07721201::Pope Adrian I elected
11671201::Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
15661201::Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
16261201::Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical gov of Jerusalem, driven out
16401201::Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
16411201::Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
16531201::An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
16561201::Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
17081201::Great Alliance occupies Brussels
17421201::Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
17501201::1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md
17831201::Charles & M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in hydrogen balloon
17831201::J van North launches unmanned balloon
18041201::Emperor Napoleon marries Jos‚phine of Martinique
18211201::Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
18221201::Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
18221201::Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran
18241201::House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams,
18241201::Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president
18311201::Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
18351201::Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales
18431201::1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens
18521201::Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
18641201::Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
18641201::Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia
18681201::John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
18781201::1st White House telephone installed
18871201::Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
18871201::Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
18911201::James Naismith creates the game of basketball
18961201::1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)
19001201::South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders
19031201::"The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released
19061201::Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris)
19061201::Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of K”penick) sentenced to 4 yrs
19091201::1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
19091201::1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
19131201::1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
19131201::Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)
19171201::Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb
19181201::Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence
19181201::Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown
19181201::Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
19181201::Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
19191201::AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By," premieres in Manchester
19191201::Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
19211201::1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
19211201::US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
19221201::1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
19221201::Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns
19231201::CFL Grey Cup: Queen's U beats Regina, 54-0 at Toronto
19241201::Calles becomes president of M‚xico
19241201::George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good," premieres in NYC
19251201::Treaty of Locarno signed
19281201::CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina, 30-0 at Hamilton
19281201::Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth
19291201::BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
19291201::Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
19301201::NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
19301201::Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
19311201::Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
19331201::Rudolf Hess & Earnest R”hm become a minister in Hitler govt
19351201::Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp
19361201::2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
19361201::Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
19361201::EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
19371201::Japan recognizes Franco govt
19381201::School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
19391201::SS-Fhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
19411201::British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
19411201::Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
19411201::Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years
19411201::US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
19421201::Gasoline rationed in US
19431201::FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
19441201::B‚la Bart•k's Concerto for orchestra, premieres
19441201::Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
19441201::Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres
19451201::CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg, 35-0 at Toronto
19461201::Australia compile 645 v India at the Gabba (Bradman 187)
19471201::Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test v India at the Gabba
19471201::India cricket all out for 58 v Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2
19481201::Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine
19481201::Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
19491201::WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
19491201::WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
19511201::17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)
19511201::Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London
19511201::Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
19531201::Red Sox trade M McDermott & Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen
19531201::WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
19531201::WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
19531201::Walter Alston named Dodger manager
19541201::Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
19541201::Yanks send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson, Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
19551201::Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
19561201::"Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
19561201::Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0)
19561201::Frank Robinson (NL) & Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year
19561201::Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta, resigns
19571201::Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show
19581201::"Flower Drum Song" opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances
19581201::Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Natl Day)
19581201::Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic)
19591201::12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
19591201::1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
19591201::25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
19591201::The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
19601201::Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
19621201::Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
19621201::KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
19631201::NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0
19631201::Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
19641201::Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros
19641201::ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
19651201::Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
19651201::South Africa govt says children of white fathers are white
19661201::Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
19661201::Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo
19671201::Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle)
19671201::Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
19671201::Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams
19671201::Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
19681201::"Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
19681201::Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical premieres in NYC
19681201::Gonzalo Barrios elected pres of Venezuela
19681201::Peggy Wilson wins LPGA Hollywood Lakes Golf Open
19681201::Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
19691201::US govt holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
19701201::Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
19701201::NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins
19701201::Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen
19711201::"2 Gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYC for 613 perfs
19711201::Cubs release Ernie Banks & sign him as a coach
19711201::Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 gentlemen of Verona," premieres in NYC
19711201::John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
19711201::People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
19721201::Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
19731201::Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
19731201::Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
19731201::Jan Ferraris wins LPGA-Japan Golf Classic
19731201::Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champ
19741201::Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
19741201::Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
19741201::LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
19751201::US president Gerald Ford visits China PR
19761201::Angola admitted to UN
19761201::Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
19761201::Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
19781201::Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size
19781201::Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, v England at the Gabba
19781201::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19801201::46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
19801201::Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
19801201::US Justice Dept sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
19811201::180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain
19811201::Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed
19821201::Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
19821201::Michael Jackson releases "Thriller"
19821201::Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as pres of M‚xico
19831201::Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
19841201::50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
19841201::France performs nuclear test
19841201::Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title
19851201::Noraly Beyer becomes Neth's 1st black TV newscaster
19851201::STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
19851201::South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms
19861201::Mus‚e d'orsay opens in Paris
19861201::Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
19871201::Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
19881201::596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
19881201::Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
19881201::Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
19881201::NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
19881201::NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
19891201::"Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
19891201::East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
19891201::Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
19891201::USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
19901201::56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
19901201::British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
19901201::Hissene Habr‚ of Chad flees to Cameroon
19901201::Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
19901201::Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
19901201::NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
19911201::"Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin NYC after 32 perfs
19911201::"Once on this Island" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 469 perfs
19911201::80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1)
19911201::AIDS awareness day
19911201::Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
19911201::Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
19911201::US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
19911201::Ukrainian people vote for independence
19921201::2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
19921201::Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
19931201::Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
19941201::3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident
19941201::Cindy Crawford & Richard Gere announce they are seperating
19941201::Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
19941201::PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
19941201::Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London
19961201::85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2)
19961201::Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India
19971201::GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo
19971201::Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport IA on KORB 93.5 FM
19971201::Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS
16201202::English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
16821202::English earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam
16971202::St Paul's Cathedral opens in London
17631202::Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
17771202::British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
17901202::Austrian army occupies Brussels
18021202::English sell Suriname to Dutch
18041202::Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
18051202::Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
18121202::James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
18131202::Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
18161202::1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
18221202::In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
18231202::President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
18401202::Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris
18401202::Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
18401202::William H Harrison elected president of US
18481202::Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
18521202::2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
18641202::Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
18681202::1st British government of Disraeli resigns
18771202::Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' opera "Samson et Dalila," premieres in Weimar
18821202::Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
18831202::John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
18851202::Opera "Regina di Saba," premieres in Vienna
18871202::Amsterdam's Oscar Carr‚s Circus Theater opens
18871202::Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC)
18871202::French president Gr‚vy (80) resigns
18911202::52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
18951202::54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
18961202::Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke," premieres in Berlin
18991202::US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
19001202::South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
19011202::Gillette patents 1st disposable razor
19011202::King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
19021202::Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
19071202::English Professional Football Player's Association forms
19071202::Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
19081202::Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
19131202::Archdiocese of Managua created
19131202::Govt -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
19141202::Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
19161202::Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
19171202::Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
19221202::10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1
19241202::British-German trade agreement signed
19271202::1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
19281202::Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
19291202::1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
19321202::"Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
19331202::1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
19331202::Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady," released
19341202::5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
19391202::British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
19391202::NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight
19411202::Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY
19411202::NY Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry
19411202::Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
19411202::Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
19421202::1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
19431202::1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
19441202::10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
19441202::General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
19441202::German troops seize Betuwse dikes
19441202::US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
19471202::13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
19481202::Stan Musial is picked NL MVP
19501202::Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
19511202::"Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
19511202::Phila sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
19521202::18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
19521202::1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
19541202::"Hit the Trail" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
19541202::Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
19541202::US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
19561202::Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
19571202::1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
19571202::Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1
19581202::24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
19581202::Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
19581202::KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
19591202::Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
19611202::Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
19611202::Wind Bell, journal of SF Zen Center, begins publishing
19621202::50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
19631202::1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
19631202::ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965
19641202::Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
19661202::Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
19671202::55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
19681202::Pres Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
19691202::"Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
19691202::Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
19701202::Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
19701202::Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London
19711202::Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
19711202::United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
19711202::Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
19711202::Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes pres of UAE
19721202::"December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
19721202::"Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
19721202::60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
19721202::In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
19731202::62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
19731202::Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Wash DC opens
19731202::US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
19741202::Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
19741202::Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
19741202::Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
19751202::7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
19751202::G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt v WI
19751202::Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms
19751202::Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
19781202::Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
19781202::Neil Diamond & Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1
19781202::Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
19791202::Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
19791202::Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double
19791202::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19801202::4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
19811202::Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year
19811202::Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
19811202::Spanish government requests membership in NATO
19821202::1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
19841202::4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
19841202::Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG
19841202::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19851202::"Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 perfs
19851202::Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder
19851202::Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in NYC
19861202::Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
19871202::Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
19871202::Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colo becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx]
19871202::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19871202::"334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend NJ Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
19881202::"Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
19881202::5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
19881202::STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
19881202::UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains
19891202::55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
19891202::KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
19891202::Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
19901202::1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
19901202::1st time 12 people in space
19901202::79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
19901202::Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19901202::US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
19911202::Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
19911202::Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
19921202::WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
19931202::A Websters musical "Sunset Promenade" premieres in LA
19931202::Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
19931202::Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
19931202::Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
19941202::"Cobb" premieres
19941202::Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
19941202::Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
19941202::Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
19951202::17th ACE Cable Awards
19971202::MCI Center opens in Wash DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics
07411203::St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
13471203::Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics
15571203::1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
15861203::Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
16211203::Galileo invents telescope
16391203::1st annulment by court decree passes
16761203::Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen
16781203::Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford
16851203::Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
16941203::English parliamentary election set for every 3 years
16991203::Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague
17751203::1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
18181203::Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
18281203::Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
18331203::Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
18341203::1st US dental society organized (NY)
18351203::1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
18441203::RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms
18471203::Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
18631203::Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
18641203::Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia
18661203::Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
18681203::Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
18781203::Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel
18811203::Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa
18831203::48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
18931203::Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia
19011203::Milwaukee is dropped from the AL & replaced by St Louis Browns
19031203::Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh
19071203::George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town," premieres in NYC
19081203::Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres
19101203::Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)
19121203::Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
19121203::Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
19141203::Neth army shoots up ge‹nterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed
19201203::Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
19211203::9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
19221203::1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC
19231203::1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Wash DC)
19261203::Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
19291203::Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak
19301203::Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
19301203::Otto Ender forms Austrian govt
19301203::Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical "Evergreen," premieres in London
19311203::Alka Seltzer goes on sale
19321203::20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6
19321203::Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
19331203::Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000
19331203::Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
19341203::Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
19341203::KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn
19381203::AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
19391203::Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres
19411203::Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
19431203::9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)
19431203::Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
19431203::Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres
19431203::Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
19441203::British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
19441203::Hungarian death march of Jews ends
19441203::Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe
19441203::NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves
19441203::US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hrtgenwald
19461203::12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
19461203::US govt asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
19471203::Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire," premieres in NYC
19481203::"Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
19481203::1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
19481203::Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial
19481203::Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
19491203::KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
19501203::Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
19501203::Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
19501203::Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts
19521203::1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
19521203::Marcos Perez Jim‚nez elected president of Venezuela
19531203::"Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
19531203::Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
19531203::Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet
19541203::Samuel Barber's "Prayers of Kierkegaard," premieres
19541203::William Walton's opera "Troilus & Cressida," premieres in London
19551203::KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19561203::England & France pull troops out of Egypt
19561203::KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
19561203::Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
19571203::23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
19581203::Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
19591203::State of emergency on Cyprus ends
19601203::"Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances
19601203::Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot," premieres in NYC
19611203::Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
19611203::Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
19611203::George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
19611203::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19621203::Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
19621203::Pravda criticizes western art
19641203::"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
19641203::KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
19641203::Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley
19651203::Beatles begin final UK concert tour in Glasgow
19651203::USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
19661203::US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss
19671203::1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, S Africa)
19671203::Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4)
19671203::Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia
19671203::Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
19681203::Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" & strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters
19691203::John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
19701203::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19711203::Miss Teenage America Pageant
19711203::Pres Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
19721203::Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
19731203::Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
19751203::Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
19761203::Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
19781203::"King of Hearts" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
19781203::Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19791203::11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert [or 1204?]
19791203::45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern Cal (RB)
19791203::Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
19791203::Iran accepts constitution
19801203::NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
19811203::Beth Daniel/Tom Kite wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19811203::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19821203::1st NJ Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4
19821203::35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
19821203::77øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Dec
19821203::NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
19821203::Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez
19831203::"Marilyn: An American Fable" closes at Minskoff NYC after 16 perfs
19831203::49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)
19831203::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19841203::2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
19841203::Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc
19851203::23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
19861203::Sri Lanka all out 55 v WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs
19881203::54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)
19881203::NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
19891203::Pat Bradley/Bill Glasson wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19901203::NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with SF Giants
19911203::Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
19911203::Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
19911203::White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
19921203::UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
19951203::"Company" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 68 performances
19951203::"Holiday" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
19951203::84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
19951203::Beth Daniels/Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19951203::Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket v S Africa, a record
19951203::Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar
19951203::Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864
19971203::"1776," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
19971203::Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo
11101204::Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
11971204::Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
12591204::Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III & French king Louis IX
14891204::Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
15341204::Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad
15631204::Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
16191204::America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
16441204::1st European peace congress opens in Mnster
16551204::Middelburg Neth forbids building of synagogue
16651204::Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand," premieres in Paris
16741204::Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
16801204::Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
16821204::1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
16881204::General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III
16911204::Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania
16911204::Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands
17451204::Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
17831204::Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
17911204::Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published
17981204::Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt
18121204::Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
18161204::James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
18291204::Britain abolished "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
18321204::French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
18331204::American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila
18361204::Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
18431204::Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
18431204::Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig
18441204::James K Polk elected 11th president of US
18511204::Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
18631204::Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces
18641204::Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA
18641204::Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
18671204::Grange organized to protect farm interests
18751204::William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
18891204::Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
18901204::Willem III, Dutch king, buried
18991204::56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
18991204::Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
19011204::Anne Russell's "Girl & the judge," premieres in NYC
19051204::British government of Balfour resigns
19061204::Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
19081204::Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup
19091204::1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6
19141204::Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
19151204::F F Fletcher is 1st admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
19151204::Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
19151204::Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
19181204::Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office
19201204::1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
19201204::8th CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3
19221204::Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
19231204::Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres
19231204::WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
19261204::14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats U of Toronto, 10-7
19271204::Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow
19271204::Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
19271204::Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP
19281204::Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee," premieres in NYC
19301204::French govt of Tardieu falls
19301204::Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control
19311204::"Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair
19331204::FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
19331204::Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," premieres in NYC
19351204::1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
19411204::Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
19421204::1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
19421204::FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
19421204::US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
19421204::Works Progress Administration liquidated
19431204::-Dec 6] 2nd conference of Ca‹ro: FDR, Churchill & Turkish pres In”n
19431204::Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign Negroes
19431204::Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
19441204::Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
19451204::11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
19451204::Senate approves US participation in UN
19471204::USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
19481204::"Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 48 performances
19481204::SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
19491204::Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
19511204::Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper," premieres in NYC
19511204::Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
19521204::Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
19521204::Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
19541204::"Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 perfs
19541204::"On Your Toes" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 64 performances
19551204::Mgr Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
19561204::22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)
19571204::1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
19571204::2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
19581204::Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
19581204::Finnish govt of Fagerholm, resigns
19611204::Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
19611204::Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
19611204::Smallest NY Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
19611204::Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
19611204::WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19621204::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19631204::Aldo Moro forms Italian govt
19631204::Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council
19641204::Baseball approves a free-agent draft
19641204::Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
19641204::Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes
19641204::Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, v Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31
19651204::"Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert NYC after 232 perfs
19651204::2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
19651204::2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
19651204::Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
19651204::SF Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
19661204::KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
19661204::Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational
19701204::Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
19731204::Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
19741204::Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
19741204::Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison
19751204::6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
19761204::Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)
19771204::Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship
19771204::Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
19771204::NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
19771204::Neil Simon's "Chapter Two," premieres in NYC
19781204::Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
19781204::Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed
19781204::Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
19781204::War criminal Pieter Menten freed
19791204::Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
19791204::Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
19801204::2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up
19801204::Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
19811204::"Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
19811204::Pres Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
19811204::Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333)
19811204::According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa
19821204::48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
19821204::China adopts its constitution
19821204::Police & racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
19831204::"Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 83 performances
19831204::"Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 241 performances
19831204::David Shire & R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby," premieres in NYC
19831204::NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
19831204::US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
19841204::Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
19851204::"Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London
19851204::French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski
19851204::Pres Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
19861204::NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
19861204::Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound," premieres in NYC
19871204::Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
19881204::Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
19881204::Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19881204::Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
19881204::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19901204::Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
19901204::Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
19911204::Judds final concert (Nashville)
19911204::Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years)
19911204::Pan American World Airways ceased operations
19911204::Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
19931204::Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
19931204::Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
19941204::"Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W Kerr NYC after 216 perfs
19941204::"Angels in America-Millennium Approach" closes at Kerr after 367 perfs
19941204::83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
19941204::Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19951204::Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
19961204::7th Billboard Music Awards
19961204::NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
19961204::Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
19971204::"Diary of Anne Frank," opens at Music Box Theater NYC
19971204::NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach
97711204::Karel, the Great, becomes king of all France
13011205::Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee)
13491205::500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots
14481205::Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication
14561205::Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
14921205::Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espa€ola/Haiti)
14961205::Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
15901205::Niccol• Sfondrati chosen Pope Gregory XIV
16021205::Giulio Caccini's "Euridice," premieres in Florence
17411205::-6] Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers
17571205::Battle at Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians
17661205::London auctioneers Christie's hold their 1st sale
17761205::1st US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William & Mary College), forms
17921205::George Washington re-elected US pres
17981205::Govt troops occupy Hasselt
18041205::Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
18131205::Lbeck surrenders to allied armies
18301205::Hector Berlioz' "Symphonique fantastique," premieres in Paris
18311205::Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
18321205::Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US
18371205::Hector Berlioz' "Requiem," premieres
18371205::Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
18461205::C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
18481205::Pres Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms Calif gold discovery
18541205::Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair
18591205::Dion Boucicault's "Octaroon," premieres in NYC
18611205::Gatling gun patented
18621205::Battle of Coffeeville, MS
18681205::1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
18761205::Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
18761205::Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
18791205::1st automatic telephone switching system patented
18811205::47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
18871205::Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo
18901205::Berlioz' opera "Les Troyens," premieres in Karlsruhe
18921205::Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
18931205::1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges
18941205::Georges Feydeaus' "L'h“tel du libre ‚change," premieres in Paris
18961205::Henrik Ibsen's "Kejsor og Galileer," premieres in Leipzig
19051205::Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes PM of England
19061205::British govt-Balfour resigns
19081205::1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
19141205::6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats U of Toronto, 14-2
19181205::Oil refinery on Cura‡ao opens
19201205::Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
19241205::Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5
19251205::13th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats Win Tammany Tigers, 24-1
19251205::German govt of Luther falls
19261205::Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin," debuts
19281205::England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane
19281205::MW Miklas elected president of Austria
19291205::1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
19311205::CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal
19321205::German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
19331205::21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)
19351205::1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello Calif)
19351205::National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
19361205::24th CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20
19361205::Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union
19411205::Football Writers Association of America organized
19411205::Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," premieres in NYC
19411205::Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
19411205::Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
19411205::US aircraft carrier Lexington/5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
19421205::CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto
19421205::Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work
19421205::West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland
19431205::NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
19441205::German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
19451205::"Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
19451205::Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl
19461205::Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
19471205::Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19481205::NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
19491205::Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
19501205::Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
19501205::Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
19511205::"Dragnet" premieres
19521205::-8] worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
19541205::KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting
19551205::AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
19551205::Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
19561205::Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker," premieres in NYC
19571205::William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," premieres in NYC
19571205::NYC is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
19581205::Phils drop plans for NY sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Phila
19581205::WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
19591205::Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests
19601205::Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
19661205::"I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 561 performances
19671205::Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens
19671205::Benjamin Spock & Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
19681205::Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP
19691205::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19701205::LA Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing
19701205::Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy & Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame
19711205::KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast
19721205::38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL)
19721205::Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election
19721205::Joseph A Walkers "River Niger," premieres in NYC
19731205::Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade
19731205::Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall
19731205::Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
19741205::"Monty Python's Flying Circus" last shown on BBC
19741205::1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
19741205::1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
19741205::Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
19741205::Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC
19741205::NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms
19741205::Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
19741205::Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
19751205::"Me & Bessie" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 453 performances
19751205::NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
19761205::Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards
19771205::Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen
19781205::EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System
19781205::Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies
19781205::Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player
19781205::Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
19781205::Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," premieres in NYC
19781205::Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders
19791205::Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns
19801205::Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
19811205::47th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Allen, Southern Cal (RB)
19811205::56th Australian Women Tennis: Navratilova beats Chris Evert (67 64 75)
19811205::France performs nuclear test
19821205::Cleve Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions
19821205::Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy
19821205::Ingrid Berghmans (Neth) retains judo's world championship
19821205::Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
19821205::Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
19821205::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19831205::12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
19831205::LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
19841205::A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell & Jose Rijo
19841205::French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
19841205::Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher
19851205::Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
19851205::Great Britain performs nuclear test
19851205::Sam Shepard's "Lie of the Mind," premieres in NYC
19871205::53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)
19871205::David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 v NZ at Brisbane
19871205::Sch”nbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76)
19881205::NC fed grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud & conspiracy
19881205::Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
19891205::France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
19901205::Blue Jays trade F McGriff & T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar & J Carter
19901205::Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
19901205::Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years
19911205::"Catskills on Broadway" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 perfs
19911205::Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
19911205::NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
19931205::"Timon of Athens" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
19931205::82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)
19931205::Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
19931205::Melissa Mcnamara/Mike Sopringer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19931205::Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds Sharon Wix (39)
19931205::Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela
19961205::"Dreams & Nightmares," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
19961205::Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement
19961205::Portland's Jermaine O'Neal, 18, becomes youngest NBA player
19971205::1st Game at Wash Capitals' MCI Center vs Fla Panthers
19971205::STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands
09631206::Leo VIII elected Pope
11601206::Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas," premieres in Arras
11961206::Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood"
12401206::Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev
14241206::Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
14911206::King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
14921206::Haiti discovered by Columbus, at M“le Saint Nicolas
15271206::Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
15341206::Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
16311206::1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
16411206::Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
16481206::Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament
17231206::Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
17321206::1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
17451206::Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
17561206::British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
17681206::1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
17871206::Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
17901206::Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital
18201206::US president James Monroe re-elected
18221206::Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
18251206::Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
18331206::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
18411206::Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres
18431206::Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
18461206::Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
18491206::Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
18621206::Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
18641206::Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
18651206::13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
18661206::Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
18701206::Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
18731206::1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
18751206::44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
18761206::1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
18761206::City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
18761206::US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
18771206::1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)
18771206::Washington Post publishes 1st edition
18821206::Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
18841206::Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
18961206::D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
19031206::Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
19041206::Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
19071206::Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
19121206::China votes for universal human rights
19131206::White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
19141206::German troops over run L¢dz
19161206::German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
19171206::Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
19171206::French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
19211206::Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland
19221206::1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
19221206::1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
19231206::1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
19251206::Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
19251206::Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
19291206::Turkey introduces female suffrage
19301206::18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6
19301206::Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
19331206::Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US, lifted
19381206::117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
19381206::French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
19391206::5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
19391206::Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady," premieres in NYC
19401206::Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
19401206::Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
19411206::Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
19411206::King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
19411206::NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
19421206::Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth
19421206::RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
19441206::US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
19501206::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
19521206::Czech govt tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
19531206::Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14
19541206::Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
19551206::NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
19561206::"Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
19561206::Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr
19571206::1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
19571206::AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
19571206::Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
19581206::US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
19601206::AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
19611206::27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
19621206::US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
19631206::Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
19631206::Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba
19641206::KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
19641206::President Segni of Italy resigns
19651206::2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
19661206::Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
19671206::USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
19681206::Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
19681206::PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
19681206::WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
19691206::"Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
19691206::300,000 attend Altamont Calif, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
19691206::USSR performs nuclear test
19701206::Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
19711206::Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
19731206::Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
19731206::Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
19731206::NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
19741206::George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
19751206::41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
19751206::Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry
19761206::War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
19771206::South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
19781206::Spain adopts constitution
19801206::Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
19801206::NASA launches Intelsat V
19811206::Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18
19821206::Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed
19821206::Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce
19821206::11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland
19831206::A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
19841206::France performs nuclear test
19841206::Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
19861206::52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB)
19861206::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19871206::3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
19871206::Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
19871206::Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19881206::Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
19881206::Carlos Andr‚s P‚rez re-elected president of Venezuela
19881206::Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
19881206::Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
19881206::Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
19881206::STS-27 Atlantis lands in Calif after secret mission
19881206::Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles
19891206::Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogot , kills 52
19891206::Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montr‚al
19901206::NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
19901206::Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
19901206::Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
19911206::"Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen
19911206::"Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres
19921206::300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
19921206::81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
19921206::Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19921206::SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown
19921206::SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
19931206::Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
19941206::Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590
19941206::Orange County Calif files for bankruptcy
19941206::Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995
19951206::6th Billboard Music Awards
19951206::Michael Jackson collapses will rehearsing for an HBO special
19961206::Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match
19981206::JC Penney Golf Classic
01851207::Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)
02831207::St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
13541207::Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
16461207::Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry
17411207::Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
17831207::Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
17831207::William Pitt Jr (24) becomes British premier
17871207::Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
18081207::James Madison elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
18351207::German railway Neurenberg-Frth opens
18361207::Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
18421207::NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
18621207::Battle of Hartsville, TN
18621207::Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
18641207::Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia
18681207::Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
18721207::HMS Challenger sets sail on 3«-year world oceanographic cruise
18751207::Natives Sons of the West organized
18761207::NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
18771207::Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone
18851207::49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
18891207::Gilbert & Sullivans "Gondoliers," premieres in London
18911207::52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
18951207::Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies
19071207::Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
19091207::Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
19111207::Leslie J Stuarts musical "Betsy," premieres in NYC
19111207::Natl Hockey Assn forms with New Westminister, Vancouver & Victoria
19121207::Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
19161207::British govt of David Lloyd George forms
19161207::David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
19171207::US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
19201207::NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81
19201207::USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
19211207::KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
19241207::German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis & Communists lose)
19251207::Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St NYC
19251207::No‰l Coward's "Easy Virtue," premieres in NYC
19261207::Gas refrigerator patented
19291207::Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins
19291207::Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
19301207::13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing
19311207::Bradman scores 219 NSW v South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours
19321207::1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
19341207::Wiley Post discovers jet stream
19351207::CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton
19371207::Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
19371207::Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams
19371207::Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
19381207::Philip Barry's "Here Come the Clowns," premieres in NYC
19381207::W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
19391207::Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
19391207::William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland
19401207::28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5
19401207::North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor
19411207::Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
19411207::Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu
19411207::German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
19411207::Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
19411207::Nacht & Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
19411207::1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
19431207::Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US
19441207::Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago
19441207::General Radescu forms Romanian government
19451207::Microwave oven patented
19461207::Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
19491207::15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)
19491207::Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
19521207::KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
19531207::Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires
19531207::WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
19541207::Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
19541207::KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19551207::Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party
19561207::Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
19571207::Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
19581207::R¢mulo B‚tancourt elected pres of Venezuela
19591207::"Saratoga" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
19601207::Ivory Coast claims independence from France
19621207::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19631207::Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans
19641207::George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
19651207::Pope Paul VI & Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054
19671207::"How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 perfs
19671207::Otis Rescue records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
19681207::M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
19681207::Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
19681207::Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
19701207::Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma
19701207::West Germany & Poland normalize relations
19711207::"Wild & Wonderful" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater NYC
19711207::Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
19721207::Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
19721207::Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
19731207::Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
19731207::Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers
19731207::Wings release "Band on the Run"
19751207::10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
19751207::Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus
19751207::Indonesian army occupies East Timor
19751207::Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament
19761207::UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
19771207::Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
19781207::Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
19811207::Spain becomes a member of the NATO
19821207::Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
19831207::2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
19831207::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19841207::Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)
19851207::51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)
19851207::Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
19861207::Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19861207::Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Ha‹ti
19871207::43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in Calif (man shot pilots)
19871207::Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
19871207::Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43
19871207::Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
19881207::6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed
19881207::Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)
19881207::Earthquake in Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)
19881207::Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
19881207::Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
19881207::NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
19881207::Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract
19891207::C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels," premieres in NYC
19901207::Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
19901207::Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
19911207::A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
19921207::Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
19931207::Henri Konan B‚di‚ names himself President of Ivory coast
19931207::Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery
19941207::5th Billboard Music Awards
19941207::Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide
19951207::NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
19951207::US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter
19961207::Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
19971207::Amy Fruhwirth & Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic
13261208::Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
17101208::Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured
17761208::George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
17771208::Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
17921208::1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
17941208::1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
18131208::Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
18461208::Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres
18491208::Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples
18521208::Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau
18541208::Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
18571208::1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
18631208::2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
18631208::Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
18631208::Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
18631208::Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
18641208::Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
18691208::20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
18741208::Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
18751208::Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St Petersburg
18761208::Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
18801208::5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
18811208::Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
18861208::American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
18951208::Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out
18961208::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
18991208::Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
19021208::Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
19091208::Bird banding society found
19131208::Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
19141208::British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
19141208::Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
19141208::Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step," premieres in NYC
19151208::Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres
19211208::Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
19231208::German-US friendship treaty signed
19231208::Labour/Liberals win British parliament
19231208::Salary & price freeze in Germany
19301208::Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway NYC
19301208::Cole Porter's musical "NYCers," premieres in NYC
19311208::Coaxial cable patented
19341208::Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zrich
19361208::Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
19361208::NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
19381208::Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
19381208::LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
19401208::1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
19411208::Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
19411208::London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
19411208::Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
19411208::SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
19411208::US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
19421208::8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
19431208::John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle," premieres in NYC
19461208::Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
19471208::"Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 perfs
19481208::"Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
19481208::14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
19481208::Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
19491208::"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 perfs
19491208::Chinese Nationalist govt moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
19491208::Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," premieres in NYC
19511208::"Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs
19511208::AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
19521208::1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
19521208::French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
19521208::Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
19531208::19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
19541208::Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in NYC
19541208::WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
19551208::21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
19551208::Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
19551208::Turkish govt of Menderes forms
19561208::16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
19561208::1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
19561208::Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
19591208::Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
19591208::President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
19601208::Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
19611208::Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
19611208::Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
19611208::S Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
19611208::Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
19621208::"I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 perfs
19621208::114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
19621208::Failed coup in Brunei
19621208::Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
19631208::"Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 perfs
19631208::Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr wins LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf
19631208::3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
19651208::Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower," premieres in NYC
19651208::Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of USSR
19651208::Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
19661208::A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
19661208::US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
19671208::Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
19671208::NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
19691208::Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
19691208::Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
19721208::United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
19731208::"Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
19731208::39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
19741208::Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
19741208::Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
19741208::Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
19741208::Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
19751208::"Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
19761208::UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
19761208::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19771208::43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
19771208::Portugal's premier Soares resigns
19781208::Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park
19801208::"Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
19811208::France performs nuclear test
19821208::"Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 perfs
19821208::Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
19821208::Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
19821208::Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Wash Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
19831208::9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
19831208::Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of SF Zen Center
19841208::73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
19841208::Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lom‚ III treaty
19841208::Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
19851208::60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
19851208::Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
19851208::Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19861208::House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
19871208::Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
19871208::Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
19871208::Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
19871208::President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
19881208::Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
19891208::Great Britain performs nuclear test
19901208::Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
19901208::Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
19911208::"Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
19911208::"Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
19911208::Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19911208::Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
19921208::Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
19921208::NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
19931208::30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
19931208::4th Billboard Music Awards
19931208::Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
19931208::Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
19941208::"What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq NYC for 12 per
19941208::Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
19941208::Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
19961208::"God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
19961208::Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19971208::8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win
05361209::Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten
06561209::Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion
12121209::Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king
13151209::Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society)
14251209::Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
15701209::Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein
16251209::Netherlands & England sign military treaty
16401209::Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
16581209::Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India
16881209::King James II's wife & son flee England for France
17241209::Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt," premieres in London
17381209::Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
17471209::England & Netherlands sign military treaty
17621209::British parliament accept Treaty of Paris
17831209::1st execution at English Newgate-jail
17931209::Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
18051209::Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth
18241209::Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
18421209::St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg
18511209::1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montr‚al)
18541209::Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
18611209::Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
18681209::1st British govt of Gladstone forms
18691209::Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
18781209::Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
18831209::New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
18841209::Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
18891209::President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium
18941209::Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
19001209::Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
19021209::AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY
19031209::Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
19051209::French Assembly National votes for separation of church & state
19051209::Richard Strauss' opera "Salome," premiers in Dresden
19061209::NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo
19071209::1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
19071209::Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
19091209::1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
19101209::French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
19131209::Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
19131209::John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
19171209::British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
19181209::French troops occupies Mainz
19221209::Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
19241209::Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
19241209::Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
19251209::AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 & raise to $40,000
19251209::Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
19261209::USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
19311209::Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in NYC
19311209::Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
19311209::Spain becomes a republic
19311209::Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
19331209::21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3
19331209::Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
19341209::NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
19361209::AL OKs night baseball for St Louis
19361209::Australia all out 58 v Eng Bradman out for a duck
19391209::27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7
19391209::Russian air raid on Helsinki
19401209::British assault on Banghazi Libya
19401209::British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
19401209::Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
19401209::South Australia all out for 47 v NSW, O'Reilly 5-11
19411209::1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
19411209::300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
19411209::7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)
19411209::China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
19411209::Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
19411209::Hitler orders US ships torpedoed
19481209::UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
19491209::Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
19491209::NFL merges Cleve Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
19511209::Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wrttemberg, W Germ
19531209::General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
19531209::Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
19541209::Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad
19571209::1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
19581209::Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
19601209::1st broadcast of "Coronation Street" on British ITV
19611209::"From the Second City" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 perfs
19611209::"Let It Ride" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 68 perfs
19611209::SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel
19611209::Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
19611209::Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
19621209::"I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
19621209::Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
19631209::Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
19631209::Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
19651209::"A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres
19651209::Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles
19651209::Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
19671209::Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
19671209::Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House
19671209::Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
19681209::KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
19701209::Dutch Antilles: govt of Petronia falls
19711209::Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
19731209::"Pajama Game" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
19731209::Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ
19731209::St Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons
19731209::Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland
19741209::Dow Jones index hits 570.01
19741209::Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ
19741209::Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
19751209::Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
19751209::Pres Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for NYC
19781209::Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
19781209::1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
19791209::Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19801209::61øF in Boston at 1 AM
19811209::Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
19821209::Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
19831209::Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it"
19831209::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19841209::59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63)
19841209::6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
19841209::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19841209::Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
19841209::LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards
19841209::Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19851209::74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63)
19851209::Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
19851209::Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
19871209::Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
19871209::Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
19881209::NY Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M
19891209::"Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
19901209::Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship
19901209::Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
19901209::Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
19901209::Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
19901209::NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
19911209::2nd Billboard Music Awards
19921209::3rd Billboard Music Awards
19921209::Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
19921209::Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
19921209::Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts)
19921209::NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, & white for the 1992-93 season
19931209::"My Fair Lady" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
19931209::Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
19941209::5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth
19941209::Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments
19951209::61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)
07411210::Zacharias becomes Pope
12941210::Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
15081210::League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
15201210::Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
15821210::France begins use of Gregorian calendar
16521210::Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
16721210::NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
16881210::King James II flees London
16901210::Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
17451210::Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
17991210::Metric system established in France
18101210::Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
18161210::Dutch regain Sumatra
18171210::Mississippi admitted as 20th state
18311210::"Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
18641210::General Shermans armies reach Savannah & 12 day siege begins
18691210::Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
18821210::John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres
18871210::Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
18961210::1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
18961210::Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," premieres in Paris
18981210::Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
18991210::-15] British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa
18991210::Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army
18991210::Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang," premieres in Berlin
19011210::1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Fr‚d‚ric Passy)
19031210::Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
19041210::King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
19061210::Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
19071210::Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
19101210::JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
19111210::Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
19111210::Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
19131210::Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
19141210::French government returns to Paris
19151210::10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
19151210::Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
19181210::John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
19191210::NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
19191210::NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
19191210::Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
19221210::Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
19221210::Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
19231210::Polish govt of Grabski, forms
19241210::Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
19241210::Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
19251210::George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
19261210::1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
19261210::2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
19271210::Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
19291210::Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
19311210::Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
19311210::Manuel Aza€a becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
19321210::King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
19341210::Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
19341210::NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
19341210::Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
19351210::A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
19351210::White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
19361210::King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson
19361210::Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
19361210::England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
19381210::26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
19381210::Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
19391210::Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0
19391210::KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
19401210::British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
19411210::British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
19411210::Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
19411210::Japanese troops overrun Guam
19421210::Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
19421210::North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under col-gen von Arnim
19431210::British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy
19441210::9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
19441210::German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
19451210::Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
19451210::Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
19471210::USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
19481210::UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
19501210::Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
19521210::Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
19521210::WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19521210::Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
19531210::"John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs
19531210::KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
19531210::WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
19541210::Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
19541210::Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
19561210::Establishment of MPLA in Angola
19581210::1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
19581210::U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
19611210::Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
19611210::Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
19611210::US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
19611210::USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
19621210::Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
19631210::6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
19631210::Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
19641210::Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
19651210::"Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
19651210::Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
19651210::Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
19661210::Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
19661210::Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
19681210::Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
19701210::North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
19711210::West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
19711210::William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
19721210::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19731210::1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
19741210::European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
19741210::Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
19741210::Space probe Helios 1 launched
19751210::Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
19751210::Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ
19761210::Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
19771210::Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
19781210::"Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
19781210::67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
19781210::In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
19781210::Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
19791210::Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
19801210::Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
19801210::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19811210::-13] El Salvador army kills 900
19811210::Jules Feiffer's "Grownups," premieres in NYC
19821210::Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
19821210::Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
19831210::58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
19831210::Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
19831210::Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
19831210::Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
19841210::1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
19841210::South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
19841210::WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
19851210::Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
19851210::Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
19861210::Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
19861210::France performs nuclear test
19861210::Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
19871210::"Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
19881210::Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
19891210::President Gustav Hus k of Czechoslovakia, resigns
19901210::Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
19901210::Soyuz TM-10 lands
19901210::Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
19911210::"Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
19911210::IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
19911210::Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
19911210::Howard Spira sentenced to 2« years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
19921210::"My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs
19921210::NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
19921210::NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
19921210::Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
19931210::Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
19941210::60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
19941210::European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
19941210::Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
19951210::1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
19951210::Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
19951210::Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
19951210::Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
19951210::Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
19951210::Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
03841211::St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
14191211::Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
14771211::Duchess Maria van Bourgondi‰ ends Great Privilegie
15721211::Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem
16181211::Russia & Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino
16201211::103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
16651211::"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna
16881211::King James II arrested
17101211::Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
17181211::Battle at Frederikshall Norway
17191211::1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
17301211::Voltaire's "Brutus," premieres in Paris
17921211::France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
18121211::1st newspaper on Cura‡ao (Cura‡ao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
18161211::Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
18161211::Indiana becomes 19th state
18441211::1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
18661211::1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
18721211::1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
18821211::Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
18821211::Victorien Sardous "Fedora," with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris
18881211::French Panama Canal company fails
18931211::11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed
18991211::Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronj‚ vs Gen Methuen
19011211::Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
19031211::British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
19051211::120ø F (49ø C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
19051211::British govt of Campbell-Bannerman forms
19061211::US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
19081211::Frederick Delius' "In a Summer Garden," premieres
19091211::Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
19091211::Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
19141211::Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
19161211::David Lloyd George forms British war govt
19171211::13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
19171211::German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
19191211::Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
19251211::Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas
19261211::Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam
19261211::Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, v NSW
19281211::Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
19281211::NL Pres John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers
19301211::Bank of the United States opens in NYC
19311211::Japan leaves the Golden Standard
19311211::Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
19321211::SF's coldest day (27øF) - it snows
19341211::1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland
19341211::1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
19341211::Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
19341211::NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
19361211::King Edward VIII marries Mrs Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne Duke of York becomes King George VI
19371211::25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
19371211::Italy withdraws from League of Nations
19381211::NY Giants win NFL championship
19391211::New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed
19401211::Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
19411211::Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
19411211::Germany & Italy declare war on US
19411211::Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players & $50,000
19411211::Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
19411211::Japanese occupy Guam
19421211::Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia
19441211::Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
19451211::Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
19461211::Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
19461211::Spain suspended from UN
19461211::UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
19471211::"Angel in the Wings" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 308 performances
19471211::Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical "Angel in Wings," premieres in NYC
19471211::Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
19481211::WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
19481211::WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
19491211::Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
19491211::Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
19491211::WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
19501211::Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract
19501211::Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres
19511211::Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement
19531211::KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
19541211::Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
19541211::USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
19561211::Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
19571211::Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra
19581211::4th (last) Dutch govt of Drees falls
19581211::Archibald MacLeish's "JB," premieres in NYC
19581211::Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
19591211::Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer & Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley & Joe Deaestri
19601211::Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
19601211::Coleman/Leigh's musical "Wildcat" with Lucille Ball premieres in NYC
19601211::Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run
19611211::"Please, Mr. Postman" by Marvelettes, released
19611211::Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
19611211::Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
19611211::JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
19651211::"Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 16 performances
19651211::"Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 3 performances
19661211::Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
19671211::6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
19671211::Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
19671211::People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
19671211::SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
19681211::KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
19681211::US Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband
19691211::Libya adopts constitution
19701211::John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
19701211::Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, v England
19701211::Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell
19721211::Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
19721211::Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
19731211::Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
19731211::NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
19731211::Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet
19731211::West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
19751211::1st class postage rises from 10› to 13›
19751211::Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis & Ken Brett from Pirates for George "Doc" Medich
19771211::Billboard Awards
19781211::6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
19791211::Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
19791211::Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
19801211::Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria
19811211::Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees
19811211::Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
19811211::Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
19811211::Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
19811211::UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
19811211::Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
19831211::1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
19831211::72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64)
19831211::Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19841211::"Doug Henning & His World..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 60 perf
19841211::Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
19851211::Computer store owner in Sacramento Calif killed by package bomb
19851211::Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)
19851211::General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
19851211::NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 & ties record of 21 goals
19861211::A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
19861211::South Africa censors press
19871211::Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
19891211::"City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
19891211::Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
19901211::13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
19901211::US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
19911211::William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
19921211::Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
19921211::WNEW AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
19931211::59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)
19931211::Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile
19941211::Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
19941211::Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjeni‰
19951211::Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million
19971211::"Sunshine Boys," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC
19971211::Fed judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows
06271212::Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen
10981212::1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
14741212::Isabella crowns herself queen of Castili‰ & Aragon
14791212::Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
15241212::Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome
15271212::Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice
16531212::Barebone-parliament ends
16771212::Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin
17001212::Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar
17151212::Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund [NS=12/23]
17691212::Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
17871212::Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
17911212::Bank of US opens
17921212::In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
18001212::Washington DC established as capital of US
18221212::Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US
18581212::1st Canadian coins circulated (1›, 5›, 10› & 20›)
18621212::Battle of Dumfries, VA
18621212::Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
18701212::Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
18711212::Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
18781212::Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St Louis Dispatch"
18841212::1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval
18971212::Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
18971212::Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in NY Journal
18981212::1st 1st-class game between NSW & Tasmania
18991212::1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii
18991212::George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
19001212::National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed
19011212::Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
19031212::Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
19041212::CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna," premieres in NYC
19061212::Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish govt member, appointed Sec of Commerce
19121212::R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly," premieres in NYC
19131212::"Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
19131212::Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools
19151212::1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
19151212::Aristide Briand forms French war govt
19151212::Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
19161212::Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed)
19171212::French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
19171212::Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
19201212::Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris
19251212::Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
19251212::Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia
19251212::Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
19261212::Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert
19281212::Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe," premieres in NYC
19301212::Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book
19301212::Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double
19301212::Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
19311212::Japanese Govt of Imukai forms
19321212::S N Behrmans "Biography," premieres in NYC
19321212::USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
19361212::Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
19371212::NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
19371212::Washington Redskins win NFL championship
19371212::Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
19391212::Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
19401212::British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
19411212::European reservists on Java mobilizes
19411212::German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
19411212::Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
19421212::German offensive in South Western Stalingrad
19451212::Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
19461212::Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
19461212::Tide detergent introduced
19461212::UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
19471212::United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
19491212::AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball
19501212::16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)
19501212::Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus & high school rule
19511212::Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
19521212::Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
19531212::Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
19551212::1st prototype of hovercraft patented by Brit eng Christoper Cockerell
19571212::Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
19571212::US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
19571212::Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham
19581212::Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
19581212::Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies v W Indies at Kanpur
19591212::UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
19611212::Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
19611212::Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
19621212::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19631212::Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron
19631212::Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
19631212::Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
19641212::Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
19641212::Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)
19651212::Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales)
19651212::Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155
19651212::Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
19651212::Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St & Amsterdam Ave NYC
19661212::US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
19671212::US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
19681212::Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
19681212::Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
19681212::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19691212::"Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres
19691212::Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points)
19691212::Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
19701212::Polish government proclaims price rise
19701212::Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
19701212::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19731212::Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 & $10 silver coins)
19731212::San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
19751212::Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
19751212::Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill Pres Gerald Ford
19761212::QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
19771212::Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
19791212::Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
19791212::Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
19801212::US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
19811212::"1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 37 performances
19811212::Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
19811212::Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
19821212::"Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador NYC after 6 perf
19821212::$9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
19821212::57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63)
19821212::Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19831212::A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
19851212::248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
19851212::DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
19851212::NASA launches space vehicle S-207
19861212::David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide
19861212::James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG
19861212::Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
19861212::South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested
19871212::Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
19871212::Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
19871212::Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
19881212::3 trains collide in London, 40 die
19881212::NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
19881212::PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
19881212::Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
19901212::US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
19901212::US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
19911212::Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
19911212::Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community
19911212::NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
19911212::Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
19911212::Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
19921212::58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami-Fla (QB)
19921212::6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
19921212::Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada
19921212::Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
19921212::NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
19931212::"Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 32 performances
19931212::"Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 34 performances
19931212::WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC
19951212::CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31
19951212::Israeli PM Shimon Peres address both house of US congress
19951212::NBA referees return to work after striking
19951212::Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote)
19961212::Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain)
19961212::Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou
19971212::Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris
19971212::Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
19971212::Japanese train builders (Maglev) claim world speed record at 332 MPH
19971212::Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract
19971212::SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages
19971212::TWA 800 hearings end
19971212::Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him
08631213::Boudouin with the Iron Arm weds Charles de Kales' daughter Judith
12941213::Pope Coelestinus V ends term
15451213::Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
15451213::Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
15701213::Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin
15721213::Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under admiral Lumey
15771213::Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
16211213::Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
16421213::New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
16681213::Jean Racines "Britannicus," premieres in Paris
17341213::England & Russia sign trade agreement
17421213::Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes
17591213::1st music store in America opens (Phila)
17691213::Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
17741213::1st incident of Revolution-400 attack Ft William & Mary, NH
18161213::Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
18231213::Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
18331213::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagoni‰
18431213::"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
18611213::Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
18621213::Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
18641213::Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
18791213::1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
18891213::Belgium rules on women/child labor law
18951213::1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony
19001213::Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
19011213::Test debut of S F Barnes v Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
19031213::Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
19031213::Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
19061213::German chancellor Bernhard von Blow disbands the Parliament
19071213::George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG
19071213::German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
19131213::Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
19161213::Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
19161213::Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
19161213::French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
19181213::US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
19181213::Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
19191213::Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
19201213::F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
19201213::League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague
19201213::Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
19221213::Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps
19241213::KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
19281213::Clip-on tie designed
19281213::George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
19301213::George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him
19301213::Theodore Steeg forms French govt
19341213::Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC
19361213::Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC
19361213::Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
19381213::Los Angeles freezes at 28øF
19391213::Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
19411213::German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
19411213::Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
19411213::U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal
19421213::Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader
19421213::Washington Redskins defeat Chic Bears 14-6, to win NFL title
19431213::150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
19441213::Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
19441213::Norman Krasna's "Dear Ruth," premieres in NYC
19461213::L‚on Blum elected French premier
19471213::"Caribbean Carnival" closes at International NYC after 11 perfs
19471213::Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
19491213::AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
19491213::Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
19501213::"Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 5 perfs
19501213::James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
19511213::Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
19531213::KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
19561213::Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield & $35,000 Robinson retires
19591213::Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
19601213::Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
19601213::Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
19611213::Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein
19611213::Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
19611213::Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
19621213::Relay 1 communication satellite launched
19631213::Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
19641213::Shirley Englehorn & Sam Snead wins Haig & Haig Mixed Foursome Golf
19641213::In El Paso, Tx, LBJ & M‚xican Pres Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-M‚xico border
19651213::Algerian president Boum‚dienne visits Moscow
19661213::1st US bombing of Hanoi
19661213::1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
19661213::Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78
19661213::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19671213::United Soccer Assn & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
19671213::Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
19681213::Playland at Beach reopens
19681213::Pres Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power
19691213::Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
19691213::Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
19701213::Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut v England at the WACA
19701213::Neil Simon's "Gingerbread Lady," premieres in NYC
19711213::John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed
19731213::MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
19731213::World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
19741213::Jim "Catfish" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley
19741213::Malta becomes a republic
19751213::1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
19751213::Australian Conservatives & Liberals win parliamentary election
19751213::Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
19751213::Roy Fredericks hits 169 v Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls
19751213::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19761213::Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
19761213::Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
19771213::14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
19781213::Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
19791213::"Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
19791213::Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
19801213::"Perfectly Frank" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 16 perfs
19811213::70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1)
19811213::Polish govt declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
19821213::71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62)
19821213::Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
19831213::9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
19831213::British Airways incorporates
19831213::Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
19831213::KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
19831213::Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
19841213::Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
19851213::David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide
19851213::Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh & Bruce Reid (v India)
19871213::Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
19871213::Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
19871213::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19881213::3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
19881213::Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
19891213::Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
19901213::"Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
19901213::Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
19901213::Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
19911213::Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
19911213::NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
19911213::Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
19921213::"Show Off" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
19921213::Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
19921213::FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
19931213::Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
19931213::Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
19931213::Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
19931213::Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
19941213::American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
19951213::Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center
19951213::US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations
19961213::Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays
19971213::63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)
06441214::Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam
08671214::Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08721214::John VIII elected as Catholic Pope
11241214::Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)
12871214::Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
14901214::Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria
15751214::Polish Parliament selects Istv n B thory as king of Poland
15821214::Zealand/Brabant Neth adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25
16001214::Olivier van Noort sinks Sp galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die
16561214::Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales
17081214::Prosper Jolyot's "Electre," premieres in Paris
17741214::Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary
17821214::Charleston, SC evacuated by British
17931214::1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
17981214::David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
18191214::Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
18251214::Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
18491214::1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
18631214::Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
18821214::Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo
18891214::American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
18941214::Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus v Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)
18941214::Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren
19011214::1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)
19031214::Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut
19111214::South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
19131214::Greece formally takes possession of Crete
19151214::Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
19171214::UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
19181214::Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico," premieres in NYC
19201214::Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in NYC
19201214::Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
19231214::Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)
19241214::Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou
19241214::Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma," premieres in Paris
19261214::Danish Madsen govt, forms
19271214::Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
19281214::2nd Test Cricket Australia v England starts with Bradman 12th man
19291214::Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece
19301214::NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
19311214::1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
19321214::French govt of Herriot falls
19331214::Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam
19341214::1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)
19351214::Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v S Africa, Durban
19371214::Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
19381214::AL permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games
19381214::Major leagues agrees on standard ball
19381214::Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25
19381214::Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president
19391214::Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
19411214::1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
19411214::Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York
19411214::U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea
19441214::Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany
19441214::Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
19441214::German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland
19451214::Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl," premieres in NYC
19461214::"Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 perfs
19461214::Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
19461214::UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC
19471214::Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
19501214::"Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 perfs
19501214::UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
19501214::Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
19521214::KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
19521214::R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut v Pakistan, Calcutta
19521214::Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die
19531214::Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax
19541214::WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
19551214::Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar
19551214::Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic
19561214::Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO
19571214::"Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 perfs
19571214::"Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances
19591214::Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
19591214::J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m
19601214::Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie
19601214::Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
19601214::Washington Senators joins American League
19611214::Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record
19621214::Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)
19621214::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19631214::Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
19641214::Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
19651214::"La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances
19671214::DNA created in a test tube
19691214::"La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
19691214::Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta
19691214::Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
19711214::Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
19711214::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19721214::Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
19721214::Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor
19741214::Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
19741214::Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 v India 20 fours 6 sixes
19751214::"Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances
19751214::6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
19751214::WCPR (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
19761214::Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws
19771214::"Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC
19771214::Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
19771214::Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash
19771214::Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, v England at Lahore
19771214::War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years
19781214::"Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
19781214::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19781214::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19791214::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19801214::"Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance
19801214::Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
19801214::At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
19801214::Minn Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleve Browns, winning 28-24
19801214::Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
19801214::New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
19801214::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19811214::Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)
19821214::Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
19831214::"Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances
19841214::Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
19851214::US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin
19861214::Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, Calif on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world
19871214::Allan Border scores 205 v NZ to become Australia's top rungetter
19871214::Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
19881214::CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
19881214::NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
19881214::Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
19881214::US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
19901214::Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London
19901214::Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
19911214::57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)
19911214::Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
19921214::Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him
19931214::Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
19951214::"Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
19951214::AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant
19961214::12th Soap Opera Digest Awards
19961214::62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)
19971214::"View From the Bridge," opens at Criterion Theater NYC
19971214::Diners Club Senior Golf Match
19971214::Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches
19971214::Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals
06871215::St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
11241215::Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
14881215::Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
15691215::Westmoreland flees to Scotland
15821215::Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine
15821215::Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
15861215::Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
15931215::State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
16121215::Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
16401215::Duke of Bragan‡a crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
16601215::Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
16641215::English colonizing Connecticut
16671215::Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
16801215::Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
16881215::Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]
17451215::Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
17911215::1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
17911215::Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
17921215::1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)
17941215::Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
18101215::1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
18111215::Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
18151215::Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
18201215::1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
18361215::Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
18541215::1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
18591215::GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
18631215::Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
18641215::Battle of Nashville, TN
18641215::Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA
18741215::1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
18771215::Thomas Edison patents phonograph
18911215::James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
18931215::Dvor ks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
18941215::Cricket day 2 1st T Aus v Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
18991215::Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)
19091215::Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
19141215::Battle of L¢dz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
19141215::British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
19141215::Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
19161215::French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
19171215::Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
19181215::American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
19191215::Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC
19191215::Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
19221215::IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
19251215::1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
19251215::1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
19261215::Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
19271215::Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
19291215::Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
19301215::Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)
19331215::Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
19341215::Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies
19351215::Detroit Lions win NFL championship
19351215::Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin
19361215::KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
19381215::Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
19391215::"Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
19391215::1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
19391215::Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Cura‡ao
19411215::Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
19411215::German submarine U-127 sinks
19411215::Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
19411215::North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
19411215::USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
19421215::Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
19441215::Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
19441215::Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
19441215::US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
19441215::US troops lands on Mindoro
19451215::John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
19461215::Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
19461215::Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
19481215::Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
19491215::Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris
19501215::Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
19501215::NYC's Port Authority opens
19521215::"Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
19521215::Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
19521215::KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
19521215::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
19531215::WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
19541215::Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
19541215::Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
19561215::Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
19561215::KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
19561215::WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
19591215::Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
19601215::King Boudouin of Belgium marries do€a Fabiola de Mora y Aragon
19611215::Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
19611215::Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
19611215::JFK visits Puerto Rico
19611215::L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
19621215::Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
19641215::1st time 4 people in space
19641215::American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
19641215::Canada adopts maple leaf flag
19651215::3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
19651215::Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
19651215::D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London
19651215::Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
19651215::Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
19651215::William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
19661215::"Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
19661215::Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
19661215::John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
19671215::Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
19671215::Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
19671215::Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
19691215::Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
19691215::SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
19701215::Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
19701215::S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
19701215::Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
19711215::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19731215::American Psychiatric Assn declares homosexuality is not mental illness
19731215::Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
19731215::Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
19731215::Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
19731215::Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
19731215::US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
19741215::A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
19761215::Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground
19761215::Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
19781215::Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
19781215::Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore
19791215::Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
19791215::World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
19801215::NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
19801215::Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
19801215::ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
19811215::4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
19811215::NASA launches Intelsat V
19821215::Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
19821215::Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
19821215::Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
19821215::Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
19831215::3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
19831215::Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
19831215::Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
19831215::Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC
19841215::USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
19851215::Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
19861215::150 killed during race riot in Karachi
19861215::CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
19861215::Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
19871215::"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
19881215::Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
19901215::Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
19911215::"Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
19911215::Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
19921215::Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
19921215::WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
19931215::C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
19931215::Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
19931215::John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
19931215::Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
19931215::Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
19931215::British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
19941215::"Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
19941215::John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
19941215::Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
19951215::Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
19961215::Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
19961215::Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
19961215::Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
19971215::SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
08821216::Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII
14311216::King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
15381216::King Fran‡ois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants
15771216::Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istv n B thory
16171216::Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces R¡o de la Plata (Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay)
16311216::Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
16531216::Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector
16591216::General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland
16891216::English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
17401216::Prussian Libya falls to Silezie
17611216::Russian army occupies Kolberg
17671216::Van Ritter von Glucks opera "Alceste" premiers
17731216::Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
18091216::Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate
18111216::8.0 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
18171216::Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon
18241216::Great North Holland Canal opens
18351216::Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
18381216::Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa
18571216::Earthquake in Naples, Italy
18581216::Dutch govt decides to vacate Schokland Island
18621216::Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
18641216::Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities
18771216::Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres
18801216::Republic of South-Africa forms
18841216::Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
18861216::Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over "Doleantie"
18901216::Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
18921216::Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA v NSW
18931216::Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
18971216::1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
19001216::Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony
19011216::Boer general Kritzinger captured
19031216::Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
19051216::"Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
19071216::Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Bkln Navy Yard NY)
19071216::Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
19081216::1st credit union in US forms (Manchester NH)
19091216::US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office
19121216::1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20› parcel post, issued
19121216::Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
19131216::Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
19141216::French offensive in Artois (P‚tain)
19151216::Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"
19181216::Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds
19201216::8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000ý miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die
19221216::Mutual Assn of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs) formally organizes
19221216::NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket
19241216::Noel Coward's "Vortex," premieres in London
19261216::Darius Milhauds opera "Le Pauvre Matelot," premieres in Paris
19261216::Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner
19261216::WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
19271216::Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW v South Australia
19291216::Chic Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pitts Pirates, 3-1
19301216::Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award
19311216::German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism
19321216::Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed
19331216::Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
19361216::John Monks/Fred Finklehoff's "Brother Rat," premieres in NYC
19381216::Bradman scores 143 South Aust v NSW, 11 fours 91 singles
19391216::Bradman scores 251* SA v NSW, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes
19401216::British air raid on Mannheim
19401216::Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago
19411216::Sarawak occupied by Japanese
19421216::Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia & Balkan
19431216::"Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
19441216::Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium
19441216::Gen Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie
19441216::German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
19441216::US 2nd Inf division occupies "Heartbreak Crossroads" Wahlerscheid
19451216::Cleveland Rams win NFL championship
19481216::"Lend an Ear" opens at National Theater NYC for 460 performances
19491216::Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier
19501216::"Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 perfs
19501216::Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
19531216::1st White House Press Conference (Pres Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
19531216::Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A
19561216::"Fanny" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 888 performances
19581216::Bogot  warehouse fire kills 82
19591216::Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
19601216::"Wildcat" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
19601216::TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
19611216::"Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC after 55 perfs
19621216::David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" premieres
19621216::NY Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31)
19621216::Nepal gets constitution/becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy
19641216::US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
19651216::Gemini 6 returns to Earth
19651216::Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
19651216::Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga
19661216::Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK
19661216::Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK
19671216::Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
19681216::KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI begins broadcasting
19691216::Brit House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
19691216::"War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing
19701216::1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
19701216::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19711216::Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan
19711216::Don McLean's 8+ minute version of "American Pie" released
19711216::India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders
19721216::Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
19721216::Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
19731216::O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season
19731216::US kidnap victem Paul Getty III freed
19741216::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19741216::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19751216::1st broadcast of "One Day at a Time" on CBS TV
19751216::Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn
19761216::Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
19761216::Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins
19761216::Govt halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis
19761216::Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea
19781216::Ronald Reagan denounces Pres Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR
19791216::68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0)
19791216::QB Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys
19801216::Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State
19801216::Pres-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state
19811216::Dutch Van Agt's 2nd govt falls
19821216::Tom Seaver agrees to new contract with Mets
19831216::Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding
19831216::Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
19831216::Riverside, Cal judge denies cerebral palsy victim Elizabeth Bouviato request to starve herself to death in a county hospital
19851216::Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
19871216::Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea
19881216::Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
19891216::Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)
19891216::Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia
19901216::Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected pres of Haiti
19901216::KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
19901216::Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti
19911216::Fla Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
19911216::UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
19931216::"Red Shoes" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 5 performances
19931216::Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from Beverly Hills 90210
19941216::Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI
19971216::President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, "Buddy"
02831217::St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
15261217::Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
15261217::Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
15381217::Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
15721217::Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
15871217::Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands
16381217::French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
17181217::England declares war on Spain
17281217::Congregation Shearith Israel of NY purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build NY's 1st synagogue
17451217::Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
17771217::France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
17771217::George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pa
17881217::Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Och rov
17901217::Aztec calendar stone discovered in M‚xico City
17911217::NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
17921217::Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Qu‚bec city
17981217::1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
18191217::Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain
18211217::Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
18321217::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire
18521217::1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
18601217::Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
18621217::Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
18641217::Battle of Franklin, TN
18651217::Franz Schubert's "Unvolendete" Symphony," premieres
18751217::Violent bread riots in Montr‚al
18851217::France declares Madagascar a protectorate
18871217::Georges Feydeaus' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
18921217::Tsjaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette," premieres in St Petersburg
18931217::Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
18941217::Cricket day 3 1T Aus v Eng Eng 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inn
18951217::Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
18951217::George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
19001217::1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
19001217::New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
19021217::Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist," premieres in Berlin
19031217::At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
19071217::Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
19091217::Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
19141217::Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
19141217::Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
19141217::Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
19191217::Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
19201217::AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
19201217::British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
19201217::Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
19201217::South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
19221217::Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate
19231217::Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
19241217::1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
19251217::Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
19251217::Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
19261217::German Marx govt falls due to cooperation with red army
19261217::KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
19261217::Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
19271217::Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours
19271217::US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
19271217::Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
19281217::John McGraw backs NL Pres John Heydler's designated hitter idea
19321217::Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll
19331217::B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, Eng v India at Bombay
19331217::Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
19331217::Spain's 2nd Govt of Lerroux forms
19331217::NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
19361217::Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
19381217::Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
19391217::German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
19401217::British troops occupies Sollum
19411217::Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
19411217::German submarine U-31 sunk
19411217::German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
19421217::Allies in London sentence German war criminals
19431217::Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
19441217::Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
19441217::Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
19441217::M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
19441217::US Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
19441217::US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
19461217::Bradman & Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea
19461217::US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
19471217::NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
19471217::WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
19491217::"Regina" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 86 performances
19491217::Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
19511217::Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
19531217::Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
19531217::FCC approves RCA's black & white-compatible color TV specifications
19541217::1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
19541217::WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
19571217::US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
19591217::"On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
19591217::1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
19601217::"La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 835 perfs
19601217::"Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 448 performances
19601217::Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio," premieres
19611217::Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
19611217::India seizes Goa & 2 other Portuguese colonies
19611217::Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
19621217::Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)
19621217::Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
19631217::Tsjoi Doo Sun forms govt in South Korea
19631217::West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
19651217::Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes concert
19651217::British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
19651217::David Levy begins his search for comets
19651217::Dutch govt shuts Limburgs coal mine
19651217::Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50›)
19671217::WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
19691217::50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
19691217::USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
19701217::Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
19701217::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19701217::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19711217::"Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
19711217::Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
19711217::Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
19721217::New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
19721217::WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
19731217::Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
19751217::1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
19751217::John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court
19751217::Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on Pres Ford's life
19761217::Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
19771217::Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41
19771217::Elvis Costello & The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (SNL)
19771217::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19781217::OPEC raises oil prices 18%
19781217::Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
19791217::Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
19801217::Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19801217::Mauritania provisional constitution published
19811217::Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
19831217::"Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 5 performances
19831217::Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
19831217::Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
19841217::NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton(?)
19841217::NJ Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0
19861217::US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
19861217::Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung & liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
19871217::Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Hus k resigns
19881217::77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
19881217::Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
19881217::NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
19881217::USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
19881217::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19891217::78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
19891217::Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello pres
19891217::Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA v WA)
19891217::Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
19901217::KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
19911217::Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
19911217::NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
19911217::Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
19911217::Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
19921217::"Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
19921217::Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
19931217::Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
19931217::Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
19931217::Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
19931217::Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
19941217::KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
19951217::"School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 23 perfs
11181218::Alfonso van Arag¢n occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden
13521218::Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
14061218::Anton van Bourgondi‰s becomes duke of Brabant
16031218::Admiral Steven van der Haghens fleet departs to East-Indies
16211218::English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
17191218::Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"
17741218::Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia
17771218::1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
17831218::English king George III fires govt of Portland
17871218::New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
17961218::1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
17991218::George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
18131218::British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
18321218::Charles Darwins visits Vurland
18391218::1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
18491218::William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
18581218::Passy, at Paris: 1st "Samedi soir" i/d villa of lovers Rossini
18591218::South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
18621218::Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
18651218::13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
18651218::1st US cattle importation law passed
18691218::Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
18781218::French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed
18901218::Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda
18921218::"Nutcracker Suite," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, premieres
18921218::Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres
18941218::Cricket day 4 1T Aus v Eng England following on 4-268, 7 in front
18981218::Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
18991218::Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts appointed Brit supreme commander in S Africa
19051218::H V Hordern takes 8-81 in 2nd innings of F-C debut (NSW v Qld)
19151218::Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
19171218::Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
19201218::1st US postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
19231218::International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
19301218::Bradman scores 258 NSW v South Aust, 289 mins, 37 fours
19321218::Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
19351218::Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia
19351218::Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
19361218::1st giant panda imported into US
19361218::Queensland cricket all out for 49 v Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
19361218::Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in SF
19391218::Finnish army recaptures Agl„j„rvi
19411218::German submarine U-434 sinks
19411218::Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
19441218::Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)
19441218::Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
19451218::Uruguay joins UN
19461218::TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
19471218::Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
19481218::Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election
19481218::WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19491218::Phila Eagles beat LA Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
19521218::Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleve Indians president
19531218::KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
19531218::KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
19561218::"To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
19561218::Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai
19561218::Japan admitted to UN
19561218::Phil Rizzuto signs as NY Yankee radio-TV announcer
19571218::Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
19581218::1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
19581218::1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
19581218::Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
19591218::Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
19601218::General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
19611218::Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
19611218::For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
19611218::India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
19611218::KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
19611218::Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
19621218::Dmitri Shostakovitch' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
19621218::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19621218::WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
19631218::Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
19631218::Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
19641218::"I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 199 performances
19641218::"The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink)
19641218::During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to Funeral Home
19641218::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19651218::"La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 7 performances
19651218::Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
19651218::Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
19661218::Dr Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
19661218::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19681218::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19691218::"Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 333 performances
19691218::Britain abolishes death penalty
19691218::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19701218::"Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 587 perfs
19701218::Polish uprising fails
19701218::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19711218::1st Candlelight Processional
19711218::CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
19711218::People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
19711218::US dollar devalued 7.9% in Holland ($1=Ÿ3,245)
19721218::US begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
19731218::Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
19731218::Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres
19741218::SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
19761218::"A Star is Born," with Barbra Striesand, premieres
19761218::"Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
19761218::Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
19771218::Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
19771218::Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
19781218::France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
19781218::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19791218::Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
19801218::Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Sq Garden
19801218::Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
19801218::IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
19801218::Vietnam adopts constitution
19821218::Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
19831218::NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
19841218::73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)
19851218::"Jerry's Girls" opens at St James Theater NYC for 139 performances
19851218::UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
19861218::Mr Gates, serves as acting director of CIA
19871218::Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari
19871218::Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
19881218::5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
19881218::Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
19891218::"I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
19891218::Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa," premieres in NYC
19901218::NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
19901218::NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Wash DC as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
19911218::DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
19911218::General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
19921218::FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
19931218::Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
19941218::"Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 8 performances
19941218::"What's Wrong With this Pic?" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 12 perf
19941218::Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
19941218::General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro & Jack Wagner wed
19941218::Norman, Couples & Azinger wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Golf Challenge
19941218::Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
19961218::Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe & England
19961218::TV industry execs agree to adopt a ratings system
04011219::St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
10551219::Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
11541219::King Henry II of England crowned
15511219::Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
15621219::Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Cond‚ captured
16861219::Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
16881219::King James II's wife & son flee to France
16961219::Jean-Fran‡ois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris
17321219::Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
17761219::Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
17771219::Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
17831219::English govt of Pitt Jr forms
17881219::Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
17951219::1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
18231219::Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
18281219::South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
18351219::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches NZ
18421219::US recognizes independence of Hawaii
18431219::Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
18541219::Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
18591219::Grading started for Market Street RR
18611219::Battle of Black Water
18621219::Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
18671219::Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
18711219::Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
18811219::Opera "H‚rodiade" is produced (Brussels)
18841219::Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
18871219::Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
18881219::Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
18891219::Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
18901219::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
18911219::1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
18911219::Canadian Rugby Union forms
18941219::Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113
19031219::Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
19041219::Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
19071219::239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
19071219::Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
19101219::1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
19101219::Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
19131219::Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title
19161219::Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
19171219::1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
19171219::Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
19181219::Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
19191219::American Meteorological Society found
19201219::1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
19221219::Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
19241219::Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings
19281219::1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
19301219::James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
19311219::Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG
19311219::Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
19321219::British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
19331219::Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
19341219::Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
19391219::Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
19411219::German submarine U-574 sinks
19411219::Hitler takes complete command of German Army
19411219::US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
19431219::Military coup in Bolivia
19451219::Austrian Republic re-establishes
19451219::Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris
19461219::Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860," premieres in London
19461219::War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
19481219::2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
19481219::8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
19481219::Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
19481219::Phila Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
19491219::Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland
19491219::WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
19501219::Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
19501219::Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
19511219::Nazi General Christiansen leaves Nethe
19521219::Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
19531219::KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
19551219::Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
19571219::"Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
19581219::1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
19591219::1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
19601219::Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die)
19601219::Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
19601219::Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
19611219::British govt begins decimal coin system
19611219::Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization
19621219::Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
19621219::Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
19621219::Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
19631219::Zanzibar becomes independent from UK
19651219::French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
19681219::WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19691219::Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
19711219::"Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances
19711219::CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons)
19711219::NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
19711219::Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
19721219::Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
19731219::"Molly" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
19731219::Grenada adopts constitution
19741219::"Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
19741219::Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
19741219::Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
19751219::John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
19751219::Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
19761219::Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ
19761219::John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi
19761219::Pres Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order
19761219::Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
19771219::Dutch govt of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
19781219::France performs nuclear test
19781219::Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
19801219::Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
19801219::Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
19801219::Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
19841219::China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang & Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
19841219::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19841219::Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
19841219::Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
19841219::UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
19841219::Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
19851219::"Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 perfs
19851219::Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
19851219::STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
19861219::USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
19861219::Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers &  accuses owners of collusion against free agency
19861219::Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500
19871219::Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
19871219::Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ
19881219::NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
19881219::Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
19881219::Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
19891219::American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
19891219::Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
19911219::"Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 perfs
19911219::6,000th episode of One Life To Live
19911219::Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
19911219::NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
19931219::"Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances
19931219::Guinee general Lansana re-elected president
19951219::Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
19961219::"Once Upon a Matress," opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
19971219::MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy
00691220::General Vespasianus occupies Rome
10461220::Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI,
10461220::Benedictus IX & Silvester III & names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II
11921220::Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
14481220::Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
15851220::English fleet & earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen
16001220::Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
16061220::Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
16261220::Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch G bor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg
16611220::Corporation Act enforced in England
16691220::1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
16881220::Prince Willem III's troops pull into London
16941220::Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
16991220::Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
17451220::Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk
17801220::England declares war on Netherlands
17901220::1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
18031220::Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
18201220::Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
18231220::Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
18301220::England, France, Prussia, Austria & Russia recognize Belgium
18501220::Hawaiian post office established
18601220::SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
18611220::Battle of Dranesville, VA
18621220::-Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
18621220::-Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
18621220::Battle of Holly Spring, MS
18621220::Brig-gen Nathan B Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
18641220::-Dec 27th] Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
18651220::De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
18791220::Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
18801220::Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
18801220::NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
18831220::Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
18911220::Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
18921220::Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
18921220::Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
18931220::1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
18941220::Day Six 1T Aus v Eng Australia need 177 to win, all out 166
18941220::England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket
19001220::Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
19061220::Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
19071220::Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
19121220::J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in NYC
19121220::Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite … Marie," premieres in Paris
19151220::Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
19171220::Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
19181220::Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in NYC
19191220::Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
19191220::US House of Representatives restricts immigration
19201220::Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
19201220::Bob Hope became an American citizen
19211220::AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
19221220::14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
19221220::Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
19241220::Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
19261220::Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring
19261220::Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
19261220::Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in NYC
19281220::1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montr‚al, QuŠ
19281220::Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC
19291220::Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
19291220::Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
19301220::Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
19321220::Queensland all out 74 v Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
19331220::Bolivia & Paraguay sign weapon cease fire
19351220::Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
19371220::Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
19381220::Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
19391220::Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
19401220::Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
19411220::Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miqu‚lon
19411220::Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
19421220::1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
19431220::"International" is no longer USSR National Anthem
19441220::Archbishop De Young & bishop Huibers condemn black market
19441220::Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
19441220::Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
19441220::Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London
19451220::Rationg of auto tires ends in US
19461220::Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
19481220::Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
19491220::Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty & the Beast," premieres
19501220::"Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY
19521220::KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19531220::KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
19531220::KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
19561220::Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
19561220::Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
19571220::Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service
19591220::Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur
19601220::Auschwitz-commandant Richard B„r arrested in German FR
19621220::D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
19621220::Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
19631220::Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
19631220::Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville
19631220::Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
19641220::Levi Eshkol forms Israeli govt
19661220::Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established
19661220::NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
19661220::Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
19661220::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19671220::"Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft, premieres
19671220::474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
19671220::Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
19691220::Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
19701220::Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
19711220::Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
19721220::Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in NYC
19731220::AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
19731220::Dutch Antillean govt of Evertsz forms
19731220::Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
19741220::Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
19741220::George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
19751220::Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
19751220::Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
19761220::"Music Is" opens at St James Theater NYC for 8 performances
19761220::Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
19771220::1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
19771220::RAF -terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
19781220::H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
19801220::NBC broadcasts NY Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
19801220::USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
19811220::"Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1522 performances
19811220::Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) & most turnovers (10)
19811220::Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
19811220::Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in NYC
19831220::El Salvador adopts constitution
19831220::Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
19831220::NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
19831220::PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
19841220::33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
19841220::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19851220::Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
19851220::Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
19851220::Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
19861220::White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY
19871220::"Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
19871220::76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
19871220::Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
19871220::Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
19881220::Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
19881220::NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
19881220::Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka
19891220::Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
19891220::US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
19901220::Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
19901220::Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
19901220::Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
19911220::NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
19911220::Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
19921220::Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
19921220::Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia
19931220::Donald Trump weds Marla Maples
19951220::"Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 14 performances
19951220::American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
19981220::Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge
19991220::Portugal returns Macau to China
11631221::Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
15611221::Archbishop Granvelle installed
15821221::Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
16201221::103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock [OS=Dec 11]
16501221::Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
16881221::Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
17621221::James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
17841221::John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
17881221::Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
18291221::1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
18351221::HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
18491221::1st US skating club formed (Phila)
18641221::Gen Sherman conquers Savannah
18661221::Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
18901221::Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
18911221::18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
18981221::Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
19001221::Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
19071221::Dutch govt of De Master falls due to war budget
19091221::1st junior high school established (Berkeley Calif)
19091221::Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in NYC
19091221::U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
19101221::Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
19121221::Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
19131221::1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
19141221::"Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts
19141221::1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand & Charles Chaplin)
19151221::10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
19181221::Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
19191221::J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
19201221::Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in NYC
19211221::Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
19231221::Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
19251221::Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
19251221::Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against NZ
19261221::Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
19291221::1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
19321221::Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
19321221::Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
19331221::Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania
19331221::Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
19331221::Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
19361221::Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80
19371221::1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
19371221::O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW v South Aust
19391221::Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
19411221::Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
19411221::Chicago bears win the NFL championship
19411221::David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
19411221::German submarine U-567 sinks
19411221::Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
19421221::US Supreme court declares Nevada separation legal
19441221::Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP
19451221::"Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances
19451221::Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in NYC
19461221::"If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances
19461221::Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
19461221::Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres
19461221::Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis
19481221::O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
19481221::State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
19491221::Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
19501221::"Out of This World" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 157 perfs
19501221::Cole Porter's musical "Out of this World," premieres in NYC
19511221::Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
19521221::Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
19521221::WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
19531221::KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
19541221::Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
19571221::Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
19581221::Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France
19591221::10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
19591221::Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
19591221::Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
19591221::Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
19611221::Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
19611221::JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda
19621221::Angolin leaves Comecon
19621221::US & Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
19661221::USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
19681221::Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
19681221::David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash premiere together in Calif
19691221::Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
19691221::Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
19701221::WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
19711221::UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
19721221::Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
19731221::Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
19751221::"Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances
19751221::"Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
19751221::1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
19751221::64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
19751221::Madagascar adopts constitution
19751221::Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
19761221::20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
19761221::Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
19761221::UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
19761221::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19781221::"Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC
19781221::Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy Jr for murder
19791221::Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
19791221::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19791221::Zimbabwe adopts constitution
19801221::Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
19811221::Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
19831221::"Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 669 performances
19831221::Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
19831221::Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in NYC
19831221::NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
19831221::NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
19841221::Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
19841221::USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
19851221::ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
19851221::Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
19851221::Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
19861221::75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
19861221::Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
19871221::3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
19871221::Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
19871221::Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
19881221::Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
19881221::NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
19881221::Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
19891221::Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
19891221::VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
19901221::Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
19911221::95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
19911221::El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
19911221::US actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner
19911221::Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
19921221::Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
19941221::Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC
19951221::Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
19951221::SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
19961221::Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
19971221::Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
19971221::Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
19971221::Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
19971221::Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
19971221::Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge
04011222::St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
07951222::Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
11351222::Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
12161222::Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
14651222::Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
15361222::English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
15961222::Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
16421222::Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
16881222::Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
16891222::Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
17151222::English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
17311222::Dutch people revolt against meat tax
17721222::Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
17751222::Continental navy organized with 7 ships
17831222::Washington resigns his military commission [or 1223?]
17901222::Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
18071222::Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
18101222::British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
18151222::Spaniards execute M‚xican revolutionary priest Jos‚ Maria Morelos
18321222::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
18621222::-Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
18701222::Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
18771222::"American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
18821222::1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
18831222::August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
18851222::Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
18861222::1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
18881222::Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
18941222::-23] Dutch coast hit by hurricane
18941222::Debussy's "Pr‚lude … l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
18941222::United States Golf Association forms (NYC)
18941222::French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
19071222::Saint-Sa‰ns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg
19101222::US postal savings stamps 1st issued
19151222::Federal Baseball League disolved
19151222::Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
19171222::Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
19191222::Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
19191222::US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
19221222::Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
19231222::Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
19241222::Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
19241222::Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in NYC
19301222::6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
19341222::1st flight from Netherland to Cura‡ao (Christmas flight 1934)
19341222::Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
19351222::Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
19361222::1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
19371222::Lincoln Tunnel (NYC) opens to traffic
19391222::125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
19391222::Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 v Queensland
19391222::Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
19391222::99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
19411222::Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
19411222::Premier Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, DC
19411222::Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
19411222::Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
19431222::Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
19431222::WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
19441222::Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
19441222::Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
19451222::Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
19461222::"Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
19461222::Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
19471222::Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
19481222::KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19501222::2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
19511222::Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide
19521222::French govt of Pinay, resigns
19521222::WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
19531222::Jack Dunn III, owner of Balt Orioles in Intl League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns
19561222::"New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
19561222::Last British/French troops leave Egypt
19571222::KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
19581222::"Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
19581222::"Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
19581222::2nd Dutch Beel govt forms
19591222::Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft Worth
19591222::NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
19611222::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19621222::1,000,000th NBA point scored
19621222::Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
19621222::Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
19621222::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19631222::Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
19631222::Official 30-day mourning period for Pres John F Kennedy ends
19641222::Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
19651222::Belgian govt shuts 6 coal mine
19651222::Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago," premieres
19651222::Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
19651222::Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
19661222::WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
19681222::Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
19691222::Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
19701222::Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
19711222::KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
19711222::UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General
19711222::USSR performs underground nuclear test
19721222::6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
19741222::2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approx April 1975
19741222::Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
19741222::Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
19761222::"Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 perfs
19761222::35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
19761222::German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen
19771222::36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
19781222::Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
19781222::Thailand adopts constitution
19801222::Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
19801222::Pres-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) & James Watt (Interior)
19811222::Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
19811222::Belgium's 5th govt of Martens forms
19821222::William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in NYC
19831222::Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
19831222::Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
19841222::Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on NYC subway train
19841222::Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
19841222::Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, v WI at the MCG
19851222::"Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 perfs
19851222::74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
19851222::STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
19861222::India score 7-676 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
19871222::M”tley Cre's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
19881222::2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
19881222::South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
19881222::Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
19891222::After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
19891222::Chad adopts its Constitution
19891222::Cold wave: -4øF in Oklahoma City, -6øF in Tulsa, -12øF in Pitts,
19891222::-18øF in Denver, -23øF in KC Mo, -42øF in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47øF in Hardin Mont & -60øF in Black Hills South Dakota
19901222::Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
19901222::Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
19901222::Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
19921222::Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
19941222::"Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 perfs
19941222::Italian govt of Berlusconi resigns
19951222::David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with NY Yankees
19961222::Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
19961222::Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
19961222::Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with Eng need 1 to win
19971222::Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
19971222::Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
19971222::Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
06191223::Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
14821223::Peace of Atrecht
15691223::St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
16201223::French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
16721223::Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
16881223::English king Jacob II flees to France
16901223::John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
17151223::Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund
17241223::Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Aust Neth
17281223::Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin
17511223::France sets plan to tax clergymen
17761223::Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
17761223::Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
17791223::Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
17831223::Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
17881223::Maryland votes to cede a 10ý mile area for Dist of Columbia
17931223::Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
18231223::"Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
18321223::Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
18341223::Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
18521223::1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
18621223::Union Gen Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw & common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
18671223::1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
18761223::Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
18881223::Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
18931223::Opera "H„nsel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
18941223::Debussy's ballet "L'apr‚s-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris
18991223::Fieldmarshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa
18991223::Southampton: field marshal lord Roberts departures to South Africa
18991223::Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway
19071223::1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
19091223::Albert becomes king of Belgians
19111223::Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich
19111223::Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
19121223::1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
19121223::Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
19131223::President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
19151223::J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in NYC
19171223::3 British warships come close to Holland
19191223::1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
19191223::Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
19201223::Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
19201223::King George V signs Home Rule Act
19221223::BBC Radio began daily newscasts
19221223::Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
19231223::Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
19251223::Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
19261223::KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
19281223::NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
19301223::Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
19301223::Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
19331223::Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
19331223::Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
19331223::Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
19381223::Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz"
19391223::Finnish counter offensive at Summa
19391223::South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
19401223::John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in NYC
19411223::American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
19411223::British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
19411223::Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
19421223::Allies air attack on Den Helder
19431223::1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
19431223::Gen Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
19441223::Beginning of harsh winter
19451223::Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London
19451223::Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
19461223::Belgian Council of State forms
19461223::Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
19461223::U of Tenn refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
19471223::Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain & Shockley in Bell Labs
19511223::Last Belgian communities get electricity
19511223::1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) LA Rams beat Cleve Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
19531223::Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
19571223::Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson v S Africa
19581223::"Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 38 perfs
19581223::Abdallah Ibrahim forms govt of Morocco
19601223::De Quay's Dutch govt falls
19601223::King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
19611223::KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
19611223::Train accident in Italy, 70 die
19611223::Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies
19621223::Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
19621223::Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
19631223::Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
19631223::Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
19641223::India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
19661223::Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
19671223::Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy
19681223::1st US case of space motion sickness
19681223::82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea
19681223::Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
19681223::North Korea releases Pueblo crew
19701223::7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
19701223::French author R‚gis Debray freed in Bolivia
19701223::NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
19701223::USSR performs nuclear test
19721223::16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
19721223::6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
19721223::Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi
19721223::Islanders end 15 games winless streak
19721223::"Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
19731223::"Young & Restless" premieres on TV
19731223::6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
19731223::French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
19741223::"Good News" opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances
19741223::Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen
19751223::Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
19751223::Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith & Dave McNally free agents
19781223::Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against NY Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
19791223::NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
19791223::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19801223::Sam Shepard's "True West," premieres in NYC
19811223::Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033
19831223::Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
19841223::Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
19861223::Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
19871223::Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of Pres Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
19901223::"Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 284 perfs
19901223::Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
19911223::NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
19941223::Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
19961223::4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
19971223::Chic Bull coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682 games)
19971223::Colo Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
19971223::Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Okla bombing
19971223::US Agriculture Dept estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
19971223::Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow
06401224::John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
10461224::Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected
12941224::Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII
14761224::400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy
15151224::Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
15651224::Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition
15681224::Uprising of Morisco's in Granada
15931224::Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
16511224::John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope
17151224::Swedish troops occupy Norway
17241224::Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
17981224::Russia & England sign Second anti-French Coalition
17991224::Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered
18141224::Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
18181224::"Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
18181224::Franz Xaver Gruber composes "Silent Night"
18321224::1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Ga
18321224::HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
18511224::Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
18511224::US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
18601224::Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in NYC
18641224::Battle of Gordonsville, VA
18651224::Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
18711224::Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
18741224::Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
18841224::Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
18891224::Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
18931224::Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
18941224::Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
18941224::Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
18981224::Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam
19001224::Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
19041224::German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
19061224::Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
19101224::Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
19121224::Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
19141224::German plane drops bombs on Dover England
19201224::Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
19221224::BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"
19221224::London Coloseum opens
19241224::1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
19241224::Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
19241224::Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th NYC
19241224::School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
19271224::Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af
19281224::George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St NYC
19301224::Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
19301224::F Garc¡a Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
19321224::Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
19331224::Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
19341224::Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430
19351224::Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six
19351224::National Council of Negro Women forms
19361224::1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
19371224::Dutch govt recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
19411224::1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
19421224::1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemnde, Germany
19421224::Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
19431224::FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
19431224::Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London
19461224::4th French republic established
19461224::US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazi's" amnesty
19481224::1st US house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Mass)
19481224::Greek govt disbands due to state of war, press censorship
19501224::Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28
19511224::1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
19511224::United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
19531224::2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
19531224::KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
19531224::KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
19531224::Ren‚ Coty elected pres of France
19531224::Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
19541224::Council for the Children Protection forms in Neth
19541224::Laos gains its independence
19561224::"I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
19561224::Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
19601224::Dutch bishops question papacy values
19611224::Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
19621224::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19631224::Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
19641224::Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
19661224::"Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 perfs
19661224::Luna 13 lands on Moon
19661224::USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
19671224::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19671224::Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
19681224::Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
19681224::WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
19701224::9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
19701224::Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
19711224::Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
19731224::Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
19741224::Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
19791224::1st Ariane-rocket launched
19801224::Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
19811224::Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry
19811224::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19821224::Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
19841224::Palace coup in Mauritania
19861224::French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
19861224::Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
19891224::Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
19891224::Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
19901224::Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
19901224::Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
19911224::Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
19921224::Pres Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger of Iran-contra affair
19941224::4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
19971224::1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
00011225::1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
03371225::Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
03521225::1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
03901225::Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica
04981225::French king Clovis baptises himself
05971225::England adopts Julian calendar
06041225::Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers
07951225::Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
08001225::Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor
08751225::Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
09671225::John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor
09691225::Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
09791225::Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom
09991225::Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne
10001225::Monarch Istv n crowned king of Hungary
10461225::Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III RC-German emperor
10481225::Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
10661225::William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
11001225::Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
11011225::Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
11211225::Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
11301225::Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of Sicily
12231225::St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
14921225::Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
15221225::Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
15821225::Zealand/Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th
16131225::Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
16211225::Gov William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas
16401225::Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
16411225::Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden & France
16511225::Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
16831225::English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
16881225::English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
16881225::Lord Delamere sides with King James II
17171225::Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed
17411225::Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale
17451225::Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden
17451225::Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
17581225::Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
17601225::Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
17751225::Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
17761225::Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
18181225::1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
18181225::Handel's Messiah, US premieres in Boston
18301225::Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres
18311225::Louisiana & Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
18321225::Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas in St Martin at Cape Receiver
18331225::Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia
18341225::Charles Darwins celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile
18351225::Charles Darwins company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand
18371225::Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
18431225::1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
18481225::New Haven Railroad opens
18621225::40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
18681225::Despite bitter opposition, Pres A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
18751225::Lambs Club in NY forms
18881225::1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
18941225::1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, U of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, CA in football
18961225::"Stars & Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
18991225::Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade
19001225::Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
19011225::Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits
19021225::Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes," premieres in NYC
19051225::V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste," premieres in NYC
19081225::Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns & becomes 1st black heavyweight champ
19111225::Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in NYC
19141225::Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits & Germans)
19151225::Irving Berlin & Harry B Smith's musical premieres in NYC
19171225::"Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in NYC
19171225::Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up," premieres in NYC
19221225::-Dec 26] Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
19231225::Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St NYC
19261225::Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
19281225::Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic v NSW) 14,887
19281225::NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
19291225::Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
19301225::1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
19301225::Mt Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, NY opens
19301225::Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
19301225::Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
19311225::Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,697
19311225::Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria v Tas at Hobart
19311225::NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
19321225::During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes
19331225::Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
19331225::Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
19331225::Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria v Tasmania at Hobart
19341225::Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 v Qld before 6,180
19341225::Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth," premieres in NYC
19361225::Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
19361225::Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA v Queensland before 4,865
19371225::Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
19371225::Queensland all out for 93 v SA in front of 10,436
19381225::George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
19391225::Grimmett & Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
19391225::Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
19401225::Bradman out 1st ball for SA v Victoria before 6213
19401225::Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey," premieres in NYC
19411225::Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
19411225::Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
19421225::Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
19421225::British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
19421225::Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
19461225::Constitution accepted in Taiwan
19471225::Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
19501225::Cleve Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
19501225::Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
19501225::Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey & smuggled back to Scotland
19511225::1st Christmas Day in Test Crickets, Aust v WI at Adelaide
19511225::West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket
19531225::Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
19541225::WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
19551225::Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
19551225::Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music
19571225::Ed Gein found insane of murder
19581225::Alan Freed's Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular opens
19591225::A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
19591225::Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set
19591225::Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
19621225::USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
19631225::Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
19641225::"Goldfinger" premieres in US
19641225::George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans
19671225::Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged
19681225::Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
19691225::5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
19691225::India all out for 163 at Madras v Aust, Ashley Mallett 5-91
19711225::Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
19711225::Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
19711225::Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
19721225::England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi
19731225::Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
19741225::Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
19761225::Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
19761225::Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
19771225::Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets Egyptian Pres Sadat in Egypt
19791225::Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 v Pakistan at Kanpur
19791225::USSR airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
19821225::Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians
19831225::1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
19841225::NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
19871225::Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
19891225::Japanese scientist achieve -271.8øC, coldest temp ever recorded
19901225::"Godfather III" premieres
19911225::Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
19911225::Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as Pres of USSR
19941225::"Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 8 perfs
19971225::For 1st time US movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
19971225::Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show
02681226::St Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
04181226::St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
07951226::St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
11981226::French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
14811226::Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht
14921226::1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
15681226::Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada
16201226::Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
16591226::Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
17481226::France & Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
17731226::Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
17761226::Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
17761226::George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton
17991226::George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen"
18051226::France & Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
18051226::Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
18091226::English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
18131226::Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
18251226::Erie Canal opens
18301226::Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan
18311226::Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
18481226::1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
18481226::William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
18541226::Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
18601226::Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
18601226::Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft Sumter
18621226::-Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA
18621226::1st US navy hospital ship enters service
18621226::38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising
18651226::James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
18721226::4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
18771226::Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention
18781226::1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
18791226::John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres
18901226::King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
18921226::Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
18991226::Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
19021226::Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
19081226::Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
19161226::Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
19171226::1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
19171226::Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
19181226::1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
19191226::Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
19241226::Judy Garland, 2«, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut
19251226::1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
19251226::NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
19251226::Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
19251226::NY's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70
19261226::Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
19281226::Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
19281226::World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW v Vic
19311226::George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in NYC
19311226::Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
19311226::SS-Sturmbannfhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten
19321226::Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
19331226::Bradman scores 187* NSW v Victoria, 294 mins, 13 fours
19331226::US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
19341226::Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
19351226::Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
19361226::Israel Philarmonic Orch forms
19381226::Bradman scores 225 South Aust v Qld before Christ gets him out
19381226::Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England v South Africa
19391226::Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
19391226::Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
19401226::1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
19401226::JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in NYC
19411226::Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
19431226::British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
19431226::Chicago Bears win NFL championship
19431226::Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
19441226::Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
19441226::Budapest surrounded by soviet army
19441226::Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago
19461226::"Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 111 performances
19461226::"Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater NYC for 60 perfs
19461226::35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
19461226::Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
19471226::"Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater NYC for 34 performances
19471226::British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
19471226::Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84ø F
19481226::Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
19501226::Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
19541226::"The Shadow," airs for last time on radio
19541226::Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10
19551226::Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating LA 38-14
19551226::RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
19571226::Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
19601226::"Do Re Mi" opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
19601226::Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in NYC
19601226::Phila Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
19631226::"Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
19631226::Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
19631226::US furnishes cereal to USSR
19641226::Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
19641226::Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
19641226::Moors Murderers claim last victim
19651226::"Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
19651226::Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
19651226::Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
19661226::Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
19671226::BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
19671226::Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
19681226::Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
19681226::Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in NYC
19681226::Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge
19681226::Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's MSG
19731226::"Exorcist," starring Linda Blair & rated X, premieres
19731226::2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
19731226::Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
19741226::Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
19751226::1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
19751226::A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket
19761226::"Music Is" closes at St James Theater NYC after 8 performances
19771226::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19781226::India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
19811226::One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Aust v WI
19821226::TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
19821226::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19831226::Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, v Pakistan MCG
19831226::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19841226::Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este
19851226::Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, v India at the MCG
19861226::Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
19861226::Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
19861226::TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
19871226::"Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
19881226::"Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
19881226::Anti African student rebellion in China PR
19891226::ODI debut for Mark Taylor & Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
19901226::Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
19901226::Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
19901226::Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
19911226::Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
19911226::Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
19911226::Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
19911226::NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with « second left
19921226::NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
19931226::Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
19931226::Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)
19931226::Floyd, Nicklaus & Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn
19941226::Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)
19941226::French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
19941226::Pres « brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
19951226::Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL v Aust, MCG)
19951226::Paul Adams becomes S Afr's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 yrs 340 ds
04181227::[Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
05371227::St Sofia-church in Constantinople, initiated
14371227::Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Bohemia
15031227::Battle at Garigliano] Spanish army under G C¢rdoba beats France
15211227::"Zwickauer profeten" appear in Wittenberg
16791227::Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java
17031227::England & Portugal sign Methuen-Asiento-trade agreement
17411227::Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
18251227::1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
18311227::Darwin begins his voyage on board HMS Beagle
18311227::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America
18361227::Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
18451227::Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga
18501227::Hawaiian Fire Dept established
18621227::Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
18621227::Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
18671227::Ontario & Qu‚bec legislatures hold 1st meeting
18711227::World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
18841227::Netherlands recognizes king Leopold II's Congo Free State
18871227::Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
18921227::Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
18921227::N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
18971227::Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals, 15-2
19001227::Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
19031227::"Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
19041227::Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)
19041227::W B Yeats/Lady Gregory's "On Baile's Strand," premieres in Dublin
19051227::M A Noble scores 281 (369 mins, 21 fours) NSW v Victoria
19061227::1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
19191227::Red Sox owner Harry Frazee announces they will deal any player except Harry Hooper, Hooper is sent to the White Sox after 1920 season
19231227::Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan
19261227::Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square
19261227::Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I
19271227::Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in NYC
19271227::Philip Barry's "Paris Bound," premieres in NYC
19271227::Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
19321227::Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC)
19341227::1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)
19341227::Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran
19341227::Vernon Duke & James Hanley's musical premieres in NYC
19371227::Bradman scores 246 SA v Queensland, 364 mins, 20 fours
19371227::German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany
19371227::Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio
19391227::1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
19391227::Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
19391227::Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die
19411227::Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
19411227::Siberia: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 7th Symphony
19421227::1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
19421227::NFL Pro Bowl: NFL All-Stars beats Washington 17-14
19431227::France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese govt
19431227::German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
19431227::Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith
19441227::Greece: British premier Churchill flies back to London
19451227::Arthur Laurent's "Home of the Brave," premieres in NYC
19451227::International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
19471227::1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
19491227::Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia
19491227::United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
19511227::40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)
19531227::Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game
19541227::"Saint of Bleecker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 perfs
19541227::Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Saint," premieres in NYC
19561227::45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0)
19561227::Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games
19591227::Balt Colts beat NY Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game
19601227::France performs nuclear test
19611227::"Subways Are for Sleeping" opens at St James Theater NYC for 205 perfs
19611227::Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
19611227::Styne/Comden/Green's musical "Subways are for Sleeping," premieres
19621227::28th Heisman Trophy Award: Terry Baker, Oregon State (QB)
19641227::Cleveland Browns beat Balt Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game
19661227::"At the Drop of Another Hat" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 105 perfs
19681227::Apollo 8 returns to Earth
19681227::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19701227::"Hello, Dolly!" closes at St James Theater NYC after 2844 performances
19721227::"Purlie" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 14 performances
19721227::Belgium recognizes German DR
19721227::LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
19721227::New North Korean constitution comes into effect
19731227::LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
19741227::40th Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)
19741227::Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
19741227::FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
19741227::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19751227::Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
19761227::Albania constitution goes into effect
19781227::King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
19791227::"Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV
19791227::Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at MSG
19791227::Soviet troops invade Afgh nist n, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown
19801227::Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
19811227::Lillee becomes the leading wicket-taker in Test Crickets with 310
19811227::Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest NHLer to get 100 pts (38th game)
19811227::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19821227::Imran Khan 8-60 to bring innings victory v India at Karachi
19831227::Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
19831227::Propane gas fire devastated 16ý blocks of Buffalo
19841227::Padres' free agent pitcher Ed Whitson signs with NY Yankees
19851227::Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
19861227::"Les Miserables" opens at Kennedy Center, Wash DC
19861227::10th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Young & Restless wins
19871227::Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass
19871227::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19881227::Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
19891227::Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
19911227::"Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV
19911227::Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
19911227::Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
19921227::"3 From Brooklyn" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 45 perfs
19921227::"Les Miserables" opens at Ostregaswerks, Copenhagen
19921227::"Tommy Tune Tonite! Song & Dance Act" opens at Gershwin NYC for 10 per
19921227::13th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
19921227::Harry Connick Jr is caught with 9mm gun in NY's JFK airport
19921227::Nancy Sheehan wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament
19931227::"Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 7 perfs
19931227::Actress Teri Garr (44) weds John O'Neil (42)
19931227::Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93
19951227::Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 v SL, MCG)
19961227::Carquest Bowl 7: Miami beats Virginia, 31-21
04181228::St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
08011228::Louis the Vrome occupies Barcelona
10651228::Westminister Abbey opens in London
16141228::Sperm whale beached at Noordwijk
17321228::1st known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette)
18161228::American Colonization Society organizes
18211228::Naples: Gioacchini Rossini moves to Bologna
18281228::6.8 earthquake strikes Echigo Japan, 30,000 killed
18321228::John Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with Pres Jackson)
18361228::Spain recognizes independence of Mexico
18461228::Iowa becomes 29th state
18491228::M Jolly-Bellin discovers dry-cleaning, he accidentally upset lamp containing turpentine & oil on his clothing & sees cleaning effect
18501228::Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire
18641228::Battle of Egypt Station, MS
18691228::William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
18771228::John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill
18781228::Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
18791228::North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
18871228::Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
18931228::French lieutenant Boiteux annexes Tumbuktu
18951228::World's 1st movie theater opens in Paris
18971228::Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac," premieres in Paris
19021228::1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (MSG, NYC)
19021228::Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
19031228::Clyde Fitch's "Glad of It," premieres in NYC
19031228::Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
19041228::1st daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
19051228::Intercollegiate Athletic Assn of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
19051228::NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings & 253
19061228::Ecuador adopts its constitution
19081228::Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
19081228::Messina, Italy struck by an earthquake (nearly 80,000 died)
19101228::Opera "K”nigskinder" is produced (NYC)
19121228::National Council of Young Israel convenes
19121228::SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
19151228::SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
19231228::George Bernard Shaw's "St Joan," premieres in NYC
19251228::George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Tip-Toes," premieres in NYC
19261228::Arthur Mailey takes 4-362 off 64 overs (no maidens) NSW v Vic
19261228::Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
19261228::Ponsford scores 352 & Ryder 295 against NSW
19261228::Victoria all out for 1107 against NSW at the MCG Crowd 22,348
19271228::George Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Royal Family," premieres in NYC
19281228::Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made
19281228::Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"
19311228::Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
19351228::W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
19371228::Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
19381228::Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
19401228::Arthur Morris scores 111 in 2nd innings of 1st game after 148
19411228::State of siege goes into effect in Bohemia/Moravia
19421228::Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
19421228::Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
19431228::All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed
19441228::Eisenhower & Montgomery meet in Hasselt Belgium
19441228::Former Wash 3rd baseman Buddy Lewis wins Distinguished Flying Cross
19441228::Leonard Bernstein's musical "On the Town," premieres in NYC
19451228::Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
19471228::Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
19481228::IDF crosses Egyptian border
19481228::Middel-Java as a whole in Dutch hands
19481228::US announced a study to launch an Earth satellite
19491228::20th Century Fox announces it would produce TV programs
19501228::Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
19521228::Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
19531228::WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
19541228::43rd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
19541228::KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
19551228::44th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (5-0)
19561228::Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
19571228::CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
19571228::USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
19581228::Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon & Theodore with David Seville) hit #1
19581228::What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
19611228::Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana," premieres in NYC
19621228::UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
19631228::"Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater NYC after 4 performances
19631228::"Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 82 performances
19631228::Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song"
19641228::Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin
19641228::Principal filming of "Dr Zhivago," begins
19661228::13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
19661228::China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
19671228::KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
19671228::Muriel Siebert is 1st women to own a seat on NY Stock Exchange
19681228::100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
19681228::57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
19681228::Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
19681228::Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
19681228::KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
19691228::Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in NYC
19691228::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19691228::Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
19701228::"Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" opens at Majestic NYC for 19 perfs
19701228::Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
19711228::Hasj falls from now on under(neath) the Opiumwet
19721228::Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea
19721228::Martin Bormanns skeleton found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
19721228::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19731228::Akron Ohio's Chamber of Commerce terminates itself from Soap Box Derby
19731228::Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
19731228::Comet Kohoutek at perihelion
19741228::6.3 earthquake strikes Pakistan: 5200 killed
19751228::"Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
19751228::1st broadcast of radio Hilversum IV (classic music)
19751228::Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
19751228::Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut
19751228::Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at MSG
19761228::"Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 167 perfs
19761228::Genie Francis joind "General Hospital" as Laura Vining
19761228::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19761228::Winnie Mandela banished in South Africa
19781228::30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
19801228::Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
19811228::Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
19811228::Warner-Elektra-Atlantic raises price of 45 records from $1.68 to $1.98
19831228::72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
19831228::Gavaskar achieves his 30th century, beating Bradman's 29
19831228::US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984
19831228::Warren Cromartie signs 3 year $2.5M contract with Yomiuri Giants
19841228::Creosote bush determined to be 11,700 years old
19841228::Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins election in India
19841228::TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
19841228::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19851228::US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
19851228::Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
19861228::Pat Davis, ranked 412th among world tennis competitors wins Davis Cup
19871228::In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark
19881228::John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
19881228::US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
19881228::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19891228::Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
19891228::Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
19901228::2 die in a NYC subway accident
19901228::Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
19911228::8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
19911228::Blockbuster Bowl 2: Alabama beats Colorado, 30-25
19911228::Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
19911228::Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
19911228::Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
19931228::Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
19931228::Dutch Antilles govt of Yandi Paula forms
19931228::John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts)
19941228::Billy Ray Cyrus (Achy Breaky Heart) weds Leticia Finley
19941228::Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 v Eng, MCG)
19941228::Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection
19961228::India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning
19971228::Sting beats Hollywood Hogan for WCW Championship
15031229::Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France
15391229::St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
15411229::Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
15581229::Charles V, German emperor, buried
17051229::Prosper Jolyot's "Idomen‚e," premieres in Paris
17081229::Great Alliance occupies Gent
17781229::English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
17821229::1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
18131229::British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
18371229::Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
18371229::Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
18411229::King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
18451229::Texas admitted as 28th state
18481229::Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
18511229::1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
18521229::Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
18571229::Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht," premieres in Weimar
18621229::Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
18621229::Bowling ball invented
18641229::Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
18671229::1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY
18761229::11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
18761229::Fr‚d‚ric A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie
18851229::Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
18901229::US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
18911229::Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
18951229::Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
18991229::English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up
19001229::General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
19031229::French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
19061229::Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
19081229::Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
19111229::Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
19111229::SF Symphony formed
19131229::1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
19201229::The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
19201229::Yugoslav govt bans communist party
19211229::William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
19221229::Dutch Constitution proclaimed
19221229::Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
19261229::Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
19261229::Victoria (1107) beat NSW (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
19291229::Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
19301229::Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans
19311229::Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
19311229::Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW
19331229::Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds
19341229::1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (MSG)
19341229::Federico Garc¡a Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid
19341229::Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
19371229::2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
19371229::Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
19371229::Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
19371229::Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
19381229::Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins
19401229::Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
19401229::NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
19441229::Belgian nazi L‚on Degrelle at default to the death sentenced
19441229::Gen Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
19471229::Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
19481229::"Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
19481229::Canada recognizes Israel
19481229::US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
19491229::1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
19491229::Hungary nationalized its industries
19511229::Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
19521229::1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
19541229::Kingdom of Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being
19551229::Barbra Streisand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
19571229::Detroit Lions beat Cleve Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
19571229::Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
19581229::Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
19581229::TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
19591229::Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial," premieres in NYC
19621229::Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 8 days
19631229::52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
19651229::"Thunderball" premieres in US
19651229::CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
19651229::Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
19661229::Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
19671229::Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
19671229::Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
19681229::Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
19681229::Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
19681229::NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
19691229::NY Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause
19721229::Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
19721229::Life magazine ceases publication
19721229::Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker v Pakistan at MCG
19741229::Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town," premieres in NYC
19751229::11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
19771229::Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage," premieres in NYC
19781229::Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian govt
19781229::Spain constitution goes into effect
19781229::Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG
19791229::Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
19801229::Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
19821229::Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
19821229::Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
19831229::Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* v WI
19831229::Graeme Yallop completes 268 v Pakistan at cricket MCG
19831229::US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
19841229::5th United Negro College Fund
19841229::Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
19841229::Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
19881229::Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
19881229::Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
19891229::Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
19891229::Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
19891229::Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
19901229::Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
19911229::"Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 perfs
19911229::12th United Negro College Fund
19911229::Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
19921229::Gov Cuomo grants Jean Harris (Scarsdale Diet Dr killer) clemency
19931229::Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
19931229::Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
19941229::B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
19941229::Bangladesh govt of Zia resigns
19941229::Billionaire J Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados
19941229::Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
19941229::Shane Warne takes a hat-trick v England at cricket MCG
19961229::"Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
19961229::"Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after
19961229::"Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC
19971229::Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
19971229::Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
19971229::Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
19971229::Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
02741230::St Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
09871230::French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king
13171230::Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists
16211230::English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
16651230::"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople
16661230::Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname
16721230::Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth
16851230::Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
16891230::Henry Purcell & Tates opera "Dido & Aeneas," premieres in Chesea
17031230::Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
17311230::1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston)
17941230::French troops conquer Grave Neth
18091230::Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
18131230::Danzig surrenders to allied armies
18171230::1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)
18351230::After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R
18351230::HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney
18361230::Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100s die
18441230::Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
18531230::Gadsden Purchase 45,000ý mi (120,000ý km) by Gila River from M‚xico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona & New M‚xico
18541230::Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
18611230::US, banks stops payments in gold
18691230::Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
18731230::American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
18751230::Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
18771230::Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna
18791230::Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres
18841230::Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
18881230::Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star
18921230::Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
18931230::Russia signs military accord with France
18961230::Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5
18971230::Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
19031230::American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
19031230::Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
19061230::Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
19071230::Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
19081230::Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set
19111230::Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Aust at MCG
19111230::Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
19131230::Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 & 9-103)
19151230::Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
19171230::-32øF (-36øC) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
19171230::-37øF (-38øC) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
19181230::John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
19221230::Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
19241230::Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
19251230::NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701
19261230::Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in NYC
19261230::Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated)
19271230::Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
19291230::Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up & Dream," premieres in NYC
19291230::Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
19321230::Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG
19331230::-50øF (-46øC) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
19331230::Govt disallows NSB-membership for civil service
19331230::Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton
19351230::Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
19361230::United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
19381230::Electronic television system patented (V K Zworykin)
19391230::Bradman scores 267 SA v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century
19391230::O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 & 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days
19401230::California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
19411230::Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
19411230::Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer
19411230::Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization
19411230::Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
19431230::Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash
19441230::King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne
19471230::36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
19471230::King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
19471230::Romanian republic proclaimed
19481230::"Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
19491230::India recognizes People's Republic of China
19501230::Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
19521230::Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
19541230::"House of Flowers" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 165 performances
19541230::1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston)
19541230::Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in NYC
19561230::NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
19571230::Israeli govt of Ben-Gurion, resigns
19571230::New York Giants win NFL championship
19581230::French franc devalued
19591230::George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
19611230::Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)
19621230::Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
19631230::"Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV
19631230::Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
19631230::Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
19641230::Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in NYC
19651230::Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines
19671230::Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
19671230::Great Western Forum opens in LA
19681230::-48øF (-44øC), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
19691230::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19701230::Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles
19711230::Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
19711230::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19721230::Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
19731230::1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
19731230::Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game
19731230::Minn Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game
19741230::Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
19751230::"Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 7 performances
19751230::Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
19761230::USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19771230::Carter holds 1st news conf by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
19781230::"King & I" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 719 performances
19781230::Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
19791230::Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
19791230::Togo adopts constitution
19801230::"Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV
19811230::Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season
19821230::Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in NYC
19821230::England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG
19821230::US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
19841230::Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
19851230::IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
19851230::Pakistan restores constitution
19871230::Australia hang on for draw v NZ at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
19871230::Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe
19881230::Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
19881230::Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
19881230::Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 govt fuel standard
19881230::North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
19891230::10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
19891230::Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec)
19901230::"Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
19901230::11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
19921230::Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney
19921230::Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
19931230::"Candles, Snow, & Mistletoe" closes at Palace NYC after 7 perfs
19931230::Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35)
19931230::Vatican recognizes Israel
19951230::Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10
19971230::An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt
03351231::St Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
04061231::80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz
07651231::Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China
08701231::Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
14921231::100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily
15021231::Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino
15641231::Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion
16001231::British East India Company chartered
16041231::Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam
16211231::Hungarian King Bethlen G bor/Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Mikulov
16691231::France & Brandenburg sign secret treaty
16701231::France & England sign Boyne-treaty
16801231::Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens
16871231::1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope
16881231::Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham [OS=Dec 21]
17001231::Frisia/Groningen adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 1/12/1701
17081231::Great Alliance captures Bridge
17111231::Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander
17441231::James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)
17451231::Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk
17561231::Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles
17581231::British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal
17621231::Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
17751231::Battle of Qu‚bec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
17761231::Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70› a day for carpenters, 42› for tailors
17791231::English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels
17811231::Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
17831231::Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states
18051231::End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
18411231::Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
18521231::Future president & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry
18571231::Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
18591231::Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves
18611231::22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record
18621231::-Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River, TN (Stone River, Monfreesboro)
18621231::Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
18621231::Pres Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union
18621231::Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
18621231::Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC
18701231::J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
18791231::Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
18791231::Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace
18791231::Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
18791231::Gilbert/Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in NYC
18791231::Opera "Pirates of Penzance" is produced (NYC)
18901231::Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
18961231::25th auto built in US
18971231::Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
19021231::Boers & British army sign peace treaty
19061231::French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia
19071231::For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
19071231::G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
19101231::US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
19111231::Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
19141231::Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000
19171231::Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
19181231::Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager
19201231::Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inn, v Eng at MCG
19211231::Last San Francisco firehorses retired
19231231::1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
19231231::BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID
19231231::H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in NYC
19241231::Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
19251231::14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry
19271231::Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month
19291231::Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri
19301231::Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
19301231::US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
19321231::John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of NYC
19341231::Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
19351231::CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
19351231::Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
19381231::Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana
19381231::Dutch national debt hits Ÿ3,986,629,805.70
19391231::25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)
19391231::Dutch national debt hits Ÿ4,218,553,180.99
19401231::37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)
19411231::Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
19421231::60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)
19421231::Battle in Barents Sea
19421231::Potatoes rationed in Holland
19431231::NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
19441231::48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
19441231::Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
19451231::Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, SA v Aust Services
19451231::Ratification of UN Charter completed
19461231::French troops leave Lebanon
19461231::Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
19481231::Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
19491231::18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia
19501231::Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year
19511231::1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
19531231::Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
19531231::WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins
19531231::Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
19551231::"Vamp" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances
19571231::AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
19581231::47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2)
19581231::Cubans dictator Batista flees
19581231::International Geophyscial Year ends
19581231::Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
19611231::"lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
19611231::1st performance of Beach Boys
19611231::Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name
19611231::Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
19611231::Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
19611231::Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
19621231::"Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
19621231::American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
19621231::Dutch leave New Guinea
19621231::Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
19621231::Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs
19631231::Chicago Bears win NFL championship
19631231::Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
19631231::Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time
19641231::Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
19641231::Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN
19661231::Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
19661231::Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
19661231::Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India v WI Calcutta, 2-92
19661231::Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks
19671231::"Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 perfs
19671231::1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118
19671231::Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
19671231::Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13ø F)
19681231::1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
19681231::1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144
19681231::NY Jets win AFL championship
19691231::Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi
19701231::Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
19701231::Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
19701231::President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines
19701231::Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
19711231::KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
19711231::Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA
19721231::39th Sugar Bowl: Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0
19721231::Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
19721231::Miami Dolphins beat Pitts Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
19721231::Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
19731231::40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23
19731231::61st Australian Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61)
19731231::Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year
19741231::41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10
19741231::Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year NY Yank contract
19741231::Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
19741231::Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
19741231::NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 yrs for record $3.75 million
19741231::Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer
19751231::42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6
19761231::TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
19761231::The Cars played their 1st gig
19771231::"Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 766 perfs
19771231::"Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 124 performances
19771231::Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
19771231::Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam
19771231::Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
19771231::Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
19771231::WFAT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
19781231::"Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 1859 performances
19781231::"Runaways" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 199 performances
19781231::CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
19781231::Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
19781231::Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US
19791231::Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts
19801231::A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
19801231::NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
19801231::Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns
19811231::CNN Headline News debuts
19811231::Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution
19811231::Netherlands unemployment stands at record 475,000
19821231::CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
19821231::NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
19821231::TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run
19831231::Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
19831231::Jos‚ Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium
19831231::Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup
19841231::Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash
19841231::NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
19841231::Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
19841231::Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta
19841231::US leaves UNESCO
19861231::Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
19861231::Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
19861231::WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
19891231::"Me & My Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances
19891231::"Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
19891231::Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi
19891231::Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles
19891231::Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year
19901231::Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
19901231::Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
19901231::United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
19911231::CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
19911231::Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner
19911231::Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
19911231::J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner
19911231::USSR, last day of existence
19921231::Target date for Europe's single market
19921231::WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry
19931231::Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years
19931231::Loveboat actress Jill Whelan (27) weds Brad St John (33)
19941231::1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland
19941231::Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands
19951231::"Danny Gans on Broadway" closes at Neil Simon NYC
19951231::"Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 308 performances
19951231::"Heiress" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 340 performances
19951231::"Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 14 performances
19951231::"Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 48 perfs
19951231::"Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 71 performances
19951231::62nd Sugar Bowl: Virginia Tech beats Texas
19951231::Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
19951231::Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
19971231::Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
19971231::Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills
19971231::Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service
19971231::More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
19971231::Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba
19971231::S Afr & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
19981231::US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
19991231::Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama