| 2012 | Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge leaves the hospital after suffering from severe morning sickness |
| 2012 | The toll of those afflicted by Typhoon Bopha in the southern Philippines rises to 179,000 left homeless after the storm passed |
| 2011 | Belgium's new federal government is sworn in after a historically long 541 days of negotiations |
| 2011 | An austerity budget is approved by the Parliament of Greece |
| 2010 | International shark experts are called to investigate attacks on tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh that included one fatality |
| 2010 | U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal a cable from Hillary Clinton accusing Saudi Arabia's rich of being the largest source of funding for Sunni terrorist groups |
| 1998 | JC Penney Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match |
| 1995 | 6th Billboard Music Awards |
| 1995 | Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special |
| 1994 | Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590 |
| 1994 | Orange County California files for bankruptcy |
| 1994 | Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995 |
| 1993 | Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29 |
| 1992 | 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die |
| 1992 | 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1) |
| 1992 | Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1992 | SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown |
| 1992 | San Francisco Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen |
| 1991 | "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres |
| 1990 | NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 1990 | Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages |
| 1990 | Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100 |
| 1989 | Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52 |
| 1989 | Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal |
| 1988 | Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1988 | Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela |
| 1988 | Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets vs. WI at the WACA but Australia lose |
| 1988 | Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest) |
| 1988 | Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown |
| 1988 | STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission |
| 1988 | Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles |
| 1987 | 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" |
| 1987 | Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) |
| 1987 | Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1986 | 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Florida (quarterback) |
| 1986 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1984 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1984 | Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage |
| 1983 | A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis |
| 1982 | Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed |
| 1982 | Senator Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce |
| 1982 | 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland |
| 1981 | Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18 |
| 1980 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 1978 | Spain adopts constitution |
| 1977 | South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence |
| 1976 | War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich |
| 1975 | 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) |
| 1975 | Senator Robert Dole and Elizabeth Hanford marry |
| 1974 | George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" |
| 1973 | Bahrain's constitution goes into effect |
| 1973 | Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected Vice President, succeeds Spiro T. Agnew |
| 1973 | NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington D.C. (doesn't happen) |
| 1971 | Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
| 1970 | Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106 |
| 1969 | "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1969 | 300,000 attend Altamont California rock concert feature Rolling Stones |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1968 | Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years |
| 1968 | PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn |
| 1968 | WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1966 | Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium |
| 1965 | 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125 |
| 1964 | KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | President Segni of Italy resigns |
| 1963 | Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans |
| 1963 | Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba |
| 1962 | U.S. abandons Skybolt balastic missile program |
| 1961 | 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB) |
| 1960 | AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels |
| 1958 | U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back |
| 1957 | 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up |
| 1957 | AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) |
| 1957 | Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions |
| 1956 | "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 413 performances |
| 1956 | Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa |
| 1955 | New York psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing |
| 1954 | Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt |
| 1953 | Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14 |
| 1952 | Czechoslovakian government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata |
| 1950 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud |
| 1944 | U.S. 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall |
| 1942 | Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth |
| 1942 | RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) |
| 1941 | Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore |
| 1941 | King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels |
| 1941 | New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens |
| 1940 | Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst |
| 1940 | Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia |
| 1939 | 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB) |
| 1939 | Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | 117 Spanish knights under Captain Piet Laros return to Netherlands |
| 1938 | French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) |
| 1933 | Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in U.S., lifted |
| 1930 | 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6 |
| 1930 | Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia |
| 1929 | Turkey introduces female suffrage |
| 1925 | Italy, Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy) |
| 1925 | Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 19-7 |
| 1922 | 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation |
| 1922 | 1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York |
| 1921 | Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland |
| 1917 | Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) |
| 1917 | French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700 |
| 1916 | German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest |
| 1914 | German troops over run Lodz |
| 1913 | White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo |
| 1912 | China votes for universal human rights |
| 1907 | Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361 |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) |
| 1903 | Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders |
| 1896 | D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura |
| 1884 | Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC |
| 1882 | Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit |
| 1877 | 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) |
| 1877 | Washington Post publishes 1st edition |
| 1876 | 1st crematorium in U.S. begins operation, Washington, Penn |
| 1876 | City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time |
| 1876 | U.S. Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won) |
| 1875 | 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes |
| 1873 | 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1 |
| 1870 | Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Representatives (SC) |
| 1866 | Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed |
| 1865 | 13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery |
| 1864 | Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC |
| 1862 | President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians |
| 1849 | Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland |
| 1846 | Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris) |
| 1843 | Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens |
| 1841 | Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres |
| 1833 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata |
| 1825 | President John Quincy Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory |
| 1822 | Veterinary school in Utrecht opens |
| 1820 | U.S. president James Monroe re-elected |
| 1790 | Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary U.S. capital |
| 1787 | Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor |
| 1768 | 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland) |
| 1756 | British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland |
| 1732 | 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City |
| 1723 | Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution |
| 1648 | Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament |
| 1641 | Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands |
| 1631 | 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed |
| 1534 | Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish |
| 1527 | Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto |
| 1492 | Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas |
| 1491 | King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne |
| 1424 | Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews |
| 1240 | Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev |
| 1196 | Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolaas Flood" |
| 1160 | Jean Bodels "Jeu de St. Nicholas," premieres in Arras |
| 963 | Leo VIII elected Pope |
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