| 2012 | All members of the Commonwealth of Nations, who have the British Monarch as their head of state, agree to the Succession of the Crown Bill, enabling a female child, for the first time, to become monarch |
| 2012 | In Egypt, one hundred thousand people gather around the Presidential palace to protest proposed constitutional changes by Mohamed Morsi, the President of Egypt |
| 2011 | In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for nearly 65 years |
| 2011 | Tiger Woods wins the Chevron World Challenge, the first tournament he has won in over two years |
| 2010 | Political pressure and cyber-attacks directed against WikiLeaks are condemned by Reporters Without Borders |
| 2010 | While world leaders back Africa's Alassane Ouattara as the Ivory Coast presidential election winner, a swearing-in ceremony is held for Laurent Gbagbo in Cote D'Ivoire |
| 2009 | 20 people are killed in a fire at a nightclub in the North Sumatra capital of Medan, Indonesia |
| 1997 | "Diary of Anne Frank," opens at Music Box Theater New York City |
| 1997 | NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach |
| 1996 | 7th Billboard Music Awards |
| 1996 | NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral |
| 1996 | Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57 |
| 1995 | Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test |
| 1994 | "Angels in America-Perestroika" closes at W Kerr New York City after 216 performances |
| 1994 | "Angels in America-Millennium Approach" closes at Kerr after 367 performances |
| 1994 | 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1) |
| 1994 | Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1993 | Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec) |
| 1993 | Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53) |
| 1991 | Judds final concert (Nashville) |
| 1991 | Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years) |
| 1991 | Pan American World Airways ceased operations |
| 1990 | Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City |
| 1990 | Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages |
| 1988 | Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash |
| 1988 | Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1987 | Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51) |
| 1986 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-7 |
| 1986 | Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound," premieres in New York City |
| 1985 | "Les Miserables" opens at Palace Theatre, London |
| 1985 | French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski |
| 1985 | President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser |
| 1984 | Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner |
| 1983 | "Amen Corner" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 83 performances |
| 1983 | "Baby" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 241 performances |
| 1983 | David Shire and R Maltby Jr's musical "Baby," premieres in New York City |
| 1983 | New Jersey Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0 |
| 1983 | U.S. jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon |
| 1982 | 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB) |
| 1982 | China adopts its constitution |
| 1982 | Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp |
| 1981 | "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1981 | President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence |
| 1981 | Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) |
| 1981 | According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa |
| 1980 | 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up |
| 1980 | Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies) |
| 1979 | Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith |
| 1979 | Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero) |
| 1978 | Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor |
| 1978 | Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed |
| 1978 | Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus |
| 1978 | War criminal Pieter Menten freed |
| 1977 | Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship |
| 1977 | Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself |
| 1977 | NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats Kansas City 27-7 |
| 1977 | Neil Simon's "Chapter Two," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | Liz Taylor's 7th marriage to John Warner |
| 1975 | 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead |
| 1974 | Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims |
| 1974 | Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison |
| 1973 | Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter |
| 1970 | Unemployment in U.S. increases to 5.8 percent |
| 1966 | KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert New York City after 232 performances |
| 1965 | 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die |
| 1965 | 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner) |
| 1965 | Gemini 7 (Borman and Lovell) launched |
| 1965 | San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000 |
| 1964 | Baseball approves a free-agent draft |
| 1964 | Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album |
| 1964 | Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes |
| 1964 | Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, vs. Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31 |
| 1963 | Aldo Moro forms Italian government |
| 1963 | Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1961 | Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days |
| 1961 | Smallest New York Knick, 49th St. MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm) |
| 1961 | Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN |
| 1961 | WXGeorgia TV channel 8 in Waycross, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community |
| 1958 | Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns |
| 1957 | 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published |
| 1957 | 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St. John's England) |
| 1956 | 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (quarterback) |
| 1954 | "Hit the Trail" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1954 | "On Your Toes" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 64 performances |
| 1952 | Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word |
| 1952 | Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO |
| 1951 | Copland/Robbins' "Pied Piper," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500 |
| 1949 | Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run |
| 1948 | "Magdalena" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1948 | SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die |
| 1947 | U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union |
| 1945 | 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB) |
| 1945 | Senate approves U.S. participation in UN |
| 1944 | Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded |
| 1943 | 2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu |
| 1943 | Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr. Ribar |
| 1942 | 1st U.S. citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) |
| 1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration |
| 1942 | U.S. bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II |
| 1942 | Works Progress Administration liquidated |
| 1941 | Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts |
| 1935 | 1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration |
| 1933 | Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," premieres in New York City |
| 1931 | "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair |
| 1930 | French government of Tardieu falls |
| 1930 | Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control |
| 1928 | Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
| 1927 | Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem |
| 1927 | Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP |
| 1926 | 14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats University of Toronto, 10-7 |
| 1923 | Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of "Ten Commandments" premieres |
| 1923 | WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show) |
| 1922 | Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman Legation Secretary-U.S. foreign service |
| 1920 | 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds |
| 1920 | 8th CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3 |
| 1918 | President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office |
| 1915 | F F Fletcher is 1st Admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor |
| 1915 | Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga |
| 1915 | Panama Pacific International Exposition opens |
| 1914 | Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court |
| 1909 | 1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6 |
| 1908 | Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup |
| 1906 | Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms |
| 1905 | British government of Balfour resigns |
| 1901 | Anne Russell's "Girl and the judge," premieres in New York City |
| 1899 | 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes |
| 1899 | Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor |
| 1890 | Willem III, Dutch king, buried |
| 1889 | Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean |
| 1875 | William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, New York City - Tammany Hall, escapes from jail |
| 1867 | Grange organized to protect farm interests |
| 1864 | Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA |
| 1864 | Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law |
| 1863 | Storm flood ravages Netherlands coastal provinces |
| 1851 | President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France |
| 1844 | James K Polk elected 11th president of US |
| 1843 | Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented, Mass |
| 1843 | Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig |
| 1836 | Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa |
| 1833 | American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia |
| 1832 | French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp |
| 1829 | Britain abolished "suttee" in India, widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre |
| 1816 | James Monroe (VA), elected 5th president, defeating Federalist Rufus King |
| 1812 | Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania patents a horse-drawn mower |
| 1798 | Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt |
| 1791 | Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published |
| 1783 | General Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby |
| 1691 | Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania |
| 1691 | Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands |
| 1688 | General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III |
| 1682 | 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester) |
| 1680 | Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th |
| 1674 | Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago |
| 1665 | Jean Racine's "Alexandre le Grand," premieres in Paris |
| 1655 | Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue |
| 1644 | 1st European peace congress opens in Munster |
| 1619 | America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va) |
| 1563 | Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years |
| 1534 | Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad |
| 1489 | Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors |
| 1259 | Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III and French king Louis IX |
| 1197 | Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah |
| 1110 | Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders |
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