2011 | North Korea's Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-il, dies; Kim Jong-un is announced as his father's successor |
2011 | Samsung Electronics files a patent infringement claim against Apple in Germany |
2010 | Dubai holds the closing ceremonies for its 7th International Film Festival |
2010 | Hundreds of investors staged protests in Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in response to the stock exchange's steepest daily fall |
1998 | House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment, charging President Clinton with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice |
1997 | MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy |
1996 | "Once Upon a Matress," opens at Broadhurst New York City for 187 performances |
1995 | Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles and Diana to divorce |
1993 | "Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater New York City after 5 performances |
1993 | Guinee general Lansana re-elected president |
1991 | "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 14 performances |
1991 | 6,000th episode of One Life To Live |
1991 | Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin |
1991 | New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession |
1989 | American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route |
1989 | Larry Bird, of the Celtics, begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games |
1988 | NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars |
1988 | Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation |
1988 | Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated |
1987 | Bruins' Linseman and Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart |
1987 | Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ |
1986 | U.S.S.R. frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile |
1986 | Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency |
1986 | Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500 |
1985 | "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 4 performances |
1985 | Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart |
1985 | STS-61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem |
1984 | China Premier Zhao Ziyang and Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty |
1984 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
1984 | Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people |
1984 | Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach |
1984 | UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
1984 | Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th and youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points |
1980 | Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St. Kitts |
1980 | Iran requests $24 billion in U.S. guarantees to free hostages |
1980 | Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater |
1978 | France performs nuclear test |
1978 | Indira Gandhi ambushed in India |
1977 | Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms |
1976 | Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ |
1976 | John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. India Delhi |
1976 | President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order |
1976 | Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt |
1975 | John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
1975 | Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones |
1974 | "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US |
1974 | Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal |
1974 | Nelson A. Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st Vice President |
1973 | "Molly" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 68 performances |
1973 | Grenada adopts constitution |
1972 | Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon landing series, returns to Earth |
1971 | "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 97 performances |
1971 | CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons) |
1971 | NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp |
1971 | Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres |
1969 | Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released |
1968 | WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1965 | French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
1963 | Zanzibar becomes independent from UK |
1962 | Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland |
1962 | Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission |
1962 | Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched |
1961 | British government begins decimal coin system |
1961 | Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization |
1960 | Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die) |
1960 | Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding) |
1960 | Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight |
1959 | 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0 |
1958 | 1st radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere") |
1957 | "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances |
1955 | Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" |
1953 | KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1952 | Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker" |
1951 | Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands |
1950 | General Eisenhower named NATO commander |
1950 | Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion |
1949 | Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland |
1949 | WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1948 | 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra |
1948 | 8th largest snowfall in New York City history (15.3") |
1948 | Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game |
1948 | Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game |
1946 | Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860," premieres in London |
1946 | War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi |
1945 | Austrian Republic re-establishes |
1945 | Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris |
1943 | Military coup in Bolivia |
1941 | German submarine U-574 sinks |
1941 | Hitler takes complete command of German Army |
1941 | U.S. Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II |
1939 | Russian air and ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa |
1934 | Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 and 1930 |
1933 | Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized |
1932 | British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas |
1931 | Bradman scores 112 Australia vs. South Africa at cricket SCG |
1931 | Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia |
1930 | James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP |
1928 | 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US |
1924 | Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings |
1922 | Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times |
1920 | 1st U.S. indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass) |
1919 | American Meteorological Society found |
1918 | Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (New York Globe) |
1917 | 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto) |
1917 | Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game |
1916 | Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo |
1913 | Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title |
1910 | 1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Balt) |
1910 | Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn |
1907 | 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn |
1907 | Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239 |
1904 | Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905 |
1903 | Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan |
1891 | Canadian Rugby Union forms |
1890 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" |
1889 | Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii |
1888 | Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa |
1887 | Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw |
1884 | Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
1881 | Opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels) |
1871 | Albert L Jones (New York City), patents corrugated paper |
1862 | Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties) |
1861 | Battle of Black Water |
1859 | Grading started for Market Street RR |
1854 | Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams |
1843 | Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England |
1842 | U.S. recognizes independence of Hawaii |
1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin approaches New Zealand |
1828 | South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws |
1823 | Georgia passes 1st U.S. state birth registration law |
1795 | 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky |
1788 | Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam |
1783 | English government of Pitt, Jr. forms |
1777 | Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for winter |
1776 | Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
1732 | Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
1696 | Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris |
1688 | King James II's wife and son flee to France |
1686 | Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe) |
1562 | Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Conde captured |
1551 | Dutch west coast hit by hurricane |
1154 | King Henry II of England crowned |
1055 | Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad |
401 | St. Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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