| 2006 | United States population reaches 300 million people |
| 1996 | "Taking Sides," opens at Atkinson Theater New York City |
| 1995 | Keith Moore sentenced to 6 years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000 |
| 1994 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championships of Women's Golf |
| 1994 | Billy Joel performs opening concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena |
| 1994 | Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies) |
| 1993 | Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf |
| 1992 | 1st World Series with non-U.S. team, Toronto loses 3-1 to Braves |
| 1991 | Angel Cordero is 3rd jockey to win 7,000 horse races |
| 1991 | Atlanta Braves beat Pittsburgh Pirates for NL pennant in 7 games |
| 1991 | News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio KFI-AM personally attacked her by discuss her having a disformed baby |
| 1991 | Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists) |
| 1990 | "Jackie Mason - Brand New" opens at Neil Simon New York City for 216 performances |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, New York and His Majesty's Theatre, Perth |
| 1989 | Earthquake in San Francisco (6.9) cancels 3rd game of World Series, kills 67 |
| 1988 | 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome |
| 1988 | Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of New York Yankees |
| 1988 | Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment |
| 1988 | Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft |
| 1988 | Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF woman's title |
| 1988 | Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care" |
| 1987 | "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1987 | 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome) |
| 1987 | 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy |
| 1986 | U.S. Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens and offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982 |
| 1986 | Yitzak Rabin forms Israeli government |
| 1985 | French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature |
| 1985 | Lou Piniella named New York Yankee manager |
| 1984 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield |
| 1983 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu |
| 1983 | STS-9 vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB due to SRB nozzle problem |
| 1982 | 1st live orchestra on commerical network since 1954 (National Symphony) |
| 1982 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1982 | Robin Yount is 1st to have 2 4-hit games in a World Series |
| 1982 | Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1980 | 1st-class debut of Mike Whitney, NSW vs. Qld (2-52 and 1-39) |
| 1979 | "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 920 performances |
| 1979 | D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1979 | Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series |
| 1979 | President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education |
| 1978 | New York Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8) |
| 1978 | New York Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series |
| 1978 | President Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship |
| 1978 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1978 | Yankees win 22nd World Championship capping their great comeback year |
| 1977 | Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament |
| 1977 | West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of 4 hijackers |
| 1976 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1976 | Coldest World Series game Yankees vs Cincinnati, 39 degrees F (until 1997) |
| 1975 | 1st Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Tech Labs, Miss |
| 1975 | Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely |
| 1975 | U.N. passes resolution saying "Zionism is a form of racism" |
| 1974 | "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" closes at Playhouse New York City after 1065 per |
| 1974 | NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak |
| 1974 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL home victory, beating Chicago 4-3 |
| 1974 | Oakland A's beat Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 games to 1 in 71st World Series makes A's only team other than Yankees to win 3 straight series |
| 1973 | 5-mo oil embargo by Arab states against U.S. and Netherlands begins |
| 1973 | Arabs decrease oil production |
| 1972 | 1st time Islanders shut-out-5-0 vs Penguins |
| 1972 | Bob Randall's "6 Rooms Riv Vu," premieres in New York City |
| 1972 | Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1 |
| 1971 | Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River Nature Center opens |
| 1971 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Quality-First Golf Classic |
| 1971 | Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 68th World Series |
| 1970 | Anwar Sadat sworn in as president of Egypt |
| 1969 | New York Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY |
| 1969 | Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK |
| 1969 | Soyuz 7 returns to Earth |
| 1967 | "Hair" premieres on Broadway |
| 1967 | Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS |
| 1967 | Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue |
| 1967 | Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in New York City for 280 performances |
| 1965 | WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Yankees fire Manager Yogi Berra |
| 1963 | "Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 82 performances |
| 1962 | Yankees beat Giants for 20th world championship |
| 1961 | 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
| 1961 | Battle of Paris - police kill 210 Algerians |
| 1961 | NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m |
| 1961 | NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd |
| 1960 | "Tenderloin" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 216 performances |
| 1960 | U.S. and Britain sign accord for nuclear sub bases |
| 1959 | "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 87 performances |
| 1959 | Queen Elizabeth is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse |
| 1959 | Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks' dedicated |
| 1957 | "Copper and Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| 1957 | Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits White House |
| 1957 | Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed |
| 1957 | French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 1957 | II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan |
| 1956 | England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens |
| 1956 | Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt |
| 1955 | Lee Merriwether joins Today Show panel |
| 1954 | Philadelphia Eagle Adrian Burk passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington (49-21) |
| 1951 | Egyptian army fires on British troops |
| 1943 | Liberators sink U-540 and U-631 |
| 1941 | 1st U.S. destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland |
| 1940 | German occupiers issue identity cards |
| 1935 | Pacific Assoc of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics |
| 1934 | "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio |
| 1933 | Albert Einstein arrives in U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany |
| 1927 | Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president |
| 1923 | Catholic University of Nijmegen Netherlands opens |
| 1922 | Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London |
| 1921 | Belgium's public library law goes into force |
| 1920 | Chicago Bears (as Decatur Staleys) play 1st NFL game, win 7-0 |
| 1919 | Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created |
| 1918 | De Kooy airport in Netherlands opens |
| 1918 | Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic |
| 1917 | 1st British bombing of Germany |
| 1916 | Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage |
| 1912 | Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declares war on Turkey |
| 1904 | Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors |
| 1899 | Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000 |
| 1896 | Anton Tsjechovs "Chayka," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1894 | Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man |
| 1885 | Baseball sets all players salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for 1885 season |
| 1877 | Henry Morton Stanley reaches Boma during trip cross Africa |
| 1876 | Henry Morton Stanley's reaches Lualaba River |
| 1871 | Great Britain annexes Griqualand South Africa |
| 1871 | President Grant suspends writ of habeas corpus |
| 1868 | Constitution of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg comes into effect |
| 1862 | Battle of Leetown and Thoroughfare Gap, VA |
| 1860 | 1st British Golf Open: Willie Park shoots a 164 at Prestwick Club |
| 1860 | 1st pro golf tournament held (Scotland) (Willie Park wins) |
| 1855 | Bessemer steelmaking process patented |
| 1850 | Knickerbocker Engine Co Number 5 organized |
| 1831 | Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres |
| 1829 | Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens |
| 1829 | German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser |
| 1825 | 1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris |
| 1815 | Napoleon arrives in St. Helena |
| 1808 | Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw |
| 1800 | Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England |
| 1797 | Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France |
| 1787 | Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities |
| 1781 | Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown |
| 1777 | British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY |
| 1740 | Ivan VI becomes Czar of Russia |
| 1720 | Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris |
| 1707 | German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach |
| 1691 | New royal charter for Massachusetts, now including Maine, Plymouth |
| 1651 | Future King Charles II flees from England |
| 1556 | Ex-emperor Karel departs Netherland for Spain |
| 1492 | Columbus sights isle of San Salvador (Watling Island, Bahamas) |
| 1483 | Tomas de Torquemada appointed inquisitor-general of Spain |
| 1469 | Crown prince Fernando of Aragon marries princess Isabella of Castilie |
| 1415 | Jewish autonomy in Palestine ends, as Raban Gamliel leaves office |
| 1404 | Cosma de' Migliorati elected Pope Innocentius VII |
| 1387 | Swells convent Windesheim initiated |
| 733 | Battle at Poitiers: Charles Martel beats Abd al-Rachmans Omajjaden |
| 532 | Boniface II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
