- 2009 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine
- 1999 Senate begins to try President Clinton on lying under oath and obstruction of justice in the Lewisnky case
- 1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
- 1996 "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 1622 performances
- 1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
- 1995 "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City after 18 performances
- 1995 "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 280 performances
- 1994 South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
- 1994 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
- 1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
- 1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
- 1992 Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan
- 1992 Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
- 1991 "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
- 1990 Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
- 1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
- 1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
- 1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
- 1989 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
- 1989 Cleveland Cavaliers block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
- 1987 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
- 1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
- 1986 Chicago Bears defeat New England Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl XX
- 1986 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
- 1986 STS-61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
- 1986 U.S. president Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
- 1985 "King and I" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 191 performances
- 1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
- 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane WA changes call letters to KLSN (now KAQQ)
- 1985 Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
- 1983 Australia regain the Ashes with a 2-1 series win vs. England
- 1983 Reagan ends U.S. arms embargo against Guatemala
- 1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
- 1982 Islander's Bryan Trottier's 10th career hat trick
- 1980 Minn ends Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends
- 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
- 1978 Angola revises its constitution
- 1977 Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
- 1975 "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 1050 performances
- 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
- 1975 Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in New York City
- 1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
- 1974 Dutch rations gasoline
- 1973 "Purlie" closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 14 performances
- 1973 British Darts Organisation founded in North London
- 1973 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
- 1973 Johnny Watkins bowls six overs 0-21 vs. Pakistan Never again
- 1973 U.S. poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize
- 1973 WNPB TV channel 13 in Marquette, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
- 1972 Los Angeles Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)
- 1972 Lewis F. Powell, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice
- 1972 William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
- 1971 -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
- 1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
- 1969 U.S. Congress doubles president salary
- 1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
- 1968 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
- 1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
- 1966 Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts
- 1966 Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ
- 1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold
- 1964 Bahamas becomes self-governing
- 1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707)
- 1963 1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
- 1962 AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27
- 1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
- 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock
- 1961 1st NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl)-Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16
- 1961 Trucial States (now UAE) issue their 1st postage stamps
- 1959 U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
- 1958 U.S.S.R. shrinks army to 300,000
- 1956 Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs. New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy
- 1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (New York City)
- 1955 WCIQ TV channel 7 in Mount Cheaha, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb
- 1952 French Plevin government falls
- 1950 "Happy as Larry" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 3 performances
- 1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"
- 1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)
- 1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of South California by Pease and Baker
- 1948 U.S. president Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan
- 1947 Australia vs. England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882
- 1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union
- 1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
- 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59
- 1942 WW II siege of Bataan starts
- 1939 U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
- 1936 Tennis champs Helen Moody and Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m)
- 1935 Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in New York City
- 1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
- 1934 Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
- 1933 1st edition of People and Fatherland published in Netherlands
- 1932 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Michigan
- 1930 Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in New York City
- 1929 "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
- 1929 "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
- 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies
- 1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York and London
- 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley, Ill)
- 1925 Musical "Big Boy" with Al Jolson premieres in New York City
- 1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
- 1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
- 1914 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal
- 1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum
- 1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
- 1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
- 1910 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
- 1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG
- 1907 Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in New York City
- 1904 Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st International radio distress signal
- 1903 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blanched Soldier"
- 1903 Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger," premieres in Brussel
- 1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's
- 1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook
- 1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
- 1893 Hermann Sudermanns "Heimat," premieres in Berlin
- 1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
- 1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen
- 1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Valley of Fear"
- 1879 Dutch King Willem II marries Emma von Waldeck-Pyrmont
- 1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock
- 1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson
- 1862 Battle of Manassas Junction, VA
- 1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV
- 1861 Florida troops takeover Ft. Marion at St. Augustine
- 1842 Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
- 1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago
- 1830 1st U.S. Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
- 1822 1st printing in Hawaii
- 1822 Liberia colonized by Americans
- 1817 2nd Bank of U.S. opens
- 1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard and Jeffries)
- 1784 1st U.S. seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
- 1782 1st U.S. commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
- 1761 Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten
- 1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
- 1698 Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England
- 1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp, Netherlands, 1 dies
- 1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno
- 1622 Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
- 1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor
- 1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede
- 1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
- 1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
- 1598 Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne on death of Feodore I
- 1584 Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia and Holy Roman empire
- 1579 England signs an offensive and defensive alliance with Netherland
- 1566 Antonio "Michele" Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
- 1566 Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V
- 1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French
- 1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as king of Portugal
- 754 Pope Stefanus II arrives in Ponthion
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