| 2012 | BMP7 (Bone Morphogenetic Protein 7), a potential therapeutic utility for recurrent metastatic disease, is announced as the Molecule of the Year 2011 |
| 2012 | Vano Merabishvili is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Georgia by the country's President, Mikheil Saakashvili |
| 2011 | Investigations by the ECDC and the European Food Safety Authority implicate fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt in the deadly E. coli outbreaks |
| 2011 | Tropical Storm Arlene, the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season's first tropical storm, lands near Cabo Rojo and brings heavy rain to Mexico and southern Texas |
| 2010 | The 15th President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, is sworn in, as is the 15th Vice President of the Philippines, Jejomar Binay |
| 2009 | One person out of 183 passengers and crew survives the crash of Yemenia Flight 626 off the coast of Moroni, Comoros |
| 2005 | Spain becomes the 3rd country to permit same-sex marriage |
| 1998 | Sega Channel, cable's 1st on-demand video game service, closes down02930301 |
| 1998 | Linda Tripp begins to testify before a grand jury about the Lewinsky case |
| 1997 | Leap Second to synchronize atomic clocks |
| 1996 | "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| 1996 | "Moon Over Buffalo" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 308 performances |
| 1996 | "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 118 performances |
| 1996 | Caroline Frolic, Miss Ontario, crowned Miss Renaissance USA |
| 1996 | Dottie Pepper wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1995 | Indians' Eddie Murray, is 20th to reach 3,000 hits |
| 1994 | Airbus A330 crash at Toulouse France, 7 killed |
| 1994 | Giants outfielder Darren Lewis errors after record 392 flawless games |
| 1994 | Pre-trial hearings open in LA against OJ Simpson |
| 1994 | U.S. Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life |
| 1993 | "Les Miserables," opens at Point Theatre, Dublin |
| 1993 | Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field |
| 1992 | 1st pay bathrooms in U.S. open: 25 cents, New York City |
| 1992 | Actress Cecil Hoffman (Zoe-LA Law) marries Paul Slye |
| 1992 | Fidel Ramos installed as president of Philippines |
| 1992 | Total solar eclipse in Uruguay (5m21s) |
| 1991 | 37th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Meg Mallon |
| 1990 | East and West Germany merge their economies |
| 1989 | "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia |
| 1989 | Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK |
| 1989 | Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl |
| 1989 | NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam |
| 1989 | N.Y. State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill |
| 1989 | Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup |
| 1988 | "Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV |
| 1988 | Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason |
| 1988 | Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Fla |
| 1987 | Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time |
| 1987 | Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump |
| 1986 | Georgia sodomy law upheld by Supreme Court (5-4) |
| 1985 | "King and I" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 191 performances |
| 1985 | 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut |
| 1985 | Juli Inkster wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
| 1985 | Los Angeles Dodger Pedro Gonzalez sets NL record of 15 home runs in June |
| 1984 | Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia |
| 1984 | Last sixpence minted in Great Britain (in use since 1551) |
| 1984 | Longest pro football game, Los Angeles Express beats Michigan Panthers 27-21 in USFL playoffs, games lasts 93 minutes 33 seconds |
| 1982 | "Lena Horne: Lady, Music" closes at Nederlander New York City after 333 performances |
| 1982 | Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification |
| 1982 | Orbiter Challenger (OV-099) rolled out at Palmdale |
| 1982 | New Jersey NHL franchise officially named Devils by fan balloting, runner-up names are Blades, Meadowlanders and Americans |
| 1981 | China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy |
| 1980 | West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow |
| 1979 | "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1979 | Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury |
| 1978 | English prince Michael marries baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz |
| 1978 | Giants' Willie McCovey becomes 12th to hit 500 home runs |
| 1978 | Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox |
| 1977 | Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52" |
| 1977 | Marvel Comics publish "Kiss book" tributing rock group Kiss |
| 1977 | U.S. Railway Post Office final train run, New York to Washington D.C. |
| 1977 | Yankee DH Cliff Johnson hit 3 consecutive home runs in Toronto |
| 1976 | John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4 |
| 1975 | Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman |
| 1975 | Heavyweight Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia |
| 1975 | University of California reports galaxy 3C123 at 8 billion light years distance |
| 1974 | 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala |
| 1974 | Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester New York) |
| 1974 | Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west |
| 1973 | "Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour," TV Variety; debut on ABC |
| 1973 | Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton) |
| 1973 | Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse |
| 1972 | 1st leap second day; also 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985 |
| 1972 | Cincinnati Reds are 11 games back in NL, and go on to win pennant |
| 1971 | Biesheuvel government forms |
| 1971 | Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment |
| 1970 | Brazil beats Italy 4-1 in soccer's 9th World Cup at Mexico City |
| 1970 | Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium opens, Braves beat Reds 8-2 |
| 1969 | Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34 |
| 1969 | Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco |
| 1968 | E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" |
| 1968 | Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs |
| 1968 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| 1967 | Major Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut |
| 1967 | Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria |
| 1967 | Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils |
| 1966 | Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour |
| 1966 | Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa |
| 1966 | Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA |
| 1966 | Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, vs. WI Trent Bridge, wicketless |
| 1966 | Vice Admiral William F Raborn, Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA |
| 1965 | NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise |
| 1964 | Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit |
| 1964 | Last United Nations troops leave Congo |
| 1963 | Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church |
| 1963 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open |
| 1962 | 17th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Murle Lindstrom |
| 1962 | French Foreign Legion leaves Algeria |
| 1962 | Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax no-hits New York Mets, 5-0 |
| 1962 | Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters |
| 1962 | Rwanda and Burundi become independent |
| 1961 | Buddy Rogers beats Pat O'Conner in Chicago, to become NWA champ |
| 1961 | Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit |
| 1960 | U.S. stops sugar import from Cuba |
| 1960 | Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo) declares independence from Belgium |
| 1959 | During a game in Wrigley Field, 2 balls were in play at same time |
| 1958 | "No Chemise, Please" by Gerry Grenahan peaks at #24 |
| 1958 | Dutch Government of Drees ends obligatory dismissal of married teachers |
| 1956 | "Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 245 performances |
| 1956 | "Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| 1956 | Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow |
| 1956 | United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128 |
| 1955 | "Johnny Carson Show," debuts on CBS-TV |
| 1954 | Largest check: Internal U.S. Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57 |
| 1954 | Yank pitcher Tom Morgan ties record by hitting 3 batters in 1 inning This was also Bobby Brown's last game; he retired to become a doctor |
| 1953 | 1st Corvette manufactured |
| 1952 | "Guiding Light" soap opera moves from radio to TV |
| 1952 | Hussein Sirri Pasha forms Egyptian government |
| 1951 | "Victor Borge Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| 1951 | NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination |
| 1950 | U.S. General MacArthur visits front in South Korea and asks for U.S. troops |
| 1949 | Dutch troops evacuate Djakarta |
| 1948 | Cleveland Indian Bob Lemon no-hits Detroit Tigers, 2-0 |
| 1948 | Last British armies leave Israel |
| 1948 | Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced, Bell Labs |
| 1945 | 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins |
| 1944 | Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea |
| 1944 | French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands |
| 1944 | Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen |
| 1943 | General MacArthur begins Operation Cartwheel, island-hopping |
| 1942 | 144 U boats (700,000 ton) sunk this month |
| 1942 | Colonel General Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine |
| 1942 | U.S. Mint in New Orleans ceases operation |
| 1942 | U.S. bombs Celebes and Timor |
| 1941 | 61 U-boats (310,000 ton) sunk this month |
| 1941 | Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence |
| 1940 | "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears |
| 1940 | 58 U-boats (284,000 ton) sunk this month |
| 1940 | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service forms |
| 1939 | Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde |
| 1938 | Final game at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, Giants beat Phillies 14-1 |
| 1936 | 'Gone With the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell, published |
| 1936 | 40 hour work week law approved |
| 1936 | Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy |
| 1936 | Margaret Mitchell's novel 'Gone with the Wind' published |
| 1935 | Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
| 1934 | "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party |
| 1934 | French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit |
| 1934 | NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions |
| 1933 | 50,000 demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war |
| 1933 | Card's Dizzy Dean strikes out 17 Cubs to win 8-2 |
| 1933 | U.S. Assay Offices in Helena Mon, Boise, Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah closes |
| 1930 | 1st round-the-world radio broadcast Schenectady NY |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 254 at Lord's vs. England, 320 minutes, 25 fours |
| 1929 | 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY |
| 1928 | Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards |
| 1927 | Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico |
| 1927 | U.S. Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes |
| 1924 | England score 2-503 in day's play vs. South Africa at Lord's |
| 1923 | New Zealand claims Ross Dependency in Antarctica |
| 1916 | 22nd U.S. Golf Open: Chick Evans shoots a 286 at Minikahda Club MINN |
| 1916 | General Douglas Haig reports "The men are in splendid spirits" |
| 1914 | Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa |
| 1913 | 2nd Balkan War begins |
| 1913 | New York Giants score 10 in 10th to beat Phillies 11-10, Hooks Wiltse pitches the first nine innings for New York before wilting, and Christy Mathewson relieves |
| 1911 | Adolphe Messimy appointed French minister of War |
| 1911 | U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri closes |
| 1910 | Russia absorbs Finland |
| 1909 | Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title |
| 1908 | Boston's Cy Young's 2nd no-hitter, beats New York Highlanders, 8-0 |
| 1908 | Giant fireball impacts in Siberia (Tunguska Event) (Enckes comet) |
| 1906 | John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College |
| 1906 | Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act adopted |
| 1902 | Cleveland is 1st AL team to hit 3 consecutive home runs in same inning |
| 1900 | 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks, New Jersey, 326 die |
| 1899 | Jack Hearne takes a hat-trick England vs. Australia at Headingley |
| 1896 | W. S. Hadaway patents electric stove |
| 1894 | Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid |
| 1894 | London Tower Bridge opens |
| 1893 | Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered |
| 1881 | Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia |
| 1879 | Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha leaves Cairo with train full stolen goods |
| 1876 | Serbia declares war on Turkey |
| 1871 | Guatemala revolts for agrarian reforms |
| 1870 | Ada Kepley becomes 1st female law college graduate |
| 1865 | 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty |
| 1863 | Battles in Hanover Pennsylvania: 80 casualties |
| 1863 | Dutch colony Suriname counts population of 33,000 slaves |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Sporting Hill, Pennsylvania |
| 1862 | Battle at Nelson's Farm, Virginia |
| 1862 | Battle at Turkey Bridge Virginia: Confederate assault attack |
| 1862 | Day 6 of 7 Days-Battle of White Oak Swamp Virginia (Frayser's Farm) |
| 1862 | Gustave Flaubert completes "Salammbo" |
| 1861 | CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade |
| 1859 | Charles Blondin is 1st to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope |
| 1834 | Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) |
| 1815 | U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates |
| 1794 | Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio |
| 1755 | Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants |
| 1741 | Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms |
| 1734 | Russian army occupies Danzig |
| 1722 | Hungarian Parliament condemns emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctions |
| 1700 | Gelderland goes on Gregorian calendar (tomorrow is 12/7/1700) |
| 1690 | Battle at Beachy Head: French under Tourville beat Netherlands/English fleet |
| 1688 | Whig-Lords questions prince Willem III van Orange on Protestantism |
| 1648 | French premier cardinal Mazarin calls Saint Louis Chamber together |
| 1643 | Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies |
| 1607 | Annales Ecclesiastici (Scientific History of Catholicism) published |
| 1598 | King Philip II moves to Escorial palace |
| 1596 | English/Dutch fleet reach Cadiz |
| 1559 | Duke of Montgomery wounds king Henri II during tournament |
| 1548 | Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans |
| 1528 | Burgundy army occupies Utrecht |
| 1520 | Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs |
| 1397 | Denmark, Norway and Sweden sign Union of Kalmar under Queen Margaretha |
| 1371 | Arnold II of Horne chosen bishop of Utrecht |
| 1294 | Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland |
| 949 | Otto I the Great gives away bishopdom of Utrecht |
| 833 | Louis, king of Austria, crowned |
| 296 | St. Marcellinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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