| 2013 | For the first time in its history, the European Parliament rejects a European Union budget |
| 2013 | In Greenland, the Siumut party wins the parliamentary election, setting up Aleqa Hammond to become the country's first female Prime Minister |
| 2012 | A Harvard Medical School study claims that red meat increases the risk of death and has additional negative health implications |
| 2012 | Twenty-five year old Alaskan, Dallas Seavey becomes the youngest winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race |
| 2011 | Over 200,000 people are evacuated from Japan as fear of nuclear contamination from the power plants grows |
| 2011 | Japan estimates over 46,000 structures were damaged in the 9.0 magnitude earthquake |
| 2010 | Six people are killed by a remotely operated bomb while travelling in southern Afghanistan in Tirin Kot, the capital of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province |
| 1996 | Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play |
| 1996 | Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself |
| 1995 | 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win |
| 1995 | Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms |
| 1995 | Hungarian Forint devalued 9% |
| 1995 | Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators |
| 1994 | 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP |
| 1994 | Cuba Godding, Jr. (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26) |
| 1994 | Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1994 | Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed) |
| 1994 | President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed |
| 1993 | Blizzard of '93 hits north-east U.S. |
| 1992 | 570 die in a Turkish earthquake |
| 1992 | FCC rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations (formerly 12) |
| 1992 | Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit |
| 1991 | Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill |
| 1990 | Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada |
| 1989 | 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown |
| 1989 | FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in U.S. |
| 1989 | U.S. space shuttle STS-29 launched |
| 1988 | 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win |
| 1987 | Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) |
| 1987 | John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering |
| 1987 | Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes and 3 seconds |
| 1986 | Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir |
| 1985 | Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) |
| 1985 | Michael Secrest (U.S.) begins 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards |
| 1984 | Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird |
| 1984 | WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield |
| 1983 | "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 770 performances |
| 1983 | 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14 |
| 1982 | Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB) |
| 1982 | Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR) |
| 1982 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA) |
| 1982 | Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA) |
| 1982 | Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship |
| 1981 | NCAA St. Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul |
| 1980 | Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60) |
| 1980 | Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto |
| 1980 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR |
| 1979 | European Monetary System is established, ECU created |
| 1979 | Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement |
| 1979 | Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick |
| 1978 | Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house |
| 1977 | Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test |
| 1975 | Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in New York City |
| 1974 | Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris |
| 1974 | Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia |
| 1973 | Syria adopts constitution |
| 1973 | "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 605 performances |
| 1973 | Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St. New York City |
| 1971 | Live at Fillmore East recorded |
| 1970 | 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam |
| 1970 | Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer |
| 1970 | SF city employees begin 4-day strike |
| 1969 | Apollo 9 returns to Earth |
| 1968 | Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK |
| 1967 | Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death |
| 1967 | Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in New York City |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| 1965 | Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds |
| 1964 | Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack |
| 1963 | 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska |
| 1963 | Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in New York City |
| 1963 | Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations |
| 1962 | Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty |
| 1961 | Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party |
| 1961 | Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy sets up the Alliance for Progress |
| 1961 | Landslide in U.S.S.R., kills 145 |
| 1961 | Old type, black and white notes cease to be legal tender |
| 1961 | Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37) |
| 1960 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1960 | NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis |
| 1960 | White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number |
| 1958 | Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia |
| 1957 | Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba |
| 1956 | New Zealand bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win |
| 1955 | Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal |
| 1955 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1954 | Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron |
| 1954 | Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu |
| 1951 | 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms |
| 1951 | Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany |
| 1950 | General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record) |
| 1949 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman |
| 1949 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 1948 | 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42 |
| 1947 | "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 581 performances |
| 1947 | 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win |
| 1945 | Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands |
| 1945 | Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman |
| 1944 | U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government |
| 1943 | Baseball approves official ball (with cork and balata) |
| 1943 | Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight |
| 1943 | Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6) |
| 1942 | Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army |
| 1941 | A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand) |
| 1940 | Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische |
| 1938 | Austria annexed by Nazi Germany |
| 1935 | Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
| 1933 | Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda |
| 1930 | Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory |
| 1929 | Bradman scores 123 Australia vs. England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton |
| 1928 | 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif) |
| 1928 | Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games |
| 1925 | Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution |
| 1924 | German Republic day |
| 1923 | Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York City) |
| 1922 | George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | WRR-AM in Dallas Texas begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St. Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games |
| 1921 | Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China |
| 1920 | Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails |
| 1918 | American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms |
| 1918 | 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set |
| 1915 | Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit |
| 1913 | Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures |
| 1912 | Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games |
| 1911 | Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in New York City |
| 1911 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4 |
| 1904 | Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated |
| 1900 | British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state |
| 1895 | Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die |
| 1894 | J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate |
| 1888 | Great Blizzard of 1888 rages |
| 1887 | Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs |
| 1884 | Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins |
| 1884 | U.S. adopts Standard Time |
| 1878 | Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match |
| 1869 | Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law |
| 1868 | Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial |
| 1865 | U.S. Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers |
| 1852 | Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly |
| 1846 | Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Konigsberg |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing |
| 1797 | Cherubini's opera "Medee," premieres in Paris |
| 1790 | John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia |
| 1781 | Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus) |
| 1772 | Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick |
| 1759 | 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 1735 | 1st U.S. Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany |
| 1677 | Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000 |
| 1656 | Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam |
| 1639 | Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard |
| 1634 | Academe Franeaise opens |
| 1591 | Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai |
| 1569 | Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots |
| 1567 | Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger |
| 1564 | Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels |
| 1560 | Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli |
| 1519 | Cortez lands in Mexico |
| 1138 | German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned |
| 607 | 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 483 | St. Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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