| 2012 | Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi declares that proposed referendums on a new constitution will be enacted, but the decree he issued expanding his powers will be annulled |
| 2012 | Philippine President Benigno Aquino, announces a state of national calamity after Typhoon Bopha claims over 450 lives |
| 2011 | Japan's Government apologizes to Canada for the treatment of its POWs during World War II |
| 2011 | John Corzine, former CEO of MG Global, testifies before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, stating he doesn't know where hundreds of millions of dollars of his customers' money has gone |
| 2010 | Paris closes the Eiffel Tower due to snow |
| 2010 | Large parts of the United Kingdom are treated to a rare sighting of a meteor fireball |
| 2009 | At a ceremony in eastern Shan State, Burma, authorities burn $93 million in seized narcotic drugs |
| 1997 | 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes and Spice Girls win |
| 1996 | "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 22 performances |
| 1996 | Donna Andrews and Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1994 | "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Sq New York City for 12 per |
| 1994 | Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges |
| 1994 | Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed |
| 1993 | 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria |
| 1993 | 4th Billboard Music Awards |
| 1993 | Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53 |
| 1993 | Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England |
| 1992 | Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km) |
| 1992 | NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993 |
| 1991 | "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1991 | "Nick and Nora" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1991 | Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States |
| 1990 | Galileo Earth-1 Flyby |
| 1990 | Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
| 1989 | Great Britain performs nuclear test |
| 1988 | Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers and sink Bucks, 113-109 |
| 1987 | Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| 1987 | Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel |
| 1987 | President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles |
| 1986 | House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker |
| 1985 | 60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62) |
| 1985 | Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (New York Jet record) to Wesley Walker |
| 1985 | Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1984 | 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62) |
| 1984 | Europe and 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty |
| 1984 | Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live |
| 1983 | 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1983 | Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center |
| 1982 | "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador New York City for 6 performances |
| 1982 | Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot |
| 1982 | Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
| 1982 | Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hours, police kill him he had no explosives |
| 1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1980 | Bravo network premieres on cable TV |
| 1978 | Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park |
| 1977 | 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB) |
| 1977 | Portugal's premier Soares resigns |
| 1976 | U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1975 | "Raisin" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 847 performances |
| 1974 | Greek monarchy rejected by referendum |
| 1974 | Irish Republican Socialist Party forms |
| 1974 | Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| 1974 | Soyuz 16 returns to Earth |
| 1973 | "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 296 performances |
| 1973 | 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB) |
| 1972 | United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 |
| 1969 | Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed |
| 1969 | Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA |
| 1967 | Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK |
| 1967 | NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals |
| 1966 | A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith |
| 1966 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
| 1965 | Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower," premieres in New York City |
| 1965 | Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council |
| 1963 | "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 112 performances |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan, Jr. wins LPGA Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Golf |
| 1963 | 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die |
| 1962 | "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert New York City after 300 performances |
| 1962 | 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City |
| 1962 | Failed coup in Brunei |
| 1962 | Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft) |
| 1961 | Antwerp Belgium diocese forms |
| 1961 | Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec) |
| 1961 | South Africa vs. New Zealand, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock |
| 1961 | Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78 |
| 1960 | Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium |
| 1959 | Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta |
| 1959 | President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs. Australia Test Cricket at Karachi |
| 1956 | 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia |
| 1956 | 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0 |
| 1956 | Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks |
| 1955 | 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB) |
| 1955 | Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award |
| 1955 | Turkish government of Menderes forms |
| 1954 | Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed," premieres in New York City |
| 1954 | WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB) |
| 1952 | 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy) |
| 1952 | French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die |
| 1952 | Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel |
| 1951 | "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 267 performances |
| 1951 | AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games |
| 1949 | "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 740 performances |
| 1949 | Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa |
| 1949 | Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," premieres in New York City |
| 1948 | "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 168 performances |
| 1948 | 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB) |
| 1948 | Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine |
| 1947 | "Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater New York City for 11 performances |
| 1946 | Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight |
| 1943 | John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle," premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB) |
| 1941 | Destruction Camp Chelmo opens |
| 1941 | London: Dutch government declares Japan the war |
| 1941 | Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo |
| 1941 | SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM |
| 1941 | U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan, U.S. enters WW II |
| 1940 | 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 |
| 1938 | Highest temperature for December in U.S. recorded in La Mesa California |
| 1938 | LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police |
| 1936 | Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua |
| 1936 | NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black and white teachers |
| 1934 | Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich |
| 1931 | Coaxial cable patented |
| 1930 | Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway New York City |
| 1930 | Cole Porter's musical "NYCers," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | German - U.S friendship treaty signed |
| 1923 | Labour/Liberals win British parliament |
| 1923 | Salary and price freeze in Germany |
| 1921 | Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty |
| 1915 | Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres |
| 1914 | British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island |
| 1914 | Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox |
| 1914 | Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step," premieres in New York City |
| 1913 | Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF |
| 1909 | Bird banding society found |
| 1902 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became Associate Justice on Supreme Court |
| 1899 | Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith |
| 1896 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" |
| 1895 | Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out |
| 1886 | American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
| 1881 | Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850 |
| 1880 | 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South Africa |
| 1876 | Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years |
| 1875 | Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1874 | Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie, Kansas |
| 1869 | 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome |
| 1864 | Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum") |
| 1863 | 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile |
| 1863 | Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South |
| 1863 | Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic |
| 1863 | President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters |
| 1857 | 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY" |
| 1854 | Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin |
| 1852 | Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten," premieres in Breslau |
| 1849 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples |
| 1846 | Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust," premieres |
| 1813 | Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres |
| 1794 | 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published |
| 1792 | 1st cremation in U.S., Henry Laurens |
| 1777 | Captain Cook leaves Society Islands |
| 1776 | George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from New Jersey |
| 1710 | Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured |
| 1326 | Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi |
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