2010 The first ever HIV infection is announced in the Cook Islands
2010 The United Kingdom gives prisoners serving less than four years the right to vote
2004 President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director
1995 "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 23 performances
1994 KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service
1993 Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
1993 Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
1993 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
1993 Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
1992 "Christmas Carol" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 22 performances
1992 General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
1991 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts
1991 NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
1991 Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago
1991 Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
1990 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
1989 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president
1989 Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA vs. WA)
1989 Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1988 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
1988 Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Caps)
1988 New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
1988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1987 Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1986 U.S. Congress forms Irangate committee
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1984 New Jersey Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
1984 New Jersey Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0
1983 "Peg" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 5 performances
1983 Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured
1983 Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
1981 Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier General James L Dozier
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Mauritania provisional constitution published
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph
1978 OPEC raises oil prices 18%
1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
1977 Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia vs. India at the WACA, aged 41
1977 Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st U.S. TV appearance (SNL)
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1975 1st time New York Islanders shut-out New York Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
1975 Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life
1973 Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
1972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan
1972 WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
1971 "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
1971 Cease fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir
1971 Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
1970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1970 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1969 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
1967 WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland and Supremes concert
1965 British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia
1965 David Levy begins his search for comets
1965 Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine
1963 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
1963 West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places)
1962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
1961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
1961 India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies
1961 Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
1960 "La Plume de Ma Tante" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 835 performances
1960 "Take Me Along" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 448 performances
1960 Pablo Casals' oratorio "El Pesebrio," premieres
1959 "On The Beach," is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain
1959 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
1957 U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
1954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
1954 WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Dmitri Shostakovich' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1953 FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications
1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1949 "Regina" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 86 performances
1949 Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1947 NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
1947 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1946 Bradman and Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea
1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1944 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
1944 Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
1944 M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St
1944 U.S. Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast
1944 U.S. destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
1943 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals
1941 Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
1941 German submarine U-31 sunk
1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1940 British troops occupies Sollum
1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
1938 Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire
1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
1933 B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, England vs. India at Bombay
1933 Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)
1933 Spain's 2nd Government of Lerroux forms
1933 NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
1932 Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll
1928 John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea
1927 U.S. submarine 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
1927 Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437
1926 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
1926 KYA-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions
1926 Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras
1925 Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
1925 Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
1924 1st U.S. diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, New York
1923 Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
1922 Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate
1920 AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it
1920 British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
1919 Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
1914 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
1914 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
1907 Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
1903 At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1902 Frank Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist," premieres in Berlin
1900 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy
1900 New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1895 Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C.
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
1893 Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
1892 Tsjaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette," premieres in St. Petersburg
1887 Georges Feydeaus' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
1885 France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1875 Violent bread riots in Montreal
1865 Franz Schubert's "Unvolendete" Symphony," premieres
1864 Battle of Franklin, TN
1862 General U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1860 Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
1852 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
1832 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire
1821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
1819 Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain
1798 1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
1792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1791 New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City
1788 Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov
1777 France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
1777 ,George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pennsylvania
1745 Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue
1718 England declares war on Spain
1638 French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
1587 Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands
1572 Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
1538 Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1526 Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia
1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
283 St. Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
Monday, December 26, 2011
DECEMBER 18 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is granted temporary powers to pass laws by decree, negating any required review or support from the National Assembly
2010 Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad publicly declares Palestinians have changed; they are now fully committed to non-violence
2009 30,000 Phillipine people remain in temporary shelter as scientists predict the Mount Mayon volcano will erupt in the coming weeks
2005 Bolivia elects leftist Evo Morales president
1996 Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe and England
1996 Television industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system
1994 "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 8 performances
1994 "What's Wrong With this Pic?" closes at Circle in Sq New York City after 12 perf
1994 Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
1994 General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro and Jack Wagner wed
1994 Norman, Couples and Azinger wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Golf Challenge
1994 Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1993 Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
1992 FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
1991 DeForest Kelly (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
1991 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
1990 NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
1990 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Washington D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami and Denver win)
1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
1989 Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa," premieres in New York City
1988 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win and eliminate Giants from playoffs
1988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari
1987 Ivan F. Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
1986 Mr Gates, serves as acting director of CIA
1985 "Jerry's Girls" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 139 performances
1985 U.N. Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1984 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)
1983 NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
1980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
1980 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
1980 IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
1980 Vietnam adopts constitution
1979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1977 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
1977 Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
1976 "A Star is Born," with Barbra Striesand, premieres
1976 Wonder Woman debuts on ABC
1976 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
1974 SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
1973 Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL president
1972 U.S. begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1971 1st Candlelight Processional
1971 CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1970 "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 587 performances
1970 Polish uprising fails
1970 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 "Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 333 performances
1969 Britain abolishes death penalty
1969 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1966 Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1965 "La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St. Theater New York City after 7 performances
1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1965 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
1964 "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 199 performances
1964 "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink)
1964 During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to Funeral Home
1964 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
1963 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
1962 Dmitri Shostakovich' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
1961 For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu
1961 KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
1960 General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid
1959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of New York Titans (AFL)
1958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
1956 "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
1956 Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai
1956 Japan admitted to UN
1956 Phil Rizzuto signs as New York Yankee radio-TV announcer
1953 KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 KMID TV channel 2 in Midland and Odessa, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president
1949 Philadelphia Eagles beat Los Angeles Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
1948 Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election
1948 WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana (NBC) begins broadcasting
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
1946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
1945 Uruguay joins UN
1944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)
1944 Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
1941 German submarine U-434 sinks
1941 Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
1939 Finnish army recaptures Aglajarvi
1936 1st giant panda imported into US
1936 Queensland cricket all out for 49 vs. Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
1936 Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to U.S. from China, arrives in SF
1935 Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia
1935 Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
1930 Bradman scores 258 NSW vs. South Australia, 289 minutes, 37 fours
1923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
1920 1st U.S. postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
1917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
1905 H V Hordern takes 8-81 in 2nd innings of F-C debut (NSW vs. Qld)
1899 Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
1898 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
1892 "Nutcracker Suite," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, premieres
1892 Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres
1890 Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda
1878 French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed
1869 Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
1865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
1865 1st U.S. cattle importation law passed
1862 Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
1858 Passy, at Paris: 1st "Samedi soir" i/d villa of lovers Rossini
1849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
1839 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in U.S., John Draper, New York City
1832 Charles Darwin visits Vurland
1813 British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812
1799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
1796 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
1783 English king George III fires government of Portland
1777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1774 Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia
1719 Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"
1621 English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
1603 Admiral Steven van der Haghens fleet departs to East-Indies
1406 Anton van Bourgondies becomes duke of Brabant
1352 Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
1118 Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden
2010 Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad publicly declares Palestinians have changed; they are now fully committed to non-violence
2009 30,000 Phillipine people remain in temporary shelter as scientists predict the Mount Mayon volcano will erupt in the coming weeks
2005 Bolivia elects leftist Evo Morales president
1996 Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe and England
1996 Television industry executives agree to adopt a ratings system
1994 "Comedy Tonight" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 8 performances
1994 "What's Wrong With this Pic?" closes at Circle in Sq New York City after 12 perf
1994 Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges
1994 General Hospital stars Kristina Malandro and Jack Wagner wed
1994 Norman, Couples and Azinger wins LPGA Wendy's 3-Tour Golf Challenge
1994 Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1993 Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
1992 FCC vote 4-1 to allow Infinity to purchase Cook Inlet stations
1991 DeForest Kelly (Dr. McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
1991 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
1990 NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
1990 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St. Petersburg, and Washington D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami and Denver win)
1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
1989 Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa," premieres in New York City
1988 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win and eliminate Giants from playoffs
1988 Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
1987 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future president, marries Asif Ali Zardari
1987 Ivan F. Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
1986 Mr Gates, serves as acting director of CIA
1985 "Jerry's Girls" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 139 performances
1985 U.N. Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
1984 73rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats USA in Gothenburg (4-1)
1983 NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
1982 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
1980 Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Square Garden
1980 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
1980 IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
1980 Vietnam adopts constitution
1979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1978 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1977 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
1977 Dutch Antilles: premier Boy Rozendal points independence off
1976 "A Star is Born," with Barbra Striesand, premieres
1976 Wonder Woman debuts on ABC
1976 Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
1974 SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
1973 Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
1973 Yankees sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL president
1972 U.S. begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
1971 1st Candlelight Processional
1971 CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
1971 People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
1970 "Me Nobody Knows" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 587 performances
1970 Polish uprising fails
1970 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 "Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 333 performances
1969 Britain abolishes death penalty
1969 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1966 Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1965 "La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St. Theater New York City after 7 performances
1965 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
1965 Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
1964 "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 199 performances
1964 "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink)
1964 During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to Funeral Home
1964 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6)
1963 Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
1962 Dmitri Shostakovich' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1962 WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles
1961 For 2nd cons year, AP names Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
1961 India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu
1961 KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
1960 General Meeting of United Nations condemns apartheid
1959 Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of New York Titans (AFL)
1958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1958 1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
1956 "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV
1956 Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai
1956 Japan admitted to UN
1956 Phil Rizzuto signs as New York Yankee radio-TV announcer
1953 KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 KMID TV channel 2 in Midland and Odessa, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Ellis W Ryan resigns as Cleveland Indians president
1949 Philadelphia Eagles beat Los Angeles Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
1948 Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election
1948 WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana (NBC) begins broadcasting
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Optissima Pax
1946 TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
1945 Uruguay joins UN
1944 Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" and "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Philippines)
1944 Nazi occupiers of Amsterdam destroy electricity plants
1941 German submarine U-434 sinks
1941 Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
1939 Finnish army recaptures Aglajarvi
1936 1st giant panda imported into US
1936 Queensland cricket all out for 49 vs. Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
1936 Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to U.S. from China, arrives in SF
1935 Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia
1935 Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1932 Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
1930 Bradman scores 258 NSW vs. South Australia, 289 minutes, 37 fours
1923 International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
1920 1st U.S. postage stamps printed without the words United States or US
1917 Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
1915 President Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
1905 H V Hordern takes 8-81 in 2nd innings of F-C debut (NSW vs. Qld)
1899 Field Marshal Lord Roberts appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
1898 Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
1892 "Nutcracker Suite," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, premieres
1892 Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres
1890 Lugards expedition to Mengo/Kampala, Uganda
1878 French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed
1869 Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game
1865 13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
1865 1st U.S. cattle importation law passed
1862 Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)
1859 South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
1858 Passy, at Paris: 1st "Samedi soir" i/d villa of lovers Rossini
1849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
1839 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in U.S., John Draper, New York City
1832 Charles Darwin visits Vurland
1813 British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812
1799 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
1796 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1787 New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
1783 English king George III fires government of Portland
1777 1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
1774 Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia
1719 Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"
1621 English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation
1603 Admiral Steven van der Haghens fleet departs to East-Indies
1406 Anton van Bourgondies becomes duke of Brabant
1352 Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
1118 Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden
DECEMBER 19 EVENTS IN HISTORY
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
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
DECEMBER 20 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology announces it has developed the first ever spherical robot with telescopic arms
2010 In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko claims he won the presidential election with 79% of the vote; hundreds protesting the vote were arrested
2009 Nearly 100 people are killed by a runaway truck at a market in Kogi State, Nigeria
2005 New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days
1999 Portugal returns Macau to China
1998 Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge
1995 "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 14 performances
1995 American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
1993 Donald Trump weds Marla Maples
1992 Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
1992 Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia
1991 NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators
1991 Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
1990 Pentagon warns Saddam that U.S. air power is ready to attack on 1/15
1990 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million
1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
1989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
1989 U.S. troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London
1988 NBC signs lease to stay in New York City, 33 more years
1988 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka
1987 "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1987 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
1987 Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
1987 Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York
1985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
1985 Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
1985 Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1984 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 El Salvador adopts constitution
1983 Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
1983 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
1981 "Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1522 performances
1981 Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) and most turnovers (10)
1981 Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
1981 Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in New York City
1980 NBC broadcasts New York Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
1980 U.S.S.R. formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
1978 H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
1977 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
1977 RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
1976 "Music Is" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 8 performances
1976 Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1975 Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
1975 Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
1974 Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
1974 George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the United Kingdom
1973 AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
1973 Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms
1973 Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
1972 Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in New York City
1971 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
1970 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1967 "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres
1967 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam
1967 Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
1966 Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established
1966 NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
1966 Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
1963 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville
1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
1962 D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
1962 Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany
1959 Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India vs. Australia at Kanpur
1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service
1956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
1956 Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
1953 KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, Idaho (CBS) 1st broadcasting
1953 KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY
1949 Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres
1948 Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
1946 Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1945 Rationg of auto tires ends in US
1944 Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market
1944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1944 Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
1944 Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London
1943 "International" is no longer U.S.S.R. National Anthem
1942 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
1941 Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon
1941 Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1940 Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
1939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1937 Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
1935 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
1933 Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire
1932 Queensland all out 74 vs. Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
1930 Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 minutes WI vs. Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
1929 Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
1929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
1928 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que
1928 Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St. New York City
1926 Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring
1926 Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
1926 Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in New York City
1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.)
1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
1921 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1920 Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut vs. England SCG
1920 Bob Hope became an American citizen
1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 U.S. House of Representatives restricts immigration
1918 Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in New York City
1917 Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
1915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
1912 J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in New York City
1912 Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faote Maroe," premieres in Paris
1907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
1906 Venezuela (under vice-president Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
1900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1894 England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket
1893 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
1892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
1892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, New York
1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
1883 International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1880 Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
1880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1865 De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
1861 Battle of Dranesville, VA
1860 South Carolina votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
1850 Hawaiian post office established
1830 England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium
1823 Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50
1803 Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to U.S. for $27M
1790 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
1780 England declares war on Netherlands
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk
1699 Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
1694 Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
1688 Prince Willem III's troops pull into London
1669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery
1661 Corporation Act enforced in England
1626 Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg
1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
1600 Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
1585 English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen
1448 Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
1046 Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI,
1046 Benedictus IX and Silvester III and names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II
69 General Vespasianus occupies Rome
2010 In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko claims he won the presidential election with 79% of the vote; hundreds protesting the vote were arrested
2009 Nearly 100 people are killed by a runaway truck at a market in Kogi State, Nigeria
2005 New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days
1999 Portugal returns Macau to China
1998 Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge
1995 "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 14 performances
1995 American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
1993 Donald Trump weds Marla Maples
1992 Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
1992 Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia
1991 NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators
1991 Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
1990 Pentagon warns Saddam that U.S. air power is ready to attack on 1/15
1990 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million
1990 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
1989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
1989 U.S. troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London
1988 NBC signs lease to stay in New York City, 33 more years
1988 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka
1987 "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
1987 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
1987 Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
1987 Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York
1985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
1985 Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
1985 Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
1984 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
1984 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 El Salvador adopts constitution
1983 Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
1983 New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
1983 PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
1981 "Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1522 performances
1981 Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) and most turnovers (10)
1981 Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
1981 Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in New York City
1980 NBC broadcasts New York Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
1980 U.S.S.R. formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
1978 H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
1977 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
1977 RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
1976 "Music Is" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 8 performances
1976 Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1975 Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
1975 Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
1974 Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
1974 George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the United Kingdom
1973 AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
1973 Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms
1973 Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
1972 Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in New York City
1971 Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
1970 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1967 "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres
1967 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam
1967 Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
1966 Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established
1966 NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
1966 Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1966 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1963 Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
1963 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville
1963 Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
1962 D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
1962 Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
1960 Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany
1959 Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India vs. Australia at Kanpur
1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service
1956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
1956 Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
1953 KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, Idaho (CBS) 1st broadcasting
1953 KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY
1949 Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres
1948 Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
1946 Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1945 Rationg of auto tires ends in US
1944 Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market
1944 Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
1944 Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
1944 Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London
1943 "International" is no longer U.S.S.R. National Anthem
1942 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
1941 Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon
1941 Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1940 Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
1939 Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1937 Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
1935 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
1933 Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire
1932 Queensland all out 74 vs. Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
1930 Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 minutes WI vs. Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
1929 Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
1929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
1928 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que
1928 Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St. New York City
1926 Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring
1926 Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
1926 Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in New York City
1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1922 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.)
1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
1921 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1920 Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut vs. England SCG
1920 Bob Hope became an American citizen
1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 U.S. House of Representatives restricts immigration
1918 Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in New York City
1917 Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
1915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
1912 J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in New York City
1912 Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faote Maroe," premieres in Paris
1907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
1906 Venezuela (under vice-president Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
1900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
1894 England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket
1893 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
1892 Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
1892 Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, New York
1891 Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
1883 International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
1880 Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
1880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
1879 Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
1865 De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
1862 Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
1861 Battle of Dranesville, VA
1860 South Carolina votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
1850 Hawaiian post office established
1830 England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium
1823 Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50
1803 Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to U.S. for $27M
1790 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
1780 England declares war on Netherlands
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk
1699 Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
1694 Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
1688 Prince Willem III's troops pull into London
1669 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery
1661 Corporation Act enforced in England
1626 Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg
1606 Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
1600 Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
1585 English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen
1448 Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
1192 Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
1046 Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI,
1046 Benedictus IX and Silvester III and names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II
69 General Vespasianus occupies Rome
DECEMBER 21 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 The engagement of Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall, a Rugby Union player, is announced
1997 Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
1997 Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
1997 Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
1997 Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
1997 Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge
1996 Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
1995 Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1995 San Francisco Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City
1992 Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
1991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1991 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
1991 U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
1990 Steve and Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW vs. WA
1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
1989 Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
1988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1988 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1987 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched
1986 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1986 Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
1984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
1984 U.S.S.R. launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
1983 "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 669 performances
1983 Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
1983 Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in New York City
1983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
1983 NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
1981 Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
1980 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1978 "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City
1978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder
1976 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
1976 Patricia R. Harris named secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1976 U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child
1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 51 performances
1975 "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 307 performances
1975 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
1975 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
1975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
1973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, U.S. and U.S.S.R. meet in Geneva
1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1971 U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1970 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme on theEd Sullivan Show
1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash premiere together in California
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
1962 Angolin leaves Comecon
1962 U.S. and Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Ready Teddy"
1961 John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda
1959 10th largest snowfall in New York City history (13.7")
1959 Citizens of Deerfield, Illinois block building of interracial housing
1959 Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France
1957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
1954 Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1953 KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1952 WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 "Out of This World" opens at New Century Theater New York City for 157 performances
1950 Cole Porter's musical "Out of this World," premieres in New York City
1949 Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
1948 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
1948 State of Eire, formerly Irish Free State, declares its independence
1946 "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater New York City after 20 performances
1946 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres
1946 Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis
1945 "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 219 performances
1945 Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in New York City
1944 Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1942 U.S. Supreme Court declares Nevada separation legal
1941 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
1941 Chicago bears win the NFL championship
1941 David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
1941 Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
1939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
1937 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Australia
1936 Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80
1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania
1933 Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1932 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1932 Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
1929 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
1925 Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1925 Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against New Zealand
1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional
1920 Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in New York City
1919 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1918 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell and Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters and $15,000
1915 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
1914 "Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts
1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin)
1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World
1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
1910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1909 Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in New York City
1909 University of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1907 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
1900 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium
1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1890 Pim Mulier 1st and only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
1866 Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah
1849 1st U.S. skating club formed in Philadelphia
1835 HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore
1788 Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
1784 John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State
1762 James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
1688 Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
1650 Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
1620 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1582 Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
1561 Archbishop Granvelle installed
1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
1997 Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season
1997 Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game
1997 Lexus Senior Golf Challenge
1997 Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges
1997 Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge
1996 Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning
1995 Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1995 San Francisco Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000
1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City
1992 Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
1991 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
1991 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
1991 U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner
1991 Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
1990 Steve and Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW vs. WA
1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
1989 Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
1988 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
1988 New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
1988 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
1987 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
1987 Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched
1986 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1986 Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
1985 Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1985 Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
1984 Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
1984 U.S.S.R. launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
1983 "Tap Dance Kid" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 669 performances
1983 Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
1983 Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in New York City
1983 NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
1983 NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule
1981 Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
1980 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
1979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
1978 "Broadway Musical" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City
1978 Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder
1976 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
1976 Patricia R. Harris named secretary of Housing and Urban Development
1976 U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child
1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 "Hello, Dolly" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 51 performances
1975 "Very Good Eddie" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 307 performances
1975 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
1975 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
1975 Madagascar adopts constitution
1975 Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57
1973 Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, U.S. and U.S.S.R. meet in Geneva
1972 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
1971 U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
1970 WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme on theEd Sullivan Show
1969 Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
1968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1968 David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash premiere together in California
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
1962 Angolin leaves Comecon
1962 U.S. and Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive
1961 Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Ready Teddy"
1961 John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda
1959 10th largest snowfall in New York City history (13.7")
1959 Citizens of Deerfield, Illinois block building of interracial housing
1959 Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
1959 Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988)
1958 Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France
1957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
1954 Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
1953 KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
1952 WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 "Out of This World" opens at New Century Theater New York City for 157 performances
1950 Cole Porter's musical "Out of this World," premieres in New York City
1949 Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia
1948 O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
1948 State of Eire, formerly Irish Free State, declares its independence
1946 "If the Shoe Fits" closes at Century Theater New York City after 20 performances
1946 Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
1946 Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres
1946 Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis
1945 "Billion Dollar Baby" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 219 performances
1945 Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in New York City
1944 Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1942 U.S. Supreme Court declares Nevada separation legal
1941 Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point
1941 Chicago bears win the NFL championship
1941 David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 German submarine U-567 sinks
1941 Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears)
1939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"
1937 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)
1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Australia
1936 Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80
1933 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania
1933 Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
1933 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1932 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1932 Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach
1929 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1926 Soccer team DOS Struggle forms
1925 Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1925 Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against New Zealand
1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
1921 Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional
1920 Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in New York City
1919 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1918 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell and Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters and $15,000
1915 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
1914 "Tillie's Punctured Romance," 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts
1914 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin)
1913 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World
1912 Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
1910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1909 Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in New York City
1909 University of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1907 Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
1900 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin
1898 Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium
1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
1890 Pim Mulier 1st and only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
1866 Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
1864 General Sherman conquers Savannah
1849 1st U.S. skating club formed in Philadelphia
1835 HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand)
1829 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore
1788 Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam
1784 John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State
1762 James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
1688 Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
1650 Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
1620 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1582 Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583
1561 Archbishop Granvelle installed
1163 Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods
DECEMBER 22 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 The World Bank officially ends financing Cote d'Ivoire
2010 An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yards for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 18 performances
1994 Italian government of Berlusconi resigns
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts,
1989 -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 Million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
1986 India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1985 STS-51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG
1983 Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1982 William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City
1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior)
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1976 East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres
1965 Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth
1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1937 Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic
1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St. Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City
1923 Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1915 Federal Baseball League disolved
1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1910 U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued
1907 Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 United States Golf Association forms (New York City)
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1886 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts)
1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1832 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1775 Continental Navy organized with 7 ships
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1465 Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
401 St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
2010 An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yards for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 18 performances
1994 Italian government of Berlusconi resigns
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts,
1989 -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 Million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
1986 India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1985 STS-51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG
1983 Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1982 William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City
1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior)
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1976 East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres
1965 Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth
1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1937 Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic
1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St. Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City
1923 Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1915 Federal Baseball League disolved
1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1910 U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued
1907 Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 United States Golf Association forms (New York City)
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1886 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts)
1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1832 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1775 Continental Navy organized with 7 ships
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1465 Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
401 St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
DECEMBER 23 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 The World Bank officially ends financing Cote d'Ivoire
2010 An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yards for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 18 performances
1994 Italian government of Berlusconi resigns
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts,
1989 -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 Million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
1986 India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1985 STS-51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG
1983 Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1982 William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City
1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior)
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1976 East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres
1965 Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth
1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1937 Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic
1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St. Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City
1923 Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1915 Federal Baseball League disolved
1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1910 U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued
1907 Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 United States Golf Association forms (New York City)
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1886 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts)
1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1832 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1775 Continental Navy organized with 7 ships
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1465 Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
401 St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
2010 An important peer-reviewed study of the spatial memory of bumblebees published the Biology Letters journal of the Royal Society is written by two eight year-olds
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yards for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 18 performances
1994 Italian government of Berlusconi resigns
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts,
1989 -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 Million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
1986 India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1985 STS-51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG
1983 Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
1982 William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City
1981 Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior)
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1976 East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1970 Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres
1965 Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1965 Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth
1959 NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters
1941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1939 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1937 Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic
1936 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1934 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St. Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City
1923 Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1915 Federal Baseball League disolved
1915 Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
1910 U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued
1907 Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1894 Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres
1894 United States Golf Association forms (New York City)
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1888 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1886 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City)
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres
1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts)
1870 Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1832 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1775 Continental Navy organized with 7 ships
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1465 Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
401 St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
DECEMBER 23 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 A male Algerian is fined by a court in Nice for insulting the French national flag; this was the first such penalty ever to be administered
2010 Some Greeks in the Greek Parliament protest sweeping cuts approved in the budget
1997 Chicago Bull's coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins
1997 Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1997 Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing
1997 U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
1997 Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow
1996 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
1991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1990 "Lettice and Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 284 performances
1990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
1986 Rutan and Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
1984 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
1983 Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
1981 Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033
1980 Sam Shepard's "True West," premieres in New York City
1979 New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1975 Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents
1974 "Good News" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 16 performances
1974 Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen
1973 "Young and Restless" premieres on TV
1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1973 French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
1972 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
1972 Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India vs. England at Delhi
1972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1972 "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
1970 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
1970 French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970 NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1968 1st U.S. case of space motion sickness
1968 82 members of U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea
1968 Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
1968 North Korea releases Pueblo crew
1967 Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy
1966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
1964 India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
1963 Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
1963 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
1962 Cuba starts returning U.S. prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
1962 Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
1961 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies
1960 De Quay's Dutch government falls
1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
1958 "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 38 performances
1958 Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco
1957 Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa
1953 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1951 Last Belgian communities get electricity
1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs
1946 Belgian Council of State forms
1946 Highest ridership in New York City subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1946 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
1945 Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London
1945 Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
1944 Beginning of harsh winter
1943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York
1943 General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1942 Allies air attack on Den Helder
1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1941 British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
1941 Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
1940 John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in New York City
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Summa
1939 South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1938 Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz"
1933 Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
1933 Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
1930 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York City
1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
1926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1925 Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
1923 Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1922 Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1920 King George V signs Home Rule Act
1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1917 3 British warships come close to Holland
1915 J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in New York City
1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
1912 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
1912 Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
1911 Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich
1911 Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
1909 Albert becomes king of Belgians
1907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
1899 Field Marshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa
1899 Southampton: field marshal lord Roberts departures to South Africa
1899 Tentative Turkish and German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway
1894 Debussy's ballet "L'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris
1893 Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
1888 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
1876 Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
1867 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
1862 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
1852 1st Chinese theater in U.S., Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
1832 Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
1823 "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
1788 Maryland votes to cede a 10 mile area for District of Columbia
1783 Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief
1779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
1776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
1751 France sets plan to tax clergymen
1728 Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin
1724 Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Austria / Netherlands
1715 Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund
1690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
1688 English king Jacob II flees to France
1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
1620 French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
1569 St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1482 Peace of Atrecht
619 Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
2010 Some Greeks in the Greek Parliament protest sweeping cuts approved in the budget
1997 Chicago Bull's coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins
1997 Colorado Avalanche Jari Kurri is 8th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1997 Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing
1997 U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
1997 Woody Allen, 62 weds Soon-Yi Previn 27, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow
1996 4 women ordained priests in Jamaica, 1st in 330-year Anglican history
1994 Baseball owners impose salary cap, fiercely opposed by players
1991 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1990 "Lettice and Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 284 performances
1990 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
1986 Rutan and Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
1984 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG
1983 Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
1981 Boycott becomes leading run-scorer in Test Crickets with 8033
1980 Sam Shepard's "True West," premieres in New York City
1979 New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Islanders scored 7 goals in 1 period against New York Rangers, Trottier scores 8 points vs Rangers, 5 goals-NHL record 6 pts in 1 period
1975 Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
1975 Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents
1974 "Good News" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 16 performances
1974 Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjotakovitsj' Michelangelo-liederen
1973 "Young and Restless" premieres on TV
1973 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
1973 French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
1972 6.25 Earthquake destroys central Managua Nicaragua, 10,000 die
1972 Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India vs. England at Delhi
1972 Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1972 "Immaculate Reception" Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
1970 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)
1970 French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970 NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1968 1st U.S. case of space motion sickness
1968 82 members of U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea
1968 Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
1968 North Korea releases Pueblo crew
1967 Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy
1966 Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
1964 India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
1963 Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig"
1963 Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
1962 Cuba starts returning U.S. prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
1962 Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
1961 KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, California (IND) begins broadcasting
1961 Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies
1960 De Quay's Dutch government falls
1960 King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
1958 "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 38 performances
1958 Abdallah Ibrahim forms government of Morocco
1957 Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa
1953 Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim "Junior" Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1951 Last Belgian communities get electricity
1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs
1946 Belgian Council of State forms
1946 Highest ridership in New York City subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1946 University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne U, because they may use a black player in their basketball game
1945 Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premieres in London
1945 Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
1944 Beginning of harsh winter
1943 1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel and Gretel), Schenectady, New York
1943 General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1942 Allies air attack on Den Helder
1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1941 British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
1941 Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
1940 John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in New York City
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Summa
1939 South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1938 Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz"
1933 Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death
1933 Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
1930 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York City
1928 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
1926 KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1925 Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
1923 Yankees pitcher Carl Mays sold to Reds for $85,000
1922 BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1922 Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
1920 Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
1920 King George V signs Home Rule Act
1919 1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1919 Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1917 3 British warships come close to Holland
1915 J Kern/S Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie," premieres in New York City
1913 President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
1912 1st "Keystone Kops" film, titled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
1912 Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
1911 Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire," premieres in Munich
1911 Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
1909 Albert becomes king of Belgians
1907 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
1899 Field Marshal Lord Roberts departs Southampton to South Africa
1899 Southampton: field marshal lord Roberts departures to South Africa
1899 Tentative Turkish and German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway
1894 Debussy's ballet "L'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres in Paris
1893 Opera "Hansel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
1888 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear
1876 Turkey's 1st constitution proclaimed
1867 1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
1862 Union General Ben "Beast" Butler is proclaimed a "felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind" by Jefferson Davis
1852 1st Chinese theater in U.S., Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
1834 Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
1832 Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender
1823 "Visit from St. Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
1788 Maryland votes to cede a 10 mile area for District of Columbia
1783 Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief
1779 Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
1776 Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
1776 Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
1751 France sets plan to tax clergymen
1728 Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin
1724 Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Austria / Netherlands
1715 Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund
1690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
1688 English king Jacob II flees to France
1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
1620 French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII
1569 St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1482 Peace of Atrecht
619 Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
DECEMBER 24 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 Heavy snowfall causes large-scale disruptions in Europe
2010 In a new deal, France is contracted to build two warships for Russia
1997 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
1994 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
1992 President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair
1990 Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon and Barry Jones
1990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
1989 Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
1986 Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
1984 Palace coup in Mauritania
1982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
1981 Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa and Lisa Evers marry
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1979 1st Ariane-rocket launched
1974 Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
1973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
1970 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
1970 Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
1968 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
1968 WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1966 "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 12 performances
1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
1963 Greek and Turks riot in Cyprus
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
1960 Dutch bishops question papacy values
1956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
1956 Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
1954 Council for the Children Protection forms in Netherlands
1954 Laos gains its independence
1953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
1953 KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Rene Coty elected President of France
1953 Wellington-Auckland (New Zealand) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1951 1st televised opera (Amahl and Night Visitor)
1951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via United Nations
1950 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28
1948 1st U.S. house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Massachusetts)
1948 Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
1946 4th French republic established
1946 U.S. General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1943 Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London
1942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1942 Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk
1941 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan
1937 Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
1936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, California
1935 Bradman scores 233 in 191 minutes, SA vs. Queensland, 28 fours 1 six
1934 Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430
1933 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1932 Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
1930 Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
1930 F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
1928 George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St. New York City
1927 Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 and took 5-36 vs. S Af
1924 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
1924 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
1924 Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St. Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th New York City
1924 School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
1922 BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"
1922 London Coloseum opens
1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City)
1914 German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1912 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
1904 German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
1900 Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
1898 Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam
1894 Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
1894 Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
1893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1889 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
1884 Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1874 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
1865 Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
1864 Battle of Gordonsville, Virginia
1860 Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in New York City
1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
1851 U.S. Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
1818 Franz Xaver Gruber composes "Silent Night"
1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1799 Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered
1798 Russia and England sign Second anti-French Coalition
1724 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1715 Swedish troops occupy Norway
1651 John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope
1593 Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
1568 Uprising of Morisco's in Granada
1565 Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition
1515 Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
1476 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy
1294 Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII
1046 Pope Clement II, Suitger, elected
640 John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
2010 In a new deal, France is contracted to build two warships for Russia
1997 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
1994 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
1992 President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair
1990 Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon and Barry Jones
1990 Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
1989 Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1989 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
1986 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
1986 Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
1984 Palace coup in Mauritania
1982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic
1981 Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa and Lisa Evers marry
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1980 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
1979 1st Ariane-rocket launched
1974 Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year
1973 Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
1970 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
1970 Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
1968 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
1968 WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
1967 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1966 "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 12 performances
1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1964 Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
1963 Greek and Turks riot in Cyprus
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1961 Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
1960 Dutch bishops question papacy values
1956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
1956 Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
1954 Council for the Children Protection forms in Netherlands
1954 Laos gains its independence
1953 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
1953 KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Rene Coty elected President of France
1953 Wellington-Auckland (New Zealand) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1951 1st televised opera (Amahl and Night Visitor)
1951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via United Nations
1950 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28
1948 1st U.S. house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Massachusetts)
1948 Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship
1946 4th French republic established
1946 U.S. General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
1943 Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London
1942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany
1942 Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk
1941 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan
1937 Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
1936 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, California
1935 Bradman scores 233 in 191 minutes, SA vs. Queensland, 28 fours 1 six
1934 Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430
1933 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France)
1932 Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
1930 Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced
1930 F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid
1928 George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St. New York City
1927 Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 and took 5-36 vs. S Af
1924 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
1924 Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
1924 Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St. Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th New York City
1924 School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
1922 BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"
1922 London Coloseum opens
1920 Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City)
1914 German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1912 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
1910 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
1906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
1904 German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
1900 Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam
1898 Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam
1894 Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm
1894 Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes
1893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
1889 Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
1884 Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1874 Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
1865 Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
1864 Battle of Gordonsville, Virginia
1860 Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in New York City
1851 Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
1851 U.S. Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1818 "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
1818 Franz Xaver Gruber composes "Silent Night"
1814 Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed
1799 Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered
1798 Russia and England sign Second anti-French Coalition
1724 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1715 Swedish troops occupy Norway
1651 John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope
1593 Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed
1568 Uprising of Morisco's in Granada
1565 Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition
1515 Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
1476 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy
1294 Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII
1046 Pope Clement II, Suitger, elected
640 John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
DECEMBER 25 EVENTS IN HISTORY
2010 The first snowfall in the last 128 years occurs in the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia; 500 flights are affected
2010 Vanuatu experiences a 7.3 magnitude earthquake; a tsunami warning is issued for the region and later cancelled after a minor tsunami occurred
2003 Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport
1997 For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
1997 Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show
1994 "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 8 performances
1991 Last day of a washout Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R.
1990 "Godfather III" premieres
1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8 degrees C, coldest temp ever recorded
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
1984 NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
1983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
1982 Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians
1979 Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs. Pakistan at Kanpur
1979 U.S.S.R. airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt
1976 Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
1976 Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia
1973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
1972 England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi
1971 Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
1971 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
1969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
1969 India all out for 163 at Madras vs. Australia, Ashley Mallett 5-91
1968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
1967 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged
1964 "Goldfinger" premieres in US
1964 George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans
1963 Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
1959 Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set
1959 Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
1958 Alan Freed's Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular opens
1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder
1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
1955 Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music and popular music
1954 WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
1951 1st Christmas Day in Test Crickets, Australia vs. WI at Adelaide
1951 West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket
1950 Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
1950 Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
1950 Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey and smuggled back to Scotland
1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1942 Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
1942 British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1940 Bradman out 1st ball for SA vs. Victoria before 6213
1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey," premieres in New York City
1939 Grimmett and Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
1938 George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
1937 Queensland all out for 93 vs. SA in front of 10,436
1936 Belgian bishops condemn fascism and communism
1936 Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA vs. Queensland before 4,865
1934 Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 vs. Qld before 6,180
1934 Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth," premieres in New York City
1933 Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
1933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1933 Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria vs. Tasmania at Hobart
1932 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes
1931 Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,697
1931 Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria vs. Tas at Hobart
1931 New Yorks's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1930 Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York opens
1930 Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
1930 Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
1929 Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
1928 Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic vs. NSW) 14,887
1928 NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan 1926-1989
1923 Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St. New York City
1922 Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
1917 "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City
1917 Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up," premieres in New York City
1915 Irving Berlin and Harry B Smith's musical premieres in New York City
1914 Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans)
1911 Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in New York City
1908 Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns and becomes 1st black heavyweight champ
1905 V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste," premieres in New York City
1902 Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes," premieres in New York City
1901 Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits
1900 Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
1899 Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade
1896 "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football
1888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
1875 Lambs Club in New York forms
1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1848 New Haven Railroad opens
1843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, New York City)
1837 Battle of Okeechobee-U.S. forces defeat Seminole Indians
1835 Charles Darwin company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand
1834 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile
1833 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia
1832 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St. Martin at Cape Receiver
1831 Louisiana and Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
1830 Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres
1818 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
1818 Handel's Messiah, U.S. premieres in Boston
1776 Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians
1775 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
1758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1745 Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden
1745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
1741 Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale
1717 Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed
1688 English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II
1683 English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
1651 Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
1641 Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden and France
1640 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
1621 Governor William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas
1613 Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
1582 Zealand/Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th
1522 Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
1130 Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of Sicily
1121 Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
1101 Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Netherlands-Lutherans
1100 Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
1066 William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
1048 Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
1046 Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III RC-German emperor
1000 Monarch Istvan crowned king of Hungary
999 Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne
979 Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom
969 Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
967 John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor
875 Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
800 Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor
795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
604 Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers
597 England adopts Julian calendar
498 French king Clovis baptises himself
390 Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica
352 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
2010 Vanuatu experiences a 7.3 magnitude earthquake; a tsunami warning is issued for the region and later cancelled after a minor tsunami occurred
2003 Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport
1997 For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
1997 Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show
1994 "Comedy Tonight" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 8 performances
1991 Last day of a washout Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R.
1990 "Godfather III" premieres
1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8 degrees C, coldest temp ever recorded
1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
1984 NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
1983 1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
1982 Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians
1979 Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs. Pakistan at Kanpur
1979 U.S.S.R. airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
1977 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President Sadat in Egypt
1976 Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
1976 Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
1974 Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia
1973 Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
1972 England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi
1971 Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
1971 Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
1971 Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
1969 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
1969 India all out for 163 at Madras vs. Australia, Ashley Mallett 5-91
1968 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
1967 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged
1964 "Goldfinger" premieres in US
1964 George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans
1963 Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
1959 Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set
1959 Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
1958 Alan Freed's Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular opens
1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder
1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
1955 Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music and popular music
1954 WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
1951 1st Christmas Day in Test Crickets, Australia vs. WI at Adelaide
1951 West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket
1950 Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
1950 Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
1950 Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in 1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey and smuggled back to Scotland
1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1946 Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1942 Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to death
1942 British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
1941 Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1940 Bradman out 1st ball for SA vs. Victoria before 6213
1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey," premieres in New York City
1939 Grimmett and Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
1939 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
1938 George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
1937 Queensland all out for 93 vs. SA in front of 10,436
1936 Belgian bishops condemn fascism and communism
1936 Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA vs. Queensland before 4,865
1934 Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 vs. Qld before 6,180
1934 Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth," premieres in New York City
1933 Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
1933 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
1933 Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria vs. Tasmania at Hobart
1932 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes
1931 Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,697
1931 Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria vs. Tas at Hobart
1931 New Yorks's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
1930 Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York opens
1930 Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
1930 Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
1929 Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
1928 Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic vs. NSW) 14,887
1928 NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
1926 Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan 1926-1989
1923 Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St. New York City
1922 Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
1917 "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City
1917 Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up," premieres in New York City
1915 Irving Berlin and Harry B Smith's musical premieres in New York City
1914 Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits and Germans)
1911 Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in New York City
1908 Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns and becomes 1st black heavyweight champ
1905 V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste," premieres in New York City
1902 Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes," premieres in New York City
1901 Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack Brits
1900 Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany
1899 Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade
1896 "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa
1894 1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football
1888 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
1875 Lambs Club in New York forms
1868 Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1848 New Haven Railroad opens
1843 1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, New York City)
1837 Battle of Okeechobee-U.S. forces defeat Seminole Indians
1835 Charles Darwin company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New Zealand
1834 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes, Chile
1833 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia
1832 Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St. Martin at Cape Receiver
1831 Louisiana and Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as holiday
1830 Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres
1818 1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night") sung (Austria)
1818 Handel's Messiah, U.S. premieres in Boston
1776 Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians
1775 Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
1758 Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
1745 Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden
1745 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
1741 Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature scale
1717 Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed
1688 English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II
1683 English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
1651 Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for "observing any such day as Christmas"
1641 Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden and France
1640 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
1621 Governor William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on Christmas
1613 Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
1582 Zealand/Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec 14th
1522 Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1223 St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
1130 Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of Sicily
1121 Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
1101 Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Netherlands-Lutherans
1100 Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
1066 William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
1048 Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
1046 Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III RC-German emperor
1000 Monarch Istvan crowned king of Hungary
999 Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne
979 Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom
969 Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
967 John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor
875 Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
800 Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman emperor
795 Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
604 Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers
597 England adopts Julian calendar
498 French king Clovis baptises himself
390 Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica
352 1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
DECEMBER 26 EVENTS IN HISTORY (MATUKIO YA DESEMBA 26 KATIKA HISTORIA)
A. ENGLISH
2010 Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown
2010 China and South Korea plan to hold defense talks in February 2011 concerning growing regional tension on the Korean Peninsula
2004 Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa
2003 Earthquake kills more than 30,000 in Bam, Iran
1995 Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL vs. Australia, MCG)
1995 Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds
1994 Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)
1994 French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
1994 President brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
1993 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
1993 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)
1993 Floyd, Nicklaus and Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn
1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India
1991 New York Islander Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with second left
1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st General Manager of WLAF's NY-New Jersey Knights
1990 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
1989 ODI debut for Mark Taylor and Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
1988 "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 64 performances
1988 Anti African student rebellion in China PR
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
1986 Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
1985 Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, vs. India at the MCG
1984 Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este
1983 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs. Pakistan MCG
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1982 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1981 One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Australia vs. WI
1978 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1977 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1976 "Music Is" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 8 performances
1975 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144)
1975 A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
1973 "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres
1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
1968 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in New York City
1968 Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge
1968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against New York Rangers in New York's MSG
1967 BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
1966 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
1965 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
1965 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
1964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
1963 "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater New York City for 4 performances
1963 Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
1963 U.S. furnishes cereal to U.S.S.R.
1960 "Do Re Mi" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 400 performances
1960 Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in New York City
1960 Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
1957 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating LA 38-14
1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1954 "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio
1954 Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10
1950 Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
1948 Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1947 "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater New York City for 34 performances
1947 British transfer Heard and McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F
1946 "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 111 performances
1946 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater New York City for 60 performances
1946 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1944 Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago
1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1943 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1943 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
1940 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
1940 JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in New York City
1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1939 Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
1938 Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out
1938 Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs. South Africa
1936 Israel Philarmonic Orchestra forms
1935 Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
1934 Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
1933 Bradman scores 187* NSW vs. Victoria, 294 minutes, 13 fours
1933 U.S. forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1931 George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in New York City
1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
1931 SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten
1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1928 World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic
1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
1925 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
1925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
1925 New York's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70
1924 Judy Garland, 2, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut
1919 Yankees and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1918 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Australia after WW I (Vic vs. NSW)
1917 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
1917 Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1916 Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42)
1899 Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
1892 Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
1890 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
1879 John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres
1878 1st U.S. store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
1872 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18")
1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st U.S. coffee percolator
1862 Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service
1862 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising
1860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter
1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
1848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1848 William and Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
1830 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan
1825 Erie Canal opens
1813 Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
1809 English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
1805 France and Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1799 George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen"
1776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
1776 George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton
1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1748 France and Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
1659 Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
1620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
1568 Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada
1492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
1481 Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht
1198 French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
795 St. Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
418 St. Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
268 St. Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
2010 Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Capetown
2010 China and South Korea plan to hold defense talks in February 2011 concerning growing regional tension on the Korean Peninsula
2004 Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa
2003 Earthquake kills more than 30,000 in Bam, Iran
1995 Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL vs. Australia, MCG)
1995 Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds
1994 Actor Jason Hervey (22) weds Kelley Patricia O'Neill (27)
1994 French commando's terminate Air France hijacking in Marseille
1994 President brother Roger Clinton (37) weds 8-mo pregnant Molly Nartin (25)
1993 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
1993 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)
1993 Floyd, Nicklaus and Rodriguez wins Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tourn
1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
1991 Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
1991 Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
1991 Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India
1991 New York Islander Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with second left
1990 Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
1990 Reggie Williams becomes 1st General Manager of WLAF's NY-New Jersey Knights
1990 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
1989 ODI debut for Mark Taylor and Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
1988 "Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 64 performances
1988 Anti African student rebellion in China PR
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
1986 Doug Jarvis, 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games
1986 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
1985 Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, vs. India at the MCG
1984 Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este
1983 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs. Pakistan MCG
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1982 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
1982 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1981 One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Australia vs. WI
1978 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
1977 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1976 "Music Is" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 8 performances
1975 1st supersonic transport service (U.S.S.R.-Tupolev-144)
1975 A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket
1974 Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
1973 "Exorcist," starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres
1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
1968 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in New York City
1968 Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge
1968 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against New York Rangers in New York's MSG
1967 BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 Dave Brubeck Quartet formally disbands
1966 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
1965 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway
1965 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
1964 Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks
1964 Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
1963 "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater New York City for 4 performances
1963 Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There"
1963 U.S. furnishes cereal to U.S.S.R.
1960 "Do Re Mi" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 400 performances
1960 Musical "Do re mi" with Phil Silvers premieres in New York City
1960 Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
1957 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
1955 Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating LA 38-14
1955 RKO is 1st to announce sale of its film library to TV
1954 "The Shadow," airs for last time on radio
1954 Cleveland Browns win NFL Championship, beating Detroit 56-10
1950 Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
1948 Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
1947 "Cradle Will Ruck" opens at Mansfield Theater New York City for 34 performances
1947 British transfer Heard and McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
1947 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries New York City under 25.8" of snow in 16 hours That same day, LA set a record high of 84 degrees F
1946 "Beggar's Holiday" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 111 performances
1946 "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" opens at Century Theater New York City for 60 performances
1946 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
1946 Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
1944 Battle of Bastogne - U.S. General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army
1944 Tennessee Williams' play "Glass Menagerie," premieres in Chicago
1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1943 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1943 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter
1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that Axis would "stop at nothing"
1940 1st-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148
1940 JA Fields/J Chodorov's "My Sister Eileen," premieres in New York City
1939 Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey
1939 Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
1938 Bradman scores 225 South Australia vs. Qld before Christ gets him out
1938 Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs. South Africa
1936 Israel Philarmonic Orchestra forms
1935 Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth"
1934 Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
1933 Bradman scores 187* NSW vs. Victoria, 294 minutes, 13 fours
1933 U.S. forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
1932 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1931 George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in New York City
1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
1931 SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten
1928 Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1928 World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic
1926 Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
1925 1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
1925 NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
1925 Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
1925 New York's Jake Forbes makes 67 saves, Pitt's Ray Waters makes 70
1924 Judy Garland, 2, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut
1919 Yankees and Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
1918 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Australia after WW I (Vic vs. NSW)
1917 1st NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leaf Harry Cameron
1917 Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
1916 Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1902 Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42)
1899 Mafeking: Bathe-Powells failed assault up fort Game Tree: 24 killed
1892 Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
1890 King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company
1879 John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres
1878 1st U.S. store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
1872 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18")
1865 James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st U.S. coffee percolator
1862 Battle of Dumfries, VA
1862 1st U.S. Navy hospital ship enters service
1862 38 Santee Sioux Indians hanged in Mankato Minn, due to their uprising
1860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter
1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
1848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
1848 William and Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma," premieres in Milan
1830 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan
1825 Erie Canal opens
1813 Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
1809 English invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
1805 France and Austria signs Peace of Pressburg
1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1799 George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen"
1776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
1776 George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton
1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1748 France and Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands
1659 Long Parliament reforms in Westminster
1620 Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
1568 Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada
1492 1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
1481 Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht
1198 French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
795 St. Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
418 St. Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
268 St. Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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