 1931 | Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol |
| 1931 | Spain becomes a republic |
| 1931 | Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers |
| 1926 | USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs |
| 1925 | AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 and raise to $40,000 |
| 1925 | Pro football a hit in New York City; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000 |
| 1924 | Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed |
| 1924 | Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president |
| 1922 | Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president |
| 1918 | French troops occupies Mainz |
| 1917 | British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem |
| 1913 | Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris |
| 1913 | John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1910 | French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir |
| 1909 | 1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York) |
| 1907 | 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) |
| 1907 | Gustav Mahler departs Vienna |
| 1906 | NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo |
| 1905 | French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state |
| 1905 | Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden |
| 1903 | Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage |
| 1902 | AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY |
| 1900 | Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession |
| 1894 | Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium |
| 1889 | President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium |
| 1884 | Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate |
| 1883 | New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902) |
| 1878 | Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 |
| 1869 | Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia |
| 1868 | 1st British government of Gladstone forms |
| 1861 | Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah) |
| 1854 | Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published |
| 1851 | 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) |
| 1842 | St. M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg |
| 1824 | Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain |
| 1805 | Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth |
| 1793 | Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva |
| 1783 | 1st execution at English Newgate-jail |
| 1762 | British parliament accept Treaty of Paris |
| 1747 | England and Netherlands sign military treaty |
| 1738 | Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia |
| 1724 | Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London |
| 1688 | King James II's wife and son flee England for France |
| 1658 | Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India |
| 1640 | Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin |
| 1625 | Netherlands and England sign military treaty |
| 1570 | Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein |
| 1425 | Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven |
| 1315 | Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) |
| 1212 | Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king |
| 656 | Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion |
| 536 | Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten |
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