| 2003 | Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport |
| 1997 | For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion |
| 1997 | Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show |
| 1994 | "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1991 | Last day of a washout Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka at Gujranwala |
| 1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R. |
| 1990 | "Godfather III" premieres |
| 1989 | Japanese scientist achieve -271.8 degrees C, coldest temp ever recorded |
| 1987 | Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured |
| 1984 | NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points |
| 1983 | 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade |
| 1982 | Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians |
| 1979 | Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs. Pakistan at Kanpur |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan |
| 1977 | Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt |
| 1976 | Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed |
| 1976 | Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier |
| 1974 | Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia |
| 1973 | Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles) |
| 1972 | England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi |
| 1971 | Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24 |
| 1971 | Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson |
| 1971 | Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul |
| 1969 | 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor |
| 1969 | India all out for 163 at Madras vs. Australia, Ashley Mallett 5-91 |
| 1968 | Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon |
| 1967 | Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged |
| 1964 | "Goldfinger" premieres in US |
| 1964 | George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans |
| 1963 | Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1959 | A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas |
| 1959 | Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set |
| 1959 | Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market |
| 1958 | Alan Freed's Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular opens |
| 1957 | Ed Gein found insane of murder |
| 1955 | Cleveland Browns win NFL championship |
| 1955 | Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music and popular music |
| 1954 | WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand) |
| 1951 | 1st Christmas Day in Test Crickets, Australia vs. WI at Adelaide |
| 1951 | West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket |
| 1950 | Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game |
| 1950 | Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart |
| 1950 | Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey and smuggled back to Scotland |
| 1947 | Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law) |
| 1946 | Constitution accepted in Taiwan |
| 1942 | Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death |
| 1942 | British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter |
| 1942 | Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad |
| 1941 | Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong |
| 1941 | Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan |
| 1940 | Bradman out 1st ball for SA vs. Victoria before 6213 |
| 1940 | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | Grimmett and Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156) |
| 1939 | Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer |
| 1938 | George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara |
| 1937 | Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio |
| 1937 | Queensland all out for 93 vs. SA in front of 10,436 |
| 1936 | Belgian bishops condemn fascism and communism |
| 1936 | Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA vs. Queensland before 4,865 |
| 1934 | Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 vs. Qld before 6,180 |
| 1934 | Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett |
| 1933 | Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor |
| 1933 | Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria vs. Tasmania at Hobart |
| 1932 | During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes |
| 1931 | Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,697 |
| 1931 | Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria vs. Tas at Hobart |
| 1931 | NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio |
| 1930 | Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York opens |
| 1930 | Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,422 |
| 1930 | Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500 |
| 1929 | Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390 |
| 1928 | Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic vs. NSW) 14,887 |
| 1928 | NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps |
| 1926 | Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan 1926-1989 |
| 1923 | Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St. New York City |
| 1922 | Lenin dictates his "Political testament" |
| 1917 | "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City |
| 1917 | Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up," premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | Irving Berlin and Harry B Smith's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1914 | Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans) |
| 1911 | Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in New York City |
| 1908 | Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns and becomes 1st black heavyweight champ |
| 1905 | V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste," premieres in New York City |
| 1902 | Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes," premieres in New York City |
| 1901 | Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits |
| 1900 | Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany |
| 1899 | Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade |
| 1896 | "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa |
| 1894 | 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football |
| 1888 | 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia |
| 1875 | Lambs Club in New York forms |
| 1868 | Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War) |
| 1862 | 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC |
| 1848 | New Haven Railroad opens |
| 1843 | 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, New York City) |
| 1837 | Battle of Okeechobee-U.S. forces defeat Seminole Indians |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia |
| 1832 | Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St. Martin at Cape Receiver |
| 1831 | Louisiana and Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday |
| 1830 | Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres |
| 1818 | 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria) |
| 1818 | Handel's Messiah, U.S. premieres in Boston |
| 1776 | Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians |
| 1775 | Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate |
| 1760 | Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught" |
| 1758 | Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return |
| 1745 | Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden |
| 1745 | Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians |
| 1741 | Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale |
| 1717 | Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed |
| 1688 | English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France |
| 1688 | Lord Delamere sides with King James II |
| 1683 | English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland |
| 1651 | Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas" |
| 1641 | Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden and France |
| 1640 | Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis |
| 1621 | Governor William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas |
| 1613 | Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant |
| 1582 | Zealand/Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th |
| 1522 | Turkish troops occupy Rhodos |
| 1492 | Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic |
| 1223 | St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy) |
| 1130 | Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of Sicily |
| 1121 | Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen |
| 1101 | Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Netherlands-Lutherans |
| 1100 | Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem |
| 1066 | William the Conqueror, crowned king of England |
| 1048 | Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX |
| 1046 | Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III RC-German emperor |
| 1000 | Monarch Istvan crowned king of Hungary |
| 999 | Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne |
| 979 | Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom |
| 969 | Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium |
| 967 | John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor |
| 875 | Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome |
| 800 | Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor |
| 795 | Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 604 | Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers |
| 597 | England adopts Julian calendar |
| 498 | French king Clovis baptises himself |
| 390 | Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica |
| 352 | 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th |
| 337 | Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th |
| 1 | 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus |
