| 2012 | After suffering from a concussion caused by fainting from dehydration, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hospitalized for a blood clot |
| 2012 | 'Science' magazine names Higgs boson, the confirmation of the existence of a subatomic particle, as the 2012 Breakthrough of the Year |
| 2011 | The New South Wales boat 'Loki' is proclaimed the winner of the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race |
| 2011 | Canadian Auto Workers vote in favor of striking against Caterpillar Inc's locomotive manufacturing plant in London, Ontario |
| 2010 | The internet population in China reaches 450 million |
| 2010 | In Thailand, 79 pro-government 'yellow shirt' protesters are jailed for storming a state-run television station in 2008 |
| 2006 | Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad |
| 1997 | An abandoned building collapses on New York's 42nd St, no one hurt |
| 1995 | Carquest Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10 |
| 1993 | "Candles, Snow, and Mistletoe" closes at Palace New York City after 7 performances |
| 1993 | Singer Deni Hines (22) weds INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly (35) |
| 1993 | Vatican recognizes Israel |
| 1992 | Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney |
| 1992 | Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win vs. West Indies |
| 1990 | "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 93 performances |
| 1990 | 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000 |
| 1989 | 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000 |
| 1989 | Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50m freestyle (27.15 sec) |
| 1988 | Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US |
| 1988 | Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery) |
| 1988 | Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard |
| 1988 | North subpoenas Reagan and Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial |
| 1987 | Australia hang on for draw vs. New Zealand at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short |
| 1987 | Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe |
| 1985 | IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released |
| 1985 | Pakistan restores constitution |
| 1984 | Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) and Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed |
| 1982 | Anthony Shaffers "Whodunnit," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG |
| 1982 | U.S. Assay Office in New York City, New York closes |
| 1981 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season |
| 1980 | "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV |
| 1979 | Rock group, Emerson, Lake and Palmer break up |
| 1979 | Togo adopts constitution |
| 1978 | "King and I" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 719 performances |
| 1978 | Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach |
| 1977 | Carter holds 1st news conference by U.S. President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw) |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | "Boccaccio" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1975 | Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force |
| 1974 | Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought) |
| 1973 | 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab) |
| 1973 | Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game |
| 1973 | Minnesota Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game |
| 1972 | Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks |
| 1971 | Long Island NHL franchise purchased (New York Islanders) |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Mazama and Winthrop, Washington (state record) |
| 1967 | Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1967 | Great Western Forum opens in LA |
| 1965 | Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines |
| 1964 | Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in New York City |
| 1963 | "Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1963 | Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar |
| 1963 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| 1962 | Green Bay Packers beat New York Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game |
| 1961 | Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936) |
| 1959 | George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned |
| 1958 | French franc devalued |
| 1957 | Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns |
| 1957 | New York Giants win NFL championship |
| 1956 | New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game |
| 1954 | "House of Flowers" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 165 performances |
| 1954 | 1st use of 24-sec shot clock in pro basketball (Rochester vs Boston) |
| 1954 | Harold Arlen/Truman Capotes musical premieres in New York City |
| 1952 | Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US |
| 1950 | Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states in France Union |
| 1949 | India recognizes People's Republic of China |
| 1948 | "Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater New York City for 1077 performances |
| 1947 | 36th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
| 1947 | King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne |
| 1947 | Romanian republic proclaimed |
| 1944 | King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne |
| 1943 | Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps and cash |
| 1941 | Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach |
| 1941 | Nazibezetters oblige artsen member to become of Artsenkamer |
| 1941 | Nazis require Dutch physicians to join Nazi organization |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament |
| 1940 | California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens |
| 1939 | Bradman scores 267 SA vs. Vic, world record 34th double cricket century |
| 1939 | O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 and 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days |
| 1938 | Electronic television system patented by V. K. Zworykin |
| 1936 | United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant |
| 1935 | Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
| 1933 | -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record) |
| 1933 | Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service |
| 1933 | Jack Badcock scores 274 vs. Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton |
| 1932 | Bradman out for a duck vs. England at cricket MCG |
| 1929 | Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up and Dream," premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates |
| 1927 | Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long) |
| 1926 | Paul Eliot Greens "In Abraham's Bosom," premieres in New York City |
| 1926 | Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substaniated) |
| 1925 | NSW score 705 against Victoria, go from 8-475 to 9-701 |
| 1924 | Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems |
| 1922 | Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR |
| 1918 | John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover |
| 1917 | -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record) |
| 1917 | -37 degrees F (-38 degrees C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record) |
| 1915 | Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die |
| 1913 | Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 and 9-103) |
| 1911 | Crickets S F Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs vs. Australia at MCG |
| 1911 | Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of Republic of China |
| 1908 | Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers outscore Edmonton, 13-10 in 2 game set |
| 1907 | Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball |
| 1906 | Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy |
| 1903 | American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans |
| 1903 | Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602 |
| 1897 | Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony |
| 1896 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5 |
| 1893 | Russia signs military accord with France |
| 1892 | Dr. Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal |
| 1888 | Belgium: king Leopold II installs Order of African Star |
| 1884 | Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig |
| 1879 | Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres |
| 1877 | Johnannes Brahms' 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna |
| 1875 | Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms |
| 1873 | American Metrological Society forms (New York City) weights, measures and money |
| 1869 | Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms |
| 1861 | US, banks stops payments in gold |
| 1854 | Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in U.S., incorporated in New York City |
| 1853 | Gadsden Purchase 45,000 mi (120,000 km) by Gila River from Mexico for $10 million, area is now southern Arizona and New Mexico |
| 1844 | Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg) |
| 1836 | Lehman-theater in St. Petersburg catches fire; 100s die |
| 1835 | After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sail from New Zealand to Sydney |
| 1817 | 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona) |
| 1813 | Danzig surrenders to allied armies |
| 1809 | Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston |
| 1794 | French troops conquer Grave, Netherlands |
| 1731 | 1st U.S. music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston) |
| 1703 | Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die |
| 1689 | Henry Purcell and Tates opera "Dido and Aeneas," premieres in Chesea |
| 1685 | Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands |
| 1672 | Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden, Netherlands |
| 1666 | Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname |
| 1665 | "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople |
| 1621 | English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament |
| 1317 | Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists |
| 987 | French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king |
| 274 | St. Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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