| 1997 | "1776," closes at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1997 | CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Saskatchawan, 47-23 |
| 1996 | "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances |
| 1996 | 18th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 28 awards |
| 1995 | Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease |
| 1995 | Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery |
| 1993 | "Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 32 performances |
| 1993 | Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum |
| 1993 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont |
| 1990 | Manuel Noriega claims U.S. denied him a fair trial |
| 1989 | "Gypsy" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 477 performances |
| 1989 | 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops |
| 1989 | South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act |
| 1988 | Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years |
| 1988 | Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs |
| 1988 | Jose Canseco is 1st unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson |
| 1988 | Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins parliamentary election |
| 1988 | Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel |
| 1987 | Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz |
| 1987 | Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago" |
| 1984 | 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center |
| 1984 | Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record |
| 1984 | Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket |
| 1984 | John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" |
| 1983 | Kapil Dev takes 9-83 vs. WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose |
| 1982 | 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1982 | Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike |
| 1982 | Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight |
| 1982 | Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing," premieres in London |
| 1981 | "Merrily We Roll Along" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1981 | Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis |
| 1981 | Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch) |
| 1980 | Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Doug Williams throws for 486 yards |
| 1979 | Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas" |
| 1978 | Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft |
| 1977 | Rod Carew wins AL MVP award |
| 1976 | Rene Levesque's "Parti Quebecois" wins elections in Quebec |
| 1976 | Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
| 1975 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open |
| 1974 | 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away |
| 1974 | John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" |
| 1974 | Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record) |
| 1973 | John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album |
| 1973 | President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline |
| 1973 | Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1972 | "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1969 | 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by U.S. is 1st reported |
| 1966 | Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury |
| 1966 | Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP |
| 1965 | Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus) |
| 1965 | Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow |
| 1964 | Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission |
| 1964 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1963 | Toledo, OH newspaper strike began |
| 1963 | Touch-tone telephone introduced |
| 1962 | Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic) |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points vs New York Knicks |
| 1961 | Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries |
| 1960 | NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP |
| 1959 | "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 1443 performances |
| 1957 | "Copper and Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| 1957 | Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89 |
| 1957 | Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0 |
| 1955 | 1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D M Campbell) |
| 1955 | Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry" |
| 1955 | KLM orders 8 DC-8's |
| 1955 | Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco |
| 1952 | Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election |
| 1950 | Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops |
| 1950 | U.N. gets U.S. government approval to issue postage stamps |
| 1950 | U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat |
| 1948 | Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel |
| 1947 | 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis |
| 1945 | Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st U.S. Jewish College |
| 1944 | U.S. 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen |
| 1942 | Assault of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed |
| 1941 | German troops conquer Kertsh (probably) |
| 1939 | Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail |
| 1939 | German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland |
| 1938 | K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India |
| 1936 | German air force begins bombing of Madrid |
| 1935 | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Brazilians president Getulio Vargas names himself dictator |
| 1933 | Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R. |
| 1926 | New York Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 |
| 1925 | American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY) |
| 1925 | Philip Barry's "In a Garden," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record) |
| 1922 | Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite |
| 1922 | Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help |
| 1920 | 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Connecticut |
| 1919 | Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Bela Kuns Soviet Republic |
| 1918 | Hungarian People's Republic declared |
| 1917 | British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa |
| 1916 | Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff," premieres in New York City |
| 1916 | I Berlin/V Herbert/H Blossoms musical premieres in New York City |
| 1916 | U.S.S.R. La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000 |
| 1914 | Federal Reserve System formally opens |
| 1914 | Pope Benedict XV calls for peace |
| 1909 | EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms |
| 1908 | Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting New York's Metropolitan Opera |
| 1907 | Oklahoma becomes 46th state |
| 1905 | Netherlands/Russian Count Witte becomes premier of Russia |
| 1903 | V Herbert and H Smith' musical "Babette," premieres in New York City |
| 1901 | 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds |
| 1894 | 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan |
| 1894 | French Captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa |
| 1882 | British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger |
| 1875 | Battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians |
| 1875 | William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities |
| 1870 | Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I |
| 1864 | Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia |
| 1864 | Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War |
| 1863 | Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities |
| 1859 | Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow |
| 1856 | Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens |
| 1841 | Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (New York City) |
| 1841 | N E Guerin of New York patents cork-filled life preserver |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society |
| 1824 | New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business |
| 1811 | Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards |
| 1805 | Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French |
| 1801 | 1st edition of New York Evening Post |
| 1798 | Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress |
| 1776 | 1st gun salute - for U.S. Andrea Doria at Ft. St. Eustatius |
| 1776 | British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution |
| 1771 | West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname |
| 1764 | Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac |
| 1763 | English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel |
| 1700 | Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia |
| 1683 | Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henriette Amalia |
| 1677 | French troops occupy Freiburg |
| 1676 | 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass |
| 1632 | Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein |
| 1572 | Don Frederiks troops occupy/plunder Zutphen |
| 1532 | Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca |
| 1380 | French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever |
| 13 | Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany |
