| 2005 | South Africa is the 5th country to recognize same-sex marriages |
| 1997 | GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport, Iowa on KORB 93.5 FM |
| 1997 | Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS |
| 1996 | 85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2) |
| 1996 | Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India |
| 1994 | 3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident |
| 1994 | Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce they are seperating |
| 1994 | Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico |
| 1994 | PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail |
| 1994 | Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London |
| 1993 | Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18 |
| 1992 | 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana and crash, 13 die |
| 1992 | Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco |
| 1991 | "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin New York City after 32 performances |
| 1991 | "Once on this Island" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 469 performances |
| 1991 | 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1) |
| 1991 | AIDS awareness day |
| 1991 | Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election |
| 1991 | Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan |
| 1991 | U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 lands |
| 1991 | Ukrainian people vote for independence |
| 1990 | 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (quarterback) |
| 1990 | British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) |
| 1990 | Hissene Habre of Chad flees to Cameroon |
| 1990 | Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks |
| 1990 | Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint session |
| 1990 | New York Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96 |
| 1989 | "Day Without Art" - Artists demonstrate against AIDS |
| 1989 | East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution |
| 1989 | Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels contract |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican |
| 1988 | 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless |
| 1988 | Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country, Pakistan |
| 1988 | Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow |
| 1988 | NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics |
| 1988 | New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St. Louis Blues |
| 1987 | Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel |
| 1986 | Musee d'orsay opens in Paris |
| 1986 | Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains" |
| 1985 | Noraly Beyer becomes Netherlands 1st black TV newscaster |
| 1985 | STS-61-C vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1985 | South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms |
| 1984 | 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (quarterback) |
| 1984 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1984 | Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title |
| 1983 | Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury |
| 1982 | Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart |
| 1982 | Michael Jackson releases 'Thriller' |
| 1982 | Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico |
| 1981 | 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain |
| 1981 | Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed |
| 1980 | 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB) |
| 1980 | Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships" |
| 1980 | U.S. Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination |
| 1978 | Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size |
| 1978 | Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, vs. England at the Gabba |
| 1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | Angola admitted to UN |
| 1976 | Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president |
| 1976 | Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks" |
| 1975 | U.S. president Gerald Ford visits China |
| 1974 | Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died |
| 1974 | Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5) |
| 1974 | LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8 |
| 1973 | Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea |
| 1973 | Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year |
| 1973 | Jan Ferraris wins LPGA-Japan Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champ |
| 1972 | Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK |
| 1971 | "2 Gentlemen of Verona" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 613 performances |
| 1971 | Cubs release Ernie Banks and sign him as a coach |
| 1971 | Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 gentlemen of Verona," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US |
| 1971 | People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| 1970 | Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico |
| 1970 | NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 1970 | Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| 1969 | U.S. government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II |
| 1968 | "Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 1281 performances |
| 1968 | Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela |
| 1967 | Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle) |
| 1967 | Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope |
| 1967 | Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams |
| 1967 | Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses |
| 1966 | Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor |
| 1966 | Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colorado |
| 1965 | Airlift of refugees from Cuba to U.S. began |
| 1965 | South Africa government says children of white fathers are white |
| 1964 | Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros |
| 1964 | ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign |
| 1963 | New York Jets 1st shutout, beat Kansas City 17-0 |
| 1963 | Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union |
| 1962 | Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27) |
| 1962 | KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo |
| 1959 | 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica |
| 1959 | 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space |
| 1959 | 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB) |
| 1959 | The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space |
| 1958 | "Flower Drum Song" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 602 performances |
| 1958 | Central African Republic made autonomous member of French Community (National Day) |
| 1958 | Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic) |
| 1957 | Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1956 | "Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 73 performances |
| 1956 | Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0) |
| 1956 | Frank Robinson (NL) and Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year |
| 1956 | Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns |
| 1955 | Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus |
| 1954 | Nationalist China and U.S. sign dike agreement |
| 1954 | Yankees send Miller, Segrist, Leppert and 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson, Fridley and Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal) |
| 1953 | Red Sox trade M McDermott and Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen |
| 1953 | WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, South Carolina (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Walter Alston named Dodger manager |
| 1951 | 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB) |
| 1951 | Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London |
| 1951 | Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds |
| 1949 | WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1949 | WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine |
| 1948 | Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player |
| 1947 | Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test vs. India at the Gabba |
| 1947 | India cricket all out for 58 vs. Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2 |
| 1946 | Australia compile 645 vs. India at the Gabba (Bradman 187) |
| 1945 | CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg, 35-0 at Toronto |
| 1944 | Bela Bartok's Concerto for orchestra, premoeres |
| 1944 | Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands |
| 1944 | Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres |
| 1943 | FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day) |
| 1942 | Gasoline rationed in US |
| 1941 | British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python |
| 1941 | Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war |
| 1941 | Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years |
| 1941 | U.S. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes |
| 1939 | SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews |
| 1938 | School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah |
| 1937 | Japan recognizes Franco government |
| 1936 | 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E) |
| 1936 | Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use |
| 1936 | EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants |
| 1935 | Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp |
| 1933 | Rudolf Hess and Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler government |
| 1931 | Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint |
| 1930 | NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty |
| 1930 | Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent |
| 1929 | BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe |
| 1929 | Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe |
| 1928 | CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina, 30-0 at Hamilton |
| 1928 | Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 1925 | Treaty of Locarno signed |
| 1924 | Calles becomes president of Mexico |
| 1924 | George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | CFL Grey Cup: Queen's U beats Regina, 54-0 at Toronto |
| 1922 | 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Captain Turner, RAF |
| 1922 | Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns |
| 1921 | 1st U.S. helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight |
| 1921 | U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency |
| 1919 | AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By," premieres in Manchester |
| 1919 | Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament |
| 1918 | Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence |
| 1918 | Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown |
| 1918 | Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade |
| 1918 | Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established |
| 1917 | Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb |
| 1913 | 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts) |
| 1913 | Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38) |
| 1909 | 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa |
| 1909 | 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef |
| 1906 | Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris) |
| 1906 | Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Captain of Kopenick) sentenced to 4 yrs |
| 1903 | "The Great Train Robbery," the 1st Western film, released |
| 1900 | South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders |
| 1896 | 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY) |
| 1891 | James Naismith creates the game of basketball |
| 1887 | Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet" |
| 1887 | Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao |
| 1878 | 1st White House telephone installed |
| 1868 | John D. Rockefeller begins anti oil war |
| 1864 | Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee to Saltville, VA |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia |
| 1852 | Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands |
| 1843 | 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens |
| 1835 | Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales |
| 1831 | Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather |
| 1824 | House of Representatives begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams, |
| 1824 | Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president |
| 1822 | Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil |
| 1822 | Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran |
| 1821 | Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain |
| 1804 | Emperor Napoleon marries Josephine of Martinique |
| 1783 | Charles and M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in hydrogen balloon |
| 1783 | J van North launches unmanned balloon |
| 1750 | 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md |
| 1742 | Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia |
| 1708 | Great Alliance occupies Brussels |
| 1656 | Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden |
| 1653 | An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St. Albans to London in less than 90 minutes |
| 1641 | Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery |
| 1640 | Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule |
| 1626 | Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, driven out |
| 1566 | Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva |
| 1167 | Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League |
