| 2013 | Thousands of people on Australia's east coast are threatened by over 130 wildfires burning, and are forced to leave their homes |
| 2013 | U.S. scientists claim 2012 weather as the hottest year ever recorded |
| 2012 | After a year of being held hostage by pirates, 15 Georgian soldiers are released through efforts of the Somalian government |
| 2011 | U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is shot, Judge John Roll killed, in a Tucson, Arizona shooting rampage that killed 6 people and injured 14 |
| 2011 | Chinese prosecutors claim over 600 people were killed in Yunnan over a seven year period from official misconduct |
| 2010 | The parliament in Portugal approves a bill legalizing same-sex marriage |
| 1998 | New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position |
| 1998 | Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas |
| 1998 | Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer |
| 1998 | World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life |
| 1996 | Blizzard buries eastern U.S. causing at least 50 deaths |
| 1996 | For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1995 | "Guys and Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1143 performances |
| 1995 | 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000 |
| 1995 | Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1994 | Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60) |
| 1994 | Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit |
| 1994 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis |
| 1993 | Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point |
| 1993 | Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale |
| 1993 | NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman |
| 1992 | George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap |
| 1991 | "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1991 | Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try |
| 1991 | Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36) |
| 1989 | "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances |
| 1989 | "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 761 performances |
| 1989 | Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die |
| 1989 | Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons |
| 1988 | 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit |
| 1988 | Dow Jones down 140.58 points |
| 1988 | Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator |
| 1988 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
| 1987 | Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25) |
| 1987 | Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| 1986 | Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year |
| 1985 | Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet |
| 1984 | NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams |
| 1984 | Washington Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1 |
| 1982 | AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies |
| 1982 | Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville, Tennessee |
| 1982 | Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM |
| 1981 | "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 772 performances |
| 1981 | India all out 63 in one-day international vs. Australia |
| 1981 | Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner) |
| 1980 | Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0 |
| 1980 | NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports |
| 1979 | 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up |
| 1979 | Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord |
| 1979 | Today Show gets a new theme song |
| 1979 | Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh |
| 1978 | Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai |
| 1976 | Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles |
| 1975 | Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison |
| 1974 | E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City |
| 1974 | Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London |
| 1974 | Loch Ness Monster photographed |
| 1974 | Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York |
| 1973 | "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1973 | Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG |
| 1973 | Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 21 for Moon landing |
| 1972 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
| 1972 | NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall |
| 1971 | 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California |
| 1971 | Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established |
| 1968 | Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV |
| 1966 | Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks |
| 1966 | Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1966 | Georges Pompidou appointed French premier |
| 1966 | Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC |
| 1965 | Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower |
| 1965 | Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History |
| 1964 | European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan |
| 1964 | President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty" |
| 1963 | "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art |
| 1963 | Dmitri Shostakovich' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga |
| 1962 | Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands) |
| 1962 | Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th |
| 1961 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters |
| 1959 | Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic |
| 1958 | Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana |
| 1956 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single) |
| 1955 | Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt |
| 1955 | Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak |
| 1955 | Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open |
| 1955 | WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way" |
| 1953 | Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts) |
| 1953 | Rene Mayer forms French government |
| 1952 | Jordan adopts constitution |
| 1951 | Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda |
| 1949 | "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 429 performances |
| 1949 | "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 95 performances |
| 1949 | "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 134 performances |
| 1948 | Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason |
| 1947 | General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State |
| 1947 | Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game |
| 1945 | "Youth for Christ" organizes |
| 1941 | British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns |
| 1940 | Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar) |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Qld (1st innings) |
| 1937 | -50 degrees F (-45.6 degrees C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record) |
| 1935 | Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy |
| 1934 | Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1932 | Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter |
| 1931 | Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses |
| 1930 | Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto |
| 1929 | 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies |
| 1929 | CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City |
| 1926 | Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia |
| 1925 | 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas |
| 1923 | Typography strike in Amsterdam |
| 1918 | Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition) |
| 1918 | President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I |
| 1917 | Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy |
| 1913 | Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager |
| 1904 | Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen |
| 1902 | 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill) |
| 1901 | NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes |
| 1897 | Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship |
| 1894 | Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire |
| 1889 | 1st Computer patented |
| 1889 | Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine |
| 1884 | Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz |
| 1878 | Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley |
| 1870 | U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins |
| 1867 | Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto |
| 1857 | Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City |
| 1856 | Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California |
| 1853 | 1st U.S. bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash |
| 1848 | Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia |
| 1842 | Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft |
| 1838 | 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes in New Jersey |
| 1838 | Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out |
| 1833 | Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established |
| 1830 | Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members |
| 1815 | Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew |
| 1806 | Cape colony becomes English colony |
| 1806 | Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon |
| 1800 | Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi |
| 1800 | Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France |
| 1798 | 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed |
| 1790 | George Washington delivers 1st state of union address |
| 1760 | Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling |
| 1745 | England, Austria, Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance |
| 1716 | Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested |
| 1705 | Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg |
| 1675 | 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co) |
| 1656 | Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands) |
| 1598 | Genoa Italy expels Jews |
| 1598 | Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy |
| 1558 | French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais |
| 1499 | Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown |
| 1214 | Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France |
| 1198 | Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III |
| 871 | Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army |
| 794 | Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island |
| 624 | Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan |
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