- 1998 New York Giant General Manager George Young resigns to accept NFL position
- 1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
- 1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer
- 1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
- 1996 Blizzard buries eastern U.S. causing at least 50 deaths
- 1996 For 1st time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1995 "Guys and Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 1143 performances
- 1995 15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000
- 1995 Mike Schmidt is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
- 1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1:51.60)
- 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
- 1994 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis
- 1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point
- 1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
- 1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman
- 1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
- 1991 "Davis Rules," with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
- 1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
- 1991 Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
- 1991 Tamas Darnyi swims world record 400m medley (4:12.36)
- 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 3,486 performances
- 1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 761 performances
- 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
- 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
- 1988 9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit
- 1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points
- 1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
- 1988 U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
- 1987 Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
- 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
- 1986 Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
- 1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
- 1984 NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams
- 1984 Washington Caps Bengt Gustafsson scores 5 goals to beat Philadelphia 7-1
- 1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies
- 1982 Johnny Cash Parkway opens in Hendersonville Tennessee
- 1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM
- 1981 "Pirates of Penzance" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 772 performances
- 1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs. Australia
- 1981 Reds become last team to sign a free agent (Larry Biitner)
- 1980 Islander Glenn Resch's 20th shut-out opponent-Canucks 3-0
- 1980 NCAA decides to sponsor women's championships in 5 sports
- 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
- 1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
- 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
- 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
- 1978 Israeli government votes to 'strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
- 1976 Franklin Mint strikes 1st gold coins for Netherlands Antilles
- 1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
- 1974 E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in New York City
- 1974 Gold hits record $126.50 an ounce in London
- 1974 Loch Ness Monster photographed
- 1974 Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
- 1973 "Tricks" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 8 performances
- 1973 Greg Chappell's best Test bowling, 5-61 vs. Pakistan at SCG
- 1973 Secret peace talks between U.S. and North Vietnam resumed near Paris
- 1973 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 21 for Moon landing
- 1972 Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
- 1972 NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall
- 1971 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California
- 1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established
- 1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV
- 1966 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks
- 1966 Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
- 1966 Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
- 1966 Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
- 1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
- 1964 European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan
- 1964 President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
- 1963 "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art
- 1963 Dmitri Shostakovich' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga
- 1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands)
- 1962 Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance, he came in 50th
- 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters
- 1959 Charles de Gaulle inaugurated as President of France's 5th Republic
- 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana
- 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken
- 1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
- 1955 Furman sets NCAA basketball single-game scoring record with 154 pt
- 1955 Georgia Tech ends Kentucky's 130-game home basketball win streak
- 1955 Louise Sugg wins LPGA LA Golf Open
- 1955 WUNorth Carolina TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio and records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" and "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
- 1953 Indians bar night games with Browns (who refuse to share TV receipts)
- 1953 Rene Mayer forms French government
- 1952 Jordan adopts constitution
- 1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
- 1949 "Make Mine Manhattan" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 429 performances
- 1949 "My Romance" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 95 performances
- 1949 "Small Wonder" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 134 performances
- 1948 Queen Wilhelmina signs death sentence against Ans van Dijk for treason
- 1947 General George Marshall becomes Secretary of State
- 1947 Toronto Maple Leaf rookie Howie Meeker scores 5 goals in a game
- 1945 "Youth for Christ" organizes
- 1941 British Air Marshal Richard Peirse resigns
- 1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar)
- 1938 Bradman scores 107 for South Australia vs. Qld (1st innings)
- 1937 -50 degrees F (-45.6 degrees C), San Jacinto, Nevada (state record)
- 1935 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
- 1934 Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
- 1932 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter
- 1931 Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
- 1930 Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto
- 1929 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies
- 1929 CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City
- 1926 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud becomes king of Hejaz; renames it Saudi Arabia
- 1925 1st all-female U.S. state supreme court appointed, Texas
- 1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
- 1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
- 1918 President Wilson outlines his 14 points for peace after WW I
- 1917 Austria-Hungarian troops conquer Forlani Italy
- 1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
- 1904 Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen
- 1902 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
- 1901 NSW score 918 all out vs South Australia in 560 minutes
- 1897 Michael Eagan wins 1st U.S. national amateur handball championship
- 1894 Columbus World's fair in Chicago destroyed by fire
- 1889 1st Computer patented
- 1889 Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st U.S. patent for a tabulating machine
- 1884 Chrome tanning process for leather patented by Augustus Schultz
- 1878 Secret meeting of King Leopold II's agent and Henry Morton Stanley
- 1870 U.S. mint at Carson City, Nevada begins issuing coins
- 1867 Legislation gives suffrage to DC blacks, despite President Johnson's veto
- 1865 Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower
- 1857 Dion Boucicauly's "Poor of NY," premieres in New York City
- 1856 Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California
- 1853 1st U.S. bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Wash
- 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia
- 1842 Dutch King Willem II charters Technical College Delft
- 1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots and dashes (NJ)
- 1838 Rebellion at Amherstburg, Ontario breaks out
- 1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
- 1830 Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
- 1815 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
- 1806 Cape colony becomes English colony
- 1806 Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon
- 1800 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi
- 1800 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France
- 1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
- 1790 George Washington delivers 1st state of union address (or Jan 4)
- 1760 Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
- 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Stirling
- 1745 England, Austria, Netherlands and Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
- 1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested
- 1705 Georg F Handels 1st opera "Almira," premieres in Hamburg
- 1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (New York Fishing Co)
- 1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
- 1598 Genoa Italy expels Jews
- 1598 Jews are expelled from Genoa Italy
- 1558 French troops under duke de Guise occupy Calais
- 1499 Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown
- 1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France
- 1198 Lotario di Segni elected Pope Innocentius III
- 871 Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
- 794 Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island
- 624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan
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