| 2012 | Mikhail Korniyenko and Scott Kelly, veteran astronauts, are chosen to carry out the first year-long mission to the International Space Station in 2015 |
| 2011 | NBA team owners and players reach an agreement, ending the 149-day NBA lockout; the new NBA season will begin Christmas day |
| 2011 | The robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover ever sent to Mars, is launched by NASA; the goal is to find evidence of past or present life on Mars |
| 2010 | Hezbollah members are indicted for killing LebanonŐs former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing |
| 2010 | Authorities searching two homes near Escondido, California, find the largest cache of homemade explosives ever discovered in the U.S. |
| 2008 | Mumbai terrorist attacks kill over 195 people over four days |
| 1997 | Washington Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5 |
| 1996 | Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4 |
| 1996 | Colbert, Floyd and Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge |
| 1996 | Couples, Davies, Sheehan and Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf |
| 1996 | Couples, Love and Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge |
| 1995 | 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2) |
| 1995 | Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass |
| 1995 | New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs vs. India in Nagpur ODI |
| 1993 | Political campaigners James Carville (49) and Mary Matalin wed |
| 1991 | Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students |
| 1990 | 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins |
| 1990 | Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend |
| 1990 | Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait |
| 1990 | Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns |
| 1990 | Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM |
| 1989 | 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40 |
| 1989 | Comores coup under Bob Benard |
| 1989 | Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay |
| 1989 | Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras |
| 1988 | Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch |
| 1988 | Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km) |
| 1985 | 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched |
| 1985 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1985 | Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000 |
| 1984 | After 518 goals and 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires |
| 1984 | John W Mercom, Jr. announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million |
| 1984 | Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain |
| 1984 | U.S. and Iraq regain diplomatic relations |
| 1983 | Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million |
| 1982 | Clyde King named Yankee manager |
| 1982 | Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki |
| 1982 | Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch |
| 1980 | Columbia mated to SRBs and external tank at Vehicle Assembly Building |
| 1980 | Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP |
| 1979 | International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China |
| 1979 | Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year |
| 1978 | 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, New York |
| 1978 | 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "Question of Love" |
| 1978 | 66th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 20-13 |
| 1976 | East Germany deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship |
| 1976 | Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single |
| 1976 | Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK" |
| 1976 | Willy Burns elected chairman of Social International |
| 1975 | Federal jury finds Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination |
| 1975 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| 1975 | Fred Lynn becomes the 1st rookie to win MVP |
| 1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Approximately 140 die when suspension bridge collapses (Nepal) |
| 1974 | Catfish Hunter and Charlie Finley meet in arbitration |
| 1974 | Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut vs. India |
| 1973 | Nixon's personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18 -minute gap in a key Watergate tape |
| 1972 | Pete Gogolak scores New York Giant record 8 pts after a touchdown |
| 1969 | 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB) |
| 1969 | Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall) |
| 1969 | Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon |
| 1968 | 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern California (RB) |
| 1967 | Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return |
| 1967 | Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450 |
| 1966 | "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances |
| 1966 | 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France |
| 1966 | 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14 |
| 1965 | Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year |
| 1965 | France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix) |
| 1963 | 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (quarterback) |
| 1963 | Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1963 | Explorer 18 launched |
| 1962 | Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms |
| 1962 | Fab Four have their 1st recording session under name Beatles |
| 1961 | For 2nd time in his career, St. Louis' Jerry Norton has 4 interceptions |
| 1961 | Pro Baseball Rules Committee votes 8-1 against legalizing the spitball |
| 1960 | 48th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 16-6 |
| 1960 | Minneapolis-St. Paul baseball club takes the name Twins |
| 1957 | WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC |
| 1956 | U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks |
| 1955 | "Boy Friend" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 483 performances |
| 1955 | 43rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-19 |
| 1955 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Cyprus |
| 1955 | Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song "Cry! Cry! Cry!" |
| 1954 | Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey vs. Australia at Gabba |
| 1953 | KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, Idaho (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening |
| 1952 | 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood |
| 1950 | China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River |
| 1949 | 37th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15 |
| 1949 | India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic |
| 1948 | Belgian government of Spaak, resigns |
| 1945 | During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington) |
| 1944 | 1st allied marines move onto Antwerp harbor |
| 1944 | Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoriums |
| 1942 | "Casablanca" premieres at Hollywood Theatre, New York City |
| 1942 | Anti fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms |
| 1941 | Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro |
| 1941 | British North African commandant General Cunningham lay-offs |
| 1941 | British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh and El Duda |
| 1941 | Japanese carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor |
| 1941 | Lebanon gains independence from France |
| 1940 | Leidse students strike |
| 1940 | Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw |
| 1939 | 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border |
| 1934 | German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi |
| 1934 | Turkish regiment decrees importing family names |
| 1933 | Camille Chautemps becomes French premier |
| 1932 | Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings |
| 1928 | Paul Claudel's "Lepdrehumily," premieres in Dresden |
| 1928 | Philip Barry's "Holiday," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | 15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6 |
| 1925 | Netherlands and Germany sign trade agreement |
| 1924 | Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed |
| 1916 | Greece declares war on Germany |
| 1914 | Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor England, 788 die |
| 1913 | Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers |
| 1910 | 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7 |
| 1898 | SS Portland leaves for Cape Cod, 157 killed |
| 1896 | 1st large indoor football game, University of Chicago beats University of Michigan 7-6 |
| 1896 | A. A. Stagg of U Chicago creates football huddle |
| 1895 | Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms |
| 1894 | King Lafia "Absalamu" of Nikki signs accord with France |
| 1885 | 1st meteor photograph |
| 1868 | 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in SF, at 25th and Folsom |
| 1867 | Refrigerated railroad car patented by J. B. Sutherland |
| 1865 | "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll published in US |
| 1864 | Confederate troops vacate Sandersville Georgia |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Sylvan Brutal/Waynesboro, Georgia |
| 1861 | West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virg |
| 1847 | Alfred de Mussets "Un Caprice," premieres in Paris |
| 1841 | 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle leaves Tahiti for New Zealand |
| 1832 | 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (New York City) (12 cent fare) |
| 1825 | 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, New York)) |
| 1793 | Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France |
| 1789 | 1st national Thanksgiving |
| 1778 | Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii |
| 1764 | France bans Jesuit enorde |
| 1741 | French and Beiers army occupies Prague |
| 1716 | 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston) |
| 1703 | Heavy storm hits England 1000s killed |
| 1703 | Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships |
| 1702 | Premiere of Colley Cibber's "King Imposter" |
| 1688 | Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg |
| 1688 | French king Louis XIV declares war on Netherlands |
| 1688 | King James II escapes back to London |
| 1648 | Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westfalen |
| 1598 | Jacob of Necks merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java |
| 1580 | French Huguenots and Roman Catholics sign peace treaty |
| 1527 | Pope Clemens VII signs treaty with emperor Karel I |
| 944 | Otto I the Great gives away bisdom Utrecht "foreestrecht" |
| 579 | Pelagius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 399 | St. Siricius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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