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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1.12.1167 | Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League |
| 1.12.1566 | "Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva" |
| 1.12.1626 | "Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, driven out" |
| 1.12.1640 | Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule |
| 1.12.1641 | Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery |
| 1.12.1653 | An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St. Albans to London in less than 90 minutes |
| 1.12.1656 | Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden |
| 1.12.1708 | Great Alliance occupies Brussels |
| 1.12.1742 | Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia |
| 1.12.1750 | "1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md" |
| 1.12.1783 | "Charles and M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in hydrogen balloon" |
| 1.12.1783 | J van North launches unmanned balloon |
| 1.12.1804 | Emperor Napoleon marries Josephine of Martinique |
| 1.12.1821 | Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain |
| 1.12.1822 | Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil |
| 1.12.1822 | Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran |
| 1.12.1824 | "House of Representatives begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams," |
| 1.12.1824 | "Jackson, WH Crawford and H Clay Adams eventually declared president" |
| 1.12.1831 | Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather |
| 1.12.1835 | Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales |
| 1.12.1843 | 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens |
| 1.12.1852 | Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands |
| 1.12.1864 | "Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee to Saltville, VA" |
| 1.12.1864 | "Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia" |
| 1.12.1868 | John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war |
| 1.12.1878 | 1st White House telephone installed |
| 1.12.1887 | "Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: ""Study in Scarlet""" |
| 1.12.1887 | Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao |
| 1.12.1891 | James Naismith creates the game of basketball |
| 1.12.1896 | 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY) |
| 1.12.1900 | South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders |
| 1.12.1903 | """The Great Train Robbery,"" the 1st Western film, released" |
| 1.12.1906 | "Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris)" |
| 1.12.1906 | Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Kopenick) sentenced to 4 yrs |
| 1.12.1909 | "1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa" |
| 1.12.1909 | "1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef" |
| 1.12.1913 | Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38) |
| 1.12.1913 | 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts) |
| 1.12.1917 | Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb |
| 1.12.1918 | Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence |
| 1.12.1918 | Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown |
| 1.12.1918 | Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade |
| 1.12.1918 | Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established |
| 1.12.1919 | "AA Milne's ""Mr Pim Passes By,"" premieres in Manchester" |
| 1.12.1919 | Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament |
| 1.12.1921 | 1st U.S. helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight |
| 1.12.1921 | U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency |
| 1.12.1922 | "1st skywriting over US-""Hello USA""-by Capt Turner, RAF" |
| 1.12.1922 | "Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns" |
| 1.12.1923 | "CFL Grey Cup: Queen's U beats Regina, 54-0 at Toronto" |
| 1.12.1924 | Calles becomes president of Mexico |
| 1.12.1924 | "George/Ira Gershwin's musical ""Lady Be Good,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 1.12.1925 | Treaty of Locarno signed |
| 1.12.1928 | "CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina, 30-0 at Hamilton" |
| 1.12.1928 | Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth |
| 1.12.1929 | Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe |
| 1.12.1929 | BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe |
| 1.12.1930 | NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty |
| 1.12.1930 | Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent |
| 1.12.1931 | Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint |
| 1.12.1933 | Rudolf Hess and Earnest Rohm become a minister in Hitler government |
| 1.12.1935 | Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp |
| 1.12.1936 | "2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)" |
| 1.12.1936 | Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use |
| 1.12.1936 | EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants |
| 1.12.1937 | Japan recognizes Franco government |
| 1.12.1938 | School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah |
| 1.12.1939 | SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews |
| 1.12.1941 | British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python |
| 1.12.1941 | Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war |
| 1.12.1941 | Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years |
| 1.12.1941 | US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes |
| 1.12.1942 | Gasoline rationed in US |
| 1.12.1943 | "FDR, Churchill and Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)" |
| 1.12.1944 | "Bela Bartok's Concerto for orchestra, premoeres" |
| 1.12.1944 | Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands |
| 1.12.1944 | "Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres" |
| 1.12.1945 | "CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg, 35-0 at Toronto" |
| 1.12.1946 | Australia compile 645 vs. India at the Gabba (Bradman 187) |
| 1.12.1947 | Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test vs. India at the Gabba |
| 1.12.1947 | "India cricket all out for 58 vs. Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2" |
| 1.12.1948 | "Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine" |
| 1.12.1948 | Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player |
| 1.12.1949 | "WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.12.1949 | "WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.12.1951 | "17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)" |
| 1.12.1951 | "Benjamin Britten's opera ""Billy Budd,"" premieres in London" |
| 1.12.1951 | Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds |
| 1.12.1953 | Red Sox trade M McDermott and Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen |
| 1.12.1953 | "WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, South Carolina (IND) 1st broadcast" |
| 1.12.1953 | Walter Alston named Dodger manager |
| 1.12.1953 | "WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.12.1954 | Nationalist China and U.S. sign dike agreement |
| 1.12.1954 | "Yanks send Miller, Segrist, Leppert and 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson, Fridley and Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)" |
| 1.12.1955 | Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus |
| 1.12.1956 | Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0) |
| 1.12.1956 | """Candide"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 73 performances" |
| 1.12.1956 | Frank Robinson (NL) and Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year |
| 1.12.1956 | "Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta, resigns" |
| 1.12.1957 | Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1.12.1958 | Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Natl Day) |
| 1.12.1958 | """Flower Drum Song"" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 602 performances" |
| 1.12.1958 | "Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic)" |
| 1.12.1959 | 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica |
| 1.12.1959 | 1st color photograph of Earth from outer space |
| 1.12.1959 | "25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)" |
| 1.12.1959 | The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space |
| 1.12.1960 | Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo |
| 1.12.1962 | "Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)" |
| 1.12.1962 | "KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.12.1963 | Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union |
| 1.12.1963 | "New York Jets 1st shutout, beat Kansas City 17-0" |
| 1.12.1964 | Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros |
| 1.12.1964 | ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign |
| 1.12.1965 | Airlift of refugees from Cuba to U.S. began |
| 1.12.1965 | South Africa government says children of white fathers are white |
| 1.12.1966 | Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor |
| 1.12.1966 | "Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo" |
| 1.12.1967 | Pacific Northwest Sports awarded AL expansion franchise (Seattle) |
| 1.12.1967 | Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope |
| 1.12.1967 | Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams |
| 1.12.1967 | Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses |
| 1.12.1968 | Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1.12.1968 | Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela |
| 1.12.1968 | Peggy Wilson wins LPGA Hollywood Lakes Golf Open |
| 1.12.1968 | """Promises Promises"" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 1281 performances" |
| 1.12.1969 | U.S. government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II |
| 1.12.1970 | Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes People Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| 1.12.1970 | Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico |
| 1.12.1970 | NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 1.12.1971 | """2 Gentlemen of Verona"" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 613 performances" |
| 1.12.1971 | Cubs release Ernie Banks and sign him as a coach |
| 1.12.1971 | "Galt MacDermot/John Guare's ""2 gentlemen of Verona,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 1.12.1971 | "John and Yoko release ""Happy Xmas (War is Over)"" in US" |
| 1.12.1971 | People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen |
| 1.12.1972 | "Wings release ""Hi, Hi, Hi"" in UK" |
| 1.12.1973 | Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea |
| 1.12.1973 | Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year |
| 1.12.1973 | Jan Ferraris wins LPGA-Japan Golf Classic |
| 1.12.1973 | "Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champ" |
| 1.12.1974 | "Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died" |
| 1.12.1974 | Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5) |
| 1.12.1974 | LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8 |
| 1.12.1975 | US president Gerald Ford visits China |
| 1.12.1976 | Angola admitted to UN |
| 1.12.1976 | Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president |
| 1.12.1976 | "Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as ""rotten punks""" |
| 1.12.1978 | Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size |
| 1.12.1978 | "Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, vs. England at the Gabba" |
| 1.12.1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1.12.1980 | "46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)" |
| 1.12.1980 | "Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in ""Cementing Relationships""" |
| 1.12.1980 | U.S. Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination |
| 1.12.1981 | 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain |
| 1.12.1981 | "Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed" |
| 1.12.1982 | Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart |
| 1.12.1982 | Michael Jackson releases Thriller |
| 1.12.1982 | Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico |
| 1.12.1983 | "Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury" |
| 1.12.1984 | "50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)" |
| 1.12.1984 | France performs nuclear test |
| 1.12.1984 | Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title |
| 1.12.1985 | Noraly Beyer becomes Netherlands 1st black TV newscaster |
| 1.12.1985 | South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms |
| 1.12.1985 | STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1.12.1986 | Musee d'orsay opens in Paris |
| 1.12.1986 | "Paul McCartney releases ""Only Love Remains""" |
| 1.12.1987 | Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel |
| 1.12.1988 | "596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless" |
| 1.12.1988 | Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan) |
| 1.12.1988 | Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow |
| 1.12.1988 | NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics |
| 1.12.1988 | New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St. Louis Blues |
| 1.12.1989 | """Day Without Art"" - Artists demonstrate against AIDS" |
| 1.12.1989 | East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution |
| 1.12.1989 | Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels contract |
| 1.12.1989 | U.S.S.R. President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican |
| 1.12.1990 | "56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)" |
| 1.12.1990 | British and French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel) |
| 1.12.1990 | Hissene Habre of Chad flees to Cameroon |
| 1.12.1990 | Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks |
| 1.12.1990 | "Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint session" |
| 1.12.1990 | New York Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96 |
| 1.12.1991 | 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1) |
| 1.12.1991 | AIDS awareness day |
| 1.12.1991 | Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election |
| 1.12.1991 | """Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin"" closes at Gershwin New York City after 32 performances" |
| 1.12.1991 | Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan |
| 1.12.1991 | """Once on this Island"" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 469 performances" |
| 1.12.1991 | "U.S. 75th manned space mission ""STS 44"" Atlantis 10 lands" |
| 1.12.1991 | Ukrainian people vote for independence |
| 1.12.1992 | "2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana and crash, 13 die" |
| 1.12.1992 | Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco |
| 1.12.1993 | "Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18" |
| 1.12.1994 | 3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident |
| 1.12.1994 | Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce they are seperating |
| 1.12.1994 | Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico |
| 1.12.1994 | PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail |
| 1.12.1994 | Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London |
| 1.12.1996 | 85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2) |
| 1.12.1996 | Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India |
| 1.12.1997 | "GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo" |
| 1.12.1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport IA on KORB 93.5 FM |
| 1.12.1997 | Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS |
| 2.12.1620 | "English language newspaper ""Namloos"" begins publishing in Amsterdam" |
| 2.12.1682 | English earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam |
| 2.12.1697 | St. Paul's Cathedral opens in London |
| 2.12.1763 | Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing U.S. synagogue) |
| 2.12.1777 | British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 |
| 2.12.1790 | Austrian army occupies Brussels |
| 2.12.1802 | English sell Suriname to Dutch |
| 2.12.1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII |
| 2.12.1805 | Napoleon defeats Russians and Austrians at Austerlitz |
| 2.12.1812 | "James Madison re-elected president of U.S., E Gerry vice-pres" |
| 2.12.1813 | Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy |
| 2.12.1816 | 1st savings bank in U.S. opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society) |
| 2.12.1822 | "In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US" |
| 2.12.1823 | "President James Monroe declares his ""Monroe Doctrine""" |
| 2.12.1840 | "Gaetano Donizetti's opera ""La Favorita,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 2.12.1840 | "Opera ""Die Favoritin"" is produced (Paris)" |
| 2.12.1840 | William H Harrison elected president of US |
| 2.12.1848 | Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |
| 2.12.1852 | 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor |
| 2.12.1864 | "Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia" |
| 2.12.1868 | 1st British government of Disraeli resigns |
| 2.12.1877 | "Camille Saint-Saens' opera ""Samson et Dalila,"" premieres in Weimar" |
| 2.12.1882 | Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium |
| 2.12.1883 | "John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres" |
| 2.12.1885 | "Opera ""Regina di Saba,"" premieres in Vienna" |
| 2.12.1887 | Amsterdam's Oscar Carres Circus Theater opens |
| 2.12.1887 | Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in U.S. (New York City) |
| 2.12.1887 | French president Grevy (80) resigns |
| 2.12.1891 | 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes |
| 2.12.1895 | 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes |
| 2.12.1896 | "Gerhart Hauptmann's ""Die versunkene Glocke,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 2.12.1899 | US and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them |
| 2.12.1900 | South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany |
| 2.12.1901 | Gillette patents 1st disposable razor |
| 2.12.1901 | King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades |
| 2.12.1902 | Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer |
| 2.12.1907 | English Professional Football Player's Association forms |
| 2.12.1907 | Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 2.12.1908 | Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3 |
| 2.12.1913 | Archdiocese of Managua created |
| 2.12.1913 | Government -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription |
| 2.12.1914 | Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia |
| 2.12.1916 | Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract |
| 2.12.1917 | "Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea" |
| 2.12.1922 | "10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1" |
| 2.12.1924 | British-German trade agreement signed |
| 2.12.1927 | "1st Model A Fords sold, for $385" |
| 2.12.1928 | Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP |
| 2.12.1929 | "1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien" |
| 2.12.1932 | """Adv of Charlie Chan"" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network" |
| 2.12.1933 | 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson) |
| 2.12.1933 | "Fred Astaire's 1st film, ""Dancing Lady,"" released" |
| 2.12.1934 | "5.08-m (200"") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast" |
| 2.12.1939 | British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC |
| 2.12.1939 | "NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight" |
| 2.12.1941 | "New York Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry" |
| 2.12.1941 | Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor |
| 2.12.1941 | Largest roller skating rink (outside of New York City) opens in Peekskill NY |
| 2.12.1941 | Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul |
| 2.12.1942 | 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction Enrico Fermi - University of Chicago) |
| 2.12.1943 | 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp |
| 2.12.1944 | "10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)" |
| 2.12.1944 | General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow |
| 2.12.1944 | German troops seize Betuwse dikes |
| 2.12.1944 | US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar |
| 2.12.1947 | "13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)" |
| 2.12.1948 | Stan Musial is picked NL MVP |
| 2.12.1950 | Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight |
| 2.12.1951 | """Borscht Capades"" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 90 performances" |
| 2.12.1951 | Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing |
| 2.12.1952 | "18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)" |
| 2.12.1952 | "1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)" |
| 2.12.1954 | Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws |
| 2.12.1954 | """Hit the Trail"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 4 performances" |
| 2.12.1954 | "U.S. Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for ""conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor and disrepute""" |
| 2.12.1956 | "Fidel Castro lands with ""Granma"" on coast of Cuba" |
| 2.12.1957 | "Sam Cooke's ""You Send Me"" reaches #1" |
| 2.12.1957 | 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn) |
| 2.12.1958 | "24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)" |
| 2.12.1958 | "Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg" |
| 2.12.1958 | "KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.12.1959 | Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus |
| 2.12.1961 | "Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, and will lead Cuba to Communism" |
| 2.12.1961 | "Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing" |
| 2.12.1962 | "50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto" |
| 2.12.1963 | 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km |
| 2.12.1963 | "ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965" |
| 2.12.1964 | Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed |
| 2.12.1966 | "Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East" |
| 2.12.1967 | "55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1" |
| 2.12.1968 | President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor |
| 2.12.1969 | Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City) |
| 2.12.1969 | """Buck White"" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 7 performances" |
| 2.12.1970 | Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus) |
| 2.12.1970 | "Tippetts Opera ""Knot Garden,"" premieres in London" |
| 2.12.1971 | "Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates" |
| 2.12.1971 | Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars |
| 2.12.1971 | "United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from UK" |
| 2.12.1971 | Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes President of UAE |
| 2.12.1972 | "60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10" |
| 2.12.1972 | """December Giant"" largest sinkhole in U.S. collapses (Alabama)" |
| 2.12.1972 | In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen |
| 2.12.1972 | """Via Galactica"" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 7 performances" |
| 2.12.1973 | 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0) |
| 2.12.1973 | Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Washington D.C. opens |
| 2.12.1973 | "US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96" |
| 2.12.1974 | "Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs" |
| 2.12.1974 | "Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ" |
| 2.12.1974 | Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days |
| 2.12.1975 | "7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed" |
| 2.12.1975 | G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt vs. WI |
| 2.12.1975 | Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day) |
| 2.12.1975 | "Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms" |
| 2.12.1978 | "Chanting ""Allah is great,"" anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran" |
| 2.12.1978 | "Neil Diamond and Barbra Striesand's ""You Don't Bring Me Flowers"" hits #1" |
| 2.12.1978 | "Streisand and Diamond's ""You Don't Bring Me Flowers,"" goes #1" |
| 2.12.1979 | Crowds attack U.S. embassy at Tripoli Libya |
| 2.12.1979 | Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double |
| 2.12.1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 2.12.1980 | 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador |
| 2.12.1981 | Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year |
| 2.12.1981 | "Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM" |
| 2.12.1981 | Spanish government requests membership in NATO |
| 2.12.1982 | 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart |
| 2.12.1984 | "4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win" |
| 2.12.1984 | "Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG" |
| 2.12.1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 2.12.1985 | """Mystery of Edwin Drood"" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 608 performances" |
| 2.12.1985 | Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder |
| 2.12.1985 | "Rupert Holmes' musical ""Mystery of Edwin Drood,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 2.12.1986 | Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57 |
| 2.12.1987 | Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor |
| 2.12.1987 | "Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colorado becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx]" |
| 2.12.1987 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 2.12.1988 | "5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel" |
| 2.12.1988 | """Naked Gun"" premieres, a movie based on TV's ""Police Squad""" |
| 2.12.1988 | STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission) |
| 2.12.1988 | "U.N. votes 151-2 (Isr and U.S.) to move PLO debate to Geneva, British abstains" |
| 2.12.1989 | "55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)" |
| 2.12.1989 | "KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KCAL-TV" |
| 2.12.1989 | Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India |
| 2.12.1990 | 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany |
| 2.12.1990 | 1st time 12 people in space |
| 2.12.1990 | 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St. Petersburg (3-2) |
| 2.12.1990 | Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 2.12.1990 | U.S. 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit |
| 2.12.1991 | Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with New York Mets |
| 2.12.1991 | Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio |
| 2.12.1992 | WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in New York City |
| 2.12.1993 | "A Websters musical ""Sunset Promenade"" premieres in LA" |
| 2.12.1993 | Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11 |
| 2.12.1993 | Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start |
| 2.12.1993 | "Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches" |
| 2.12.1994 | Achille Lauro sinks off the coast of Somalia |
| 2.12.1994 | Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment |
| 2.12.1994 | """Cobb"" premieres" |
| 2.12.1994 | Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring |
| 2.12.1995 | 17th ACE Cable Awards |
| 2.12.1997 | "MCI Center opens in Washington D.C., Wizards vs SuperSonics" |
| 3.12.741 | St. Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III |
| 3.12.1347 | Pope Clemens VI declares Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo as heretics |
| 3.12.1557 | 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form |
| 3.12.1586 | "Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia" |
| 3.12.1621 | Galileo invents telescope |
| 3.12.1639 | 1st annulment by court decree passes |
| 3.12.1676 | Battle at Lund: Sweden beats Denen |
| 3.12.1678 | "Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford" |
| 3.12.1685 | Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden |
| 3.12.1694 | English parliamentary election set for every 3 years |
| 3.12.1699 | Baron Jacob Hop appointed treasurer-general of the Hague |
| 3.12.1775 | 1st official U.S. flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred) |
| 3.12.1818 | Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day) |
| 3.12.1828 | Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US |
| 3.12.1833 | "Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens" |
| 3.12.1834 | 1st U.S. dental society organized (NY) |
| 3.12.1835 | 1st U.S. mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI) |
| 3.12.1844 | RC Society Apostole of Prayer forms |
| 3.12.1847 | "Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper ""North Star""" |
| 3.12.1863 | "Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN" |
| 3.12.1864 | "Skirmish at Thomas' Station, Georgia" |
| 3.12.1866 | Paid fire department replaces volunteer companies |
| 3.12.1868 | Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on U.S. trial jury |
| 3.12.1878 | Settlers arrive at Petach Tikvah Israel |
| 3.12.1881 | Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa |
| 3.12.1883 | 48th Congress (1883-85) convenes |
| 3.12.1893 | Ndebeles destroy Rhodesia |
| 3.12.1901 | Milwaukee is dropped from the AL and replaced by St. Louis Browns |
| 3.12.1903 | Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Colijn at Atjeh |
| 3.12.1907 | "George Cohans musical ""Talk of the Town,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.12.1908 | "Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A, premieres" |
| 3.12.1910 | "Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)" |
| 3.12.1912 | Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer |
| 3.12.1912 | "Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign weapons pact" |
| 3.12.1914 | Netherlands army shoots up geinterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed |
| 3.12.1920 | Turkey and Armenia agree to peace treaty |
| 3.12.1921 | "9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0" |
| 3.12.1922 | "1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City" |
| 3.12.1923 | 1st Congressional open session broadcast via radio (Washington D.C.) |
| 3.12.1926 | Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) |
| 3.12.1929 | Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak |
| 3.12.1930 | Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium) |
| 3.12.1930 | Otto Ender forms Austrian government |
| 3.12.1930 | "Richard Rodgers/L Hart's musical ""Evergreen,"" premieres in London" |
| 3.12.1931 | Alka Seltzer goes on sale |
| 3.12.1932 | "20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6" |
| 3.12.1932 | Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany |
| 3.12.1933 | "Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000" |
| 3.12.1933 | Joe Lilliard QBs Chicago Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946 |
| 3.12.1934 | Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya |
| 3.12.1934 | "KYW-AM in Chicago, Illinois moves to Philadelphia Penn" |
| 3.12.1938 | AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric |
| 3.12.1939 | "Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres" |
| 3.12.1941 | Hitler views Poltava Ukraine |
| 3.12.1943 | "9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame (QB)" |
| 3.12.1943 | "Battle of Monte Cassino, Italy begins" |
| 3.12.1943 | "Howard Hanson's 4th Symphony, premieres" |
| 3.12.1943 | "Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins" |
| 3.12.1944 | "British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece" |
| 3.12.1944 | Hungarian death march of Jews ends |
| 3.12.1944 | Mussert puts Seyss-Inquart plan for small Nazi-Europe |
| 3.12.1944 | NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves |
| 3.12.1944 | US 5th Armour division occupies Brandenburg Hurtgenwald |
| 3.12.1946 | "12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)" |
| 3.12.1946 | U.S. government asks United Nations to order dictator Franco out of Spain |
| 3.12.1947 | "Tennessee Williams' ""Streetcar Named Desire,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.12.1948 | 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in |
| 3.12.1948 | "Bradman scores his last century, 123 in his own testimonial" |
| 3.12.1948 | "Chinese refugee ship ""Kiangya"" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100" |
| 3.12.1948 | """Pumpkin Papers"" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)" |
| 3.12.1949 | "KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (CBS) begins" |
| 3.12.1950 | Cleveland Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Philadelphia 13-7) |
| 3.12.1950 | Cleveland Browns' Horace Gillom sets club record with 12 punts |
| 3.12.1950 | Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast |
| 3.12.1952 | 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii |
| 3.12.1952 | Marcos Perez Jimenez elected president of Venezuela |
| 3.12.1953 | Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party |
| 3.12.1953 | """Kismet"" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 583 performances" |
| 3.12.1953 | Premier of Dmitri Shostakovitch' 5th String Quartet |
| 3.12.1954 | "Samuel Barber's ""Prayers of Kierkegaard,"" premieres" |
| 3.12.1954 | "William Walton's opera ""Troilus and Cressida,"" premieres in London" |
| 3.12.1955 | "KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.12.1956 | England and France pull troops out of Egypt |
| 3.12.1956 | "KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft. Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 3.12.1956 | Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52) |
| 3.12.1957 | "23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)" |
| 3.12.1958 | Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses |
| 3.12.1959 | State of emergency on Cyprus ends |
| 3.12.1960 | """Camelot"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 873 performances" |
| 3.12.1960 | "Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's ""Camelot,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.12.1961 | Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion |
| 3.12.1961 | Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein |
| 3.12.1961 | George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal |
| 3.12.1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.12.1962 | Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st U.S. black female judge |
| 3.12.1962 | Pravda criticizes western art |
| 3.12.1964 | "KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 3.12.1964 | Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley |
| 3.12.1964 | """Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"" 1st airs on TV" |
| 3.12.1965 | Beatles begin final U.K. concert tour in Glasgow |
| 3.12.1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon |
| 3.12.1966 | US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss |
| 3.12.1967 | "1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa)" |
| 3.12.1967 | Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:09:36.4) |
| 3.12.1967 | Ex-president Sukarno under house arrest in Indonesia |
| 3.12.1967 | "Final run of ""20th Century Limited,"" famed NY-Chicago luxury train" |
| 3.12.1968 | "Pitcher's mound drops from 15"" to 10"" and strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters" |
| 3.12.1969 | John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar |
| 3.12.1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.12.1971 | Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 3.12.1971 | President Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term |
| 3.12.1972 | "Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die" |
| 3.12.1973 | Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT] |
| 3.12.1975 | Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed |
| 3.12.1976 | Dr. Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq |
| 3.12.1978 | """King of Hearts"" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances" |
| 3.12.1978 | Pat Bradley/Lon Hinkle wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 3.12.1979 | "45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB)" |
| 3.12.1979 | "Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400" |
| 3.12.1979 | Iran accepts constitution |
| 3.12.1980 | "NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-New Jersey and Murphy, D-NY, guilty" |
| 3.12.1981 | Beth Daniel/Tom Kite wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 3.12.1981 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.12.1982 | 1st New Jersey Devil hat-trick (Steve Tambellini) defeat Hartford 5-4 |
| 3.12.1982 | "35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)" |
| 3.12.1982 | 77 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in December |
| 3.12.1982 | New Jersey Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini) |
| 3.12.1982 | Tommy Hearns wins WBC Welterweight title in decision over Benitez |
| 3.12.1983 | "49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB)" |
| 3.12.1983 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 3.12.1983 | """Marilyn: An American Fable"" closes at Minskoff New York City after 16 performances" |
| 3.12.1984 | "2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India" |
| 3.12.1984 | "Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc" |
| 3.12.1985 | 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB |
| 3.12.1986 | Sri Lanka all out 55 vs. WI in one-dayer Walsh 5-1 in 4 3 overs |
| 3.12.1988 | "54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)" |
| 3.12.1988 | New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48) |
| 3.12.1989 | Pat Bradley/Bill Glasson wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 3.12.1990 | NL batting champ Willie McGee signs as a free agent with San Francisco Giants |
| 3.12.1991 | Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion |
| 3.12.1991 | Muslim Shites release U.S. hostage Alan Steen |
| 3.12.1991 | White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns |
| 3.12.1992 | U.N. Security Council votes unanimous for U.S. led forces to enter Somalia |
| 3.12.1995 | 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2) |
| 3.12.1995 | Beth Daniels/Davis Love III wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 3.12.1995 | """Company"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 68 performances" |
| 3.12.1995 | """Holiday"" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 49 performances" |
| 3.12.1995 | "Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket vs. South Africa, a record" |
| 3.12.1995 | Naeem Akhtar takes 10-28 for Rawalpindi B against Peshawar |
| 3.12.1995 | Northwestern South Carolina begins using new area code 864 |
| 3.12.1997 | """1776,"" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City" |
| 3.12.1997 | "Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking his coach P J Carlesimo" |
| 4.12.1110 | Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders |
| 4.12.1197 | Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah |
| 4.12.1259 | Treaty of Paris: English king Henry III and French king Louis IX |
| 4.12.1489 | Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors |
| 4.12.1534 | Turkish sultan Suleiman occupies Baghdad |
| 4.12.1563 | "Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years" |
| 4.12.1619 | America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va) |
| 4.12.1644 | 1st European peace congress opens in Munster |
| 4.12.1655 | Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue |
| 4.12.1665 | "Jean Racine's ""Alexandre le Grand,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 4.12.1674 | Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago |
| 4.12.1680 | Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th |
| 4.12.1682 | 1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester) |
| 4.12.1688 | General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III |
| 4.12.1691 | Emperor Leopold I takes control of Transsylvania |
| 4.12.1691 | Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II viceroy of S Netherlands |
| 4.12.1745 | Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby |
| 4.12.1783 | "Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, New York City" |
| 4.12.1791 | "Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in world, 1st published" |
| 4.12.1798 | Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt |
| 4.12.1812 | "Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania patents a horse-drawn mower" |
| 4.12.1816 | "James Monroe (VA), elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King" |
| 4.12.1829 | "Britain abolished ""suttee"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre" |
| 4.12.1832 | French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp |
| 4.12.1833 | American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila |
| 4.12.1836 | "Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa" |
| 4.12.1843 | "Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented, Mass" |
| 4.12.1843 | "Robert Schumann's ""Das Paradies und die Peri,"" premieres in Leipzig" |
| 4.12.1844 | James K Polk elected 11th president of US |
| 4.12.1851 | President Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France |
| 4.12.1863 | Storm flood ravages Nethe coastal provinces |
| 4.12.1864 | Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek) GA |
| 4.12.1864 | Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law |
| 4.12.1867 | Grange organized to protect farm interests |
| 4.12.1875 | "William Marcy ""Boss"" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail" |
| 4.12.1889 | Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean |
| 4.12.1890 | "Willem III, Dutch king, buried" |
| 4.12.1899 | 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes |
| 4.12.1899 | Webb Hayes son of President Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor |
| 4.12.1901 | "Anne Russell's ""Girl and the judge,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.12.1905 | British government of Balfour resigns |
| 4.12.1906 | "Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms" |
| 4.12.1908 | Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from military coup |
| 4.12.1909 | "1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6" |
| 4.12.1914 | Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court |
| 4.12.1915 | F F Fletcher is 1st Admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor |
| 4.12.1915 | Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga |
| 4.12.1915 | Panama Pacific International Exposition opens |
| 4.12.1918 | "President Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside U.S. while in office" |
| 4.12.1920 | "1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds" |
| 4.12.1920 | "8th CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 16-3" |
| 4.12.1922 | "Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-U.S. foreign service" |
| 4.12.1923 | "Cecil B DeMille's 1st version of ""Ten Commandments"" premieres" |
| 4.12.1923 | WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show) |
| 4.12.1926 | "14th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats University of Toronto, 10-7" |
| 4.12.1927 | "Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow" |
| 4.12.1927 | Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem |
| 4.12.1927 | Pirates Paul Waner wins NL MVP |
| 4.12.1928 | "Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn's musical ""Whoopee,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.12.1930 | French government of Tardieu falls |
| 4.12.1930 | Vatican approves rhythm method for birth control |
| 4.12.1931 | """Frankenstein"" opens at Mayfair" |
| 4.12.1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration |
| 4.12.1933 | "Jack Kirkland's ""Tobacco Road,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.12.1935 | "1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class" |
| 4.12.1941 | Nazi ordinances places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts |
| 4.12.1942 | Works Progress Administration liquidated |
| 4.12.1942 | 1st U.S. citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) |
| 4.12.1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration |
| 4.12.1942 | U.S. bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II |
| 4.12.1943 | "2nd conference of Cairo: FDR, Churchill and Turkish President Inonu" |
| 4.12.1943 | Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr. Ribar |
| 4.12.1944 | "Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded" |
| 4.12.1945 | "11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)" |
| 4.12.1945 | Senate approves U.S. participation in UN |
| 4.12.1947 | U.S.S.R. joins International Amateur Athletic Union |
| 4.12.1948 | """Magdalena"" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 48 performances" |
| 4.12.1948 | "SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die" |
| 4.12.1949 | Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run |
| 4.12.1951 | "Copland/Robbins' ""Pied Piper,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.12.1951 | "Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500" |
| 4.12.1952 | "Killer fogs begin in London England, ""Smog"" becomes a word" |
| 4.12.1952 | Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO |
| 4.12.1954 | """Hit the Trail"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 4 performances" |
| 4.12.1954 | """On Your Toes"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 64 performances" |
| 4.12.1955 | Mgr Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht |
| 4.12.1956 | "22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)" |
| 4.12.1957 | "1st edition of ""Chase's Annual Events"" published" |
| 4.12.1957 | 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St. John's England) |
| 4.12.1958 | "Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community" |
| 4.12.1958 | "Finnish government of Fagerholm, resigns" |
| 4.12.1961 | Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 4.12.1961 | Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days |
| 4.12.1961 | "Smallest New York Knick, 49th St. MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)" |
| 4.12.1961 | Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN |
| 4.12.1961 | "WXGeorgia TV channel 8 in Waycross, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.12.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 4.12.1963 | Aldo Moro forms Italian government |
| 4.12.1963 | Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council |
| 4.12.1964 | Baseball approves a free-agent draft |
| 4.12.1964 | "Beatles release ""Beatles For Sale"" album" |
| 4.12.1964 | Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes |
| 4.12.1964 | "Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, vs. Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31" |
| 4.12.1965 | "2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die" |
| 4.12.1965 | 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner) |
| 4.12.1965 | Gemini 7 (Borman and Lovell) launched |
| 4.12.1965 | """Roar of the Greasepaint"" closes at Shubert New York City after 232 performances" |
| 4.12.1965 | "San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000" |
| 4.12.1966 | "KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 4.12.1966 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational |
| 4.12.1970 | Unemployment in U.S. increases to 5.8 percent |
| 4.12.1973 | Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter |
| 4.12.1974 | Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims |
| 4.12.1974 | Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison |
| 4.12.1975 | "6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead" |
| 4.12.1976 | Liz Taylor's 7th marriage to John Warner |
| 4.12.1977 | Hollis Stacy/Jerry Pate wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship |
| 4.12.1977 | "Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself" |
| 4.12.1977 | "Neil Simon's ""Chapter Two,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.12.1977 | "NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats Kansas City 27-7" |
| 4.12.1978 | Dianne Feinstein is named San Francisco 1st female mayor |
| 4.12.1978 | Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed |
| 4.12.1978 | Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus |
| 4.12.1978 | War criminal Pieter Menten freed |
| 4.12.1979 | "Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith" |
| 4.12.1979 | Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero) |
| 4.12.1980 | "2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up" |
| 4.12.1980 | Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies) |
| 4.12.1981 | "According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa" |
| 4.12.1981 | """Falcon Crest"" premieres on CBS-TV" |
| 4.12.1981 | President Reagan allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence |
| 4.12.1981 | Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) |
| 4.12.1982 | "48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)" |
| 4.12.1982 | China adopts its constitution |
| 4.12.1982 | Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp |
| 4.12.1983 | """Amen Corner"" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 83 performances" |
| 4.12.1983 | """Baby"" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 241 performances" |
| 4.12.1983 | "David Shire and R Maltby Jr's musical ""Baby,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.12.1983 | "New Jersey Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0" |
| 4.12.1983 | US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon |
| 4.12.1984 | Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner |
| 4.12.1985 | French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski |
| 4.12.1985 | """Les Miserables"" opens at Palace Theatre, London" |
| 4.12.1985 | President Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser |
| 4.12.1986 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-7 |
| 4.12.1986 | "Neil Simon's ""Broadway Bound,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.12.1987 | Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51) |
| 4.12.1988 | Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash |
| 4.12.1988 | Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 4.12.1988 | Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers |
| 4.12.1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 4.12.1990 | Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in New York City |
| 4.12.1990 | "Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages" |
| 4.12.1991 | Judds final concert (Nashville) |
| 4.12.1991 | Muslim Shites release last U.S. hostage Terry Anderson (held 6 years) |
| 4.12.1991 | Pan American World Airways ceased operations |
| 4.12.1991 | Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her |
| 4.12.1993 | Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec) |
| 4.12.1993 | Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53) |
| 4.12.1994 | 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1) |
| 4.12.1994 | """Angels in America-Millennium Approach"" closes at Kerr after 367 performances" |
| 4.12.1994 | """Angels in America-Perestroika"" closes at W Kerr New York City after 216 performances" |
| 4.12.1994 | Marta Figueras-Dottie/Brad Bryant wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 4.12.1995 | Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test |
| 4.12.1996 | 7th Billboard Music Awards |
| 4.12.1996 | NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral |
| 4.12.1996 | "Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest ponts scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57" |
| 4.12.1997 | """Diary of Anne Frank,"" opens at Music Box Theater New York City" |
| 4.12.1997 | NBA suspends Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking his coach |
| 5.12.1301 | Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee) |
| 5.12.1349 | 500 Jews of Nuremberg massacre during Black Death riots |
| 5.12.1448 | Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication |
| 5.12.1456 | "Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die" |
| 5.12.1492 | Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espanola/Haiti) |
| 5.12.1496 | Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I |
| 5.12.1590 | Noccolo Sfondrato chosen Pope Gregory XIV |
| 5.12.1602 | "Giulio Caccini's ""Euridice,"" premieres in Florence" |
| 5.12.1741 | Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers |
| 5.12.1757 | Battle at Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians |
| 5.12.1766 | London auctioneers Christie's hold their 1st sale |
| 5.12.1776 | "1st U.S. fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William and Mary College), forms" |
| 5.12.1792 | George Washington re-elected U.S. pres |
| 5.12.1798 | Government troops occupy Hasselt |
| 5.12.1804 | Thomas Jefferson re-elected U.S. pres/George Clinton vice-pres |
| 5.12.1813 | Lubeck surrenders to allied armies |
| 5.12.1830 | "Hector Berlioz' ""Symphonique fantastique,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 5.12.1831 | Former President John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps |
| 5.12.1832 | Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US |
| 5.12.1837 | "Hector Berlioz' ""Requiem,"" premieres" |
| 5.12.1837 | Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada |
| 5.12.1846 | C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive |
| 5.12.1848 | "President Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms California gold discovery" |
| 5.12.1854 | Aaron Allen of Boston patents folding theater chair |
| 5.12.1859 | "Dion Boucicault's ""Octaroon,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 5.12.1861 | Gatling gun patented |
| 5.12.1862 | "Battle of Coffeeville, MS" |
| 5.12.1868 | 1st American bicycle college opens (NY) |
| 5.12.1876 | Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench |
| 5.12.1876 | "Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death" |
| 5.12.1879 | 1st automatic telephone switching system patented |
| 5.12.1881 | 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes |
| 5.12.1887 | Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo |
| 5.12.1890 | "Berlioz' opera ""Les Troyens,"" premieres in Karlsruhe" |
| 5.12.1892 | Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag |
| 5.12.1893 | 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges |
| 5.12.1894 | "Georges Feydeaus' ""L'hotel du lobre echange,"" premoeres on Paros" |
| 5.12.1896 | "Henrik Ibsen's ""Kejsor og Galileer,"" premieres in Leipzig" |
| 5.12.1905 | Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes PM of England |
| 5.12.1906 | British government-Balfour resigns |
| 5.12.1908 | 1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh) |
| 5.12.1914 | "6th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats University of Toronto, 14-2" |
| 5.12.1918 | Oil refinery on Curacao opens |
| 5.12.1920 | "Pro football playoff game Akron and Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided" |
| 5.12.1924 | Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5 |
| 5.12.1925 | "13th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators defeats Win Tammany Tigers, 24-1" |
| 5.12.1925 | German government of Luther falls |
| 5.12.1926 | "Sergei Eisenstein's ""Battleship Potemkin,"" debuts" |
| 5.12.1928 | England defeats Australia by record 675 runs at Brisbane |
| 5.12.1928 | MW Miklas elected president of Austria |
| 5.12.1929 | "1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City)" |
| 5.12.1931 | "CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal" |
| 5.12.1932 | German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa |
| 5.12.1933 | "21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)" |
| 5.12.1935 | 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California) |
| 5.12.1935 | National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (New York City) |
| 5.12.1936 | "24th CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20" |
| 5.12.1941 | Football Writers Association of America organized |
| 5.12.1941 | "Patrick Hamilton's ""Angel Street,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 5.12.1941 | Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army |
| 5.12.1941 | Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved |
| 5.12.1941 | US aircraft carrier Lexington/5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor |
| 5.12.1942 | "CFL Grey Cup: Tor beats Win RCAF, 8 -5 at Toronto" |
| 5.12.1942 | Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work |
| 5.12.1942 | West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland |
| 5.12.1943 | NFL Philadelphia Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves |
| 5.12.1944 | German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht |
| 5.12.1945 | """Lost Squadron"" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)" |
| 5.12.1945 | Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl |
| 5.12.1946 | President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order 9808 |
| 5.12.1947 | Joe Louis beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 5.12.1948 | New York Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions |
| 5.12.1949 | Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title |
| 5.12.1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 5.12.1950 | Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India |
| 5.12.1951 | """Dragnet"" premieres" |
| 5.12.1952 | "Worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die" |
| 5.12.1954 | "KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.12.1955 | "AFL and CIO merge, with George Meany as president" |
| 5.12.1955 | Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks |
| 5.12.1956 | "Thornton Wilder's ""Matchmaker,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 5.12.1957 | New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law) |
| 5.12.1957 | "William Inge's ""Dark at the Top of the Stairs,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 5.12.1958 | Phils drop plans for New York sportcast as Yanks threat to do same in Phila |
| 5.12.1958 | "WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.12.1959 | Intikhab Alam bowls Colin McDonald with 1st ball in Tests |
| 5.12.1960 | Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium |
| 5.12.1966 | """I Do! I Do!"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 561 performances" |
| 5.12.1967 | Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war |
| 5.12.1967 | "Beatles clothing store ""Apple"" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens" |
| 5.12.1968 | "Rolling Stones release ""Beggar's Banquet"" LP" |
| 5.12.1969 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 5.12.1970 | Los Angeles Rams Willie Ellison sets NFL record of 247 yards rushing |
| 5.12.1970 | "Stanley Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy and Bill Masterson trophy stolen from NHL hall of fame" |
| 5.12.1971 | "KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast" |
| 5.12.1972 | "38th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska (FL)" |
| 5.12.1972 | Australia Labour party wins parliamentary election |
| 5.12.1972 | "Joseph A Walkers ""River Niger,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 5.12.1973 | Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade |
| 5.12.1973 | Dodgers trade Willie Davis to Expos for relief pitcher Mike Marshall |
| 5.12.1973 | "Paul McCartney releases ""Band on the Run"" album" |
| 5.12.1974 | "1st Washington Capitals penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres" |
| 5.12.1974 | "1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida" |
| 5.12.1974 | Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran) |
| 5.12.1974 | Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC |
| 5.12.1974 | """Monty Python's Flying Circus"" last shown on BBC" |
| 5.12.1974 | NFL's Seattle Seahawks forms |
| 5.12.1974 | Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named |
| 5.12.1974 | Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Washington Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot |
| 5.12.1975 | """Me and Bessie"" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 453 performances" |
| 5.12.1975 | "NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed" |
| 5.12.1976 | Buffalo Bill OJ Simpson rushes 203 yards |
| 5.12.1977 | "Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and S Yemen" |
| 5.12.1978 | "EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System" |
| 5.12.1978 | "Free agent Pete Rose signs 4-year, $32 million contract with Phillies" |
| 5.12.1978 | Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 5.12.1978 | Phillies Pete Rose becomes highest paid baseball player |
| 5.12.1978 | Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus |
| 5.12.1978 | "Sam Shepard's ""Buried Child,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 5.12.1979 | Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns |
| 5.12.1980 | Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens |
| 5.12.1981 | "47th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Allen, Southern California (RB)" |
| 5.12.1981 | 56th Australian Women Tennis: Navratilova beats Chris Evert (67 64 75) |
| 5.12.1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 5.12.1982 | Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 33 pass completions |
| 5.12.1982 | Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy |
| 5.12.1982 | Ingrid Berghmans (Neth) retains judo's world championship |
| 5.12.1982 | Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions |
| 5.12.1982 | Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees |
| 5.12.1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 5.12.1983 | 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut |
| 5.12.1983 | Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use |
| 5.12.1984 | A's trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell and Jose Rijo |
| 5.12.1984 | French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia |
| 5.12.1984 | Yankees trade catcher Rick Cerone to Braves for pitcher Brian Fisher |
| 5.12.1985 | "Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time" |
| 5.12.1985 | Great Britain performs nuclear test |
| 5.12.1985 | "Sam Shepard's ""Lie of the Mind,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 5.12.1987 | "53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)" |
| 5.12.1987 | "David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 vs. NZ at Brisbane" |
| 5.12.1987 | Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76) |
| 5.12.1988 | North Carolina fed grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy |
| 5.12.1988 | Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite |
| 5.12.1989 | France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph |
| 5.12.1990 | Blue Jays trade F McGriff and T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar and J Carter |
| 5.12.1990 | Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty |
| 5.12.1990 | "Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years" |
| 5.12.1991 | """Catskills on Broadway"" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 452 performances" |
| 5.12.1991 | "Charles Keating, Jr. (Lincoln Savings and Loan fraud), found guilty" |
| 5.12.1991 | NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 |
| 5.12.1993 | 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1) |
| 5.12.1993 | Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space |
| 5.12.1993 | Melissa Mcnamara/Mike Sopringer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 5.12.1993 | Newhart actor William Sanderson (47) weds Sharon Wix (39) |
| 5.12.1993 | Rafael Caldera elected president of Venezuela |
| 5.12.1993 | """Timon of Athens"" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 37 performances" |
| 5.12.1996 | """Dreams and Nightmares,"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City" |
| 5.12.1996 | Players union approves new collective bargaining agreement |
| 5.12.1996 | "Portland's Jermaine O'Neal, 18, becomes youngest NBA player" |
| 5.12.1997 | 1st Game at Washington Capitals' MCI Center vs. Florida Panthers |
| 5.12.1997 | STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands |
| 6.12.963 | Leo VIII elected Pope |
| 6.12.1160 | "Jean Bodels ""Jeu de St. Nicholas,"" premieres in Arras" |
| 6.12.1196 | "Northern Dutch coast flooded, ""Saint-Nicolaas Flood""" |
| 6.12.1240 | Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev |
| 6.12.1424 | Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews |
| 6.12.1491 | King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne |
| 6.12.1492 | "Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mole Saint Nicolas" |
| 6.12.1527 | Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto |
| 6.12.1534 | "Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish" |
| 6.12.1631 | 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed |
| 6.12.1641 | Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands |
| 6.12.1648 | Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament |
| 6.12.1723 | Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution |
| 6.12.1732 | "1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City" |
| 6.12.1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland |
| 6.12.1756 | British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India |
| 6.12.1768 | "1st edition of ""Encyclopedia Brittanica"" published (Scotland)" |
| 6.12.1787 | Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor |
| 6.12.1790 | "Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary U.S. capital" |
| 6.12.1820 | US president James Monroe re-elected |
| 6.12.1822 | Veterinary school in Utrecht opens |
| 6.12.1825 | President John Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory |
| 6.12.1833 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata |
| 6.12.1841 | "Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres" |
| 6.12.1843 | Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens |
| 6.12.1846 | "Opera ""La Damnation de Faust"" is produced (Paris)" |
| 6.12.1849 | Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland |
| 6.12.1862 | President Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians |
| 6.12.1864 | "Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC" |
| 6.12.1865 | "13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery" |
| 6.12.1866 | "Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed" |
| 6.12.1870 | "Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Representatives (SC)" |
| 6.12.1873 | "1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1" |
| 6.12.1875 | 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes |
| 6.12.1876 | "1st crematorium in U.S. begins operation, Washington, Penn" |
| 6.12.1876 | City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time |
| 6.12.1876 | US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as President (although Tilden won) |
| 6.12.1877 | 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison) |
| 6.12.1877 | Washington Post publishes 1st edition |
| 6.12.1882 | Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit |
| 6.12.1884 | "Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC" |
| 6.12.1896 | "D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura" |
| 6.12.1903 | Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders |
| 6.12.1904 | Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) |
| 6.12.1907 | "Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361" |
| 6.12.1912 | China votes for universal human rights |
| 6.12.1913 | White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo |
| 6.12.1914 | German troops over run Lodz |
| 6.12.1916 | German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest |
| 6.12.1917 | Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day) |
| 6.12.1917 | "French munition ship ""Mont Blanc"" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700" |
| 6.12.1921 | Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland |
| 6.12.1922 | 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation |
| 6.12.1922 | "1st electric power line commercial carrier in U.S., Utica, New York" |
| 6.12.1923 | 1st presidential address broadcast on radio (President Calvin Coolidge) |
| 6.12.1925 | "Italy, Britain and Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)" |
| 6.12.1925 | "Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 19-7" |
| 6.12.1929 | Turkey introduces female suffrage |
| 6.12.1930 | "18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6" |
| 6.12.1930 | Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia |
| 6.12.1933 | "Ban on James Joyce' ""Ulysses"" in U.S., lifted" |
| 6.12.1938 | 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands |
| 6.12.1938 | French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) |
| 6.12.1939 | "5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)" |
| 6.12.1939 | "Cole Porter's musical ""Du Barry was a Lady,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 6.12.1940 | Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst |
| 6.12.1940 | Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia |
| 6.12.1941 | Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore |
| 6.12.1941 | King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels |
| 6.12.1941 | New York City Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens |
| 6.12.1942 | Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth |
| 6.12.1942 | RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) |
| 6.12.1944 | US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall |
| 6.12.1950 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud |
| 6.12.1952 | "Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata" |
| 6.12.1953 | "Brown's Lou ""Toe"" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14" |
| 6.12.1954 | Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt |
| 6.12.1955 | "NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won ""$64,000 Question"" on boxing" |
| 6.12.1956 | """Happy Hunting"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 413 performances" |
| 6.12.1956 | Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa |
| 6.12.1957 | 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up |
| 6.12.1957 | AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) |
| 6.12.1957 | Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions |
| 6.12.1958 | "U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back" |
| 6.12.1960 | "AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels" |
| 6.12.1961 | "27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)" |
| 6.12.1962 | US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program |
| 6.12.1963 | Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans |
| 6.12.1963 | Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba |
| 6.12.1964 | "KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.12.1964 | President Segni of Italy resigns |
| 6.12.1965 | 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125 |
| 6.12.1966 | Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium |
| 6.12.1967 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 6.12.1968 | Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years |
| 6.12.1968 | PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn |
| 6.12.1968 | "WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast" |
| 6.12.1969 | "300,000 attend Altamont California rock concert feature Rolling Stones" |
| 6.12.1969 | """Buck White"" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 7 performances" |
| 6.12.1969 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 6.12.1970 | "Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106" |
| 6.12.1971 | Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
| 6.12.1973 | Bahrain's constitution goes into effect |
| 6.12.1973 | "Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew" |
| 6.12.1973 | NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington D.C. (doesn't happen) |
| 6.12.1974 | "George Harrison releases ""Ding Dong, Ding Dong""" |
| 6.12.1975 | "41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB)" |
| 6.12.1975 | Sen Robert Dole and Elizabeth Hanford marry |
| 6.12.1976 | War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich |
| 6.12.1977 | South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence |
| 6.12.1978 | Spain adopts constitution |
| 6.12.1980 | Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn |
| 6.12.1980 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 6.12.1981 | Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18 |
| 6.12.1982 | Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce |
| 6.12.1982 | "11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland" |
| 6.12.1982 | "Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed" |
| 6.12.1983 | "A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis" |
| 6.12.1984 | France performs nuclear test |
| 6.12.1984 | Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage |
| 6.12.1986 | "52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Florida (QB)" |
| 6.12.1986 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 6.12.1987 | "3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for ""fun""" |
| 6.12.1987 | Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec) |
| 6.12.1987 | Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 6.12.1988 | Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles |
| 6.12.1988 | "Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden" |
| 6.12.1988 | Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela |
| 6.12.1988 | Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets vs. WI at the WACA but Australia lose |
| 6.12.1988 | "Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)" |
| 6.12.1988 | "Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown" |
| 6.12.1988 | STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission |
| 6.12.1989 | "Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52" |
| 6.12.1989 | Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal |
| 6.12.1990 | NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 6.12.1990 | Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages |
| 6.12.1990 | "Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100" |
| 6.12.1991 | """Les Miserables"" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen" |
| 6.12.1991 | """Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country"" premieres" |
| 6.12.1992 | "300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die" |
| 6.12.1992 | 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1) |
| 6.12.1992 | Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 6.12.1992 | San Francisco Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds |
| 6.12.1992 | SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown |
| 6.12.1993 | Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29 |
| 6.12.1994 | "Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590" |
| 6.12.1994 | Orange County California files for bankruptcy |
| 6.12.1994 | "Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995" |
| 6.12.1995 | 6th Billboard Music Awards |
| 6.12.1995 | Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special |
| 6.12.1996 | Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match |
| 6.12.1998 | JC Penney Golf Classic |
| 7.12.185 | "Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)" |
| 7.12.283 | St. Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 7.12.1354 | Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty |
| 7.12.1646 | Princess Louise Henriette (19) marries monarch Frederik Henry |
| 7.12.1741 | Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia |
| 7.12.1783 | "Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London" |
| 7.12.1783 | "William Pitt, Jr. (24) becomes British premier" |
| 7.12.1787 | Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution |
| 7.12.1808 | James Madison elected U.S. pres/George Clinton vice-pres |
| 7.12.1835 | German railway Neurenberg-Furth opens |
| 7.12.1836 | Martin Van Buren elected 8th president |
| 7.12.1842 | NY Philharmonic's 1st concert |
| 7.12.1862 | "Battle of Hartsville, TN" |
| 7.12.1862 | "Battle of Prairie Grove, AR" |
| 7.12.1864 | "Skirmish at Ebenezer Creek/Cypress Swamp, Georgia" |
| 7.12.1868 | "Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1" |
| 7.12.1872 | HMS Challenger sets sail on 3 -year world oceanographic cruise |
| 7.12.1875 | Natives Sons of the West organized |
| 7.12.1876 | NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked |
| 7.12.1877 | Thomas A Edison demonstrates the gramophone |
| 7.12.1885 | 49th Congress (1885-87) convenes |
| 7.12.1889 | "Gilbert and Sullivans ""Gondoliers,"" premieres in London" |
| 7.12.1891 | 52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session |
| 7.12.1895 | Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies |
| 7.12.1907 | Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring |
| 7.12.1909 | "Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)" |
| 7.12.1911 | "Leslie J Stuarts musical ""Betsy,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.12.1911 | "Natl Hockey Association forms with New Westminister, Vancouver and Victoria" |
| 7.12.1912 | "Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt" |
| 7.12.1916 | British government of David Lloyd George forms |
| 7.12.1916 | David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM |
| 7.12.1917 | U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I |
| 7.12.1920 | "NSW make 802 against South Australia, then Mailey takes 8-81" |
| 7.12.1920 | USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany |
| 7.12.1921 | KWG-AM in Stockton California begins radio transmissions |
| 7.12.1924 | German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose) |
| 7.12.1925 | Biltmore Theater opens at 261 W 47th St. New York City |
| 7.12.1925 | "Noel Coward's ""Easy Virtue,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.12.1926 | Gas refrigerator patented |
| 7.12.1929 | Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 mins |
| 7.12.1929 | Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament |
| 7.12.1930 | 13th PGA Championship: Tommy Armour at Fresh Meadows CC Flushing |
| 7.12.1931 | "Bradman scores 219 NSW vs. South Africa, 234 mins, 15 fours" |
| 7.12.1932 | 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY |
| 7.12.1934 | Wiley Post discovers jet stream |
| 7.12.1935 | "CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton" |
| 7.12.1937 | Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work |
| 7.12.1937 | Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams |
| 7.12.1937 | Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe |
| 7.12.1938 | "Philip Barry's ""Here Come the Clowns,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.12.1938 | W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St. Louis Post-Dispatch by radio |
| 7.12.1939 | "Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame" |
| 7.12.1939 | William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland |
| 7.12.1940 | "28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 2): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 12-5" |
| 7.12.1940 | North Africa: British counter offensive under general O'Connor |
| 7.12.1941 | 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward) |
| 7.12.1941 | Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon |
| 7.12.1941 | Futshida's air fleet passes coastline of Oahu |
| 7.12.1941 | German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends |
| 7.12.1941 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy) |
| 7.12.1941 | "Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps" |
| 7.12.1943 | Cairo: president Roosevelt travels back to the US |
| 7.12.1944 | Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago |
| 7.12.1944 | General Radescu forms Romanian government |
| 7.12.1945 | Microwave oven patented |
| 7.12.1946 | "Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119" |
| 7.12.1949 | "15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)" |
| 7.12.1949 | Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan |
| 7.12.1952 | "KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 7.12.1953 | Israel's PM Ben-Gurion retires |
| 7.12.1953 | "WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.12.1954 | "Japanese government of Joshida, resigns" |
| 7.12.1954 | "KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.12.1955 | Clement Attlee resigns as chairman of England's Labour Party |
| 7.12.1956 | Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel |
| 7.12.1957 | Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year |
| 7.12.1958 | Romulo Betancourt elected President of Venezuela |
| 7.12.1959 | """Saratoga"" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 80 performances" |
| 7.12.1960 | Ivory Coast claims independence from France |
| 7.12.1962 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 7.12.1963 | Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans |
| 7.12.1964 | George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs |
| 7.12.1965 | Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 |
| 7.12.1967 | """How Now, Dow Jones"" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 220 performances" |
| 7.12.1967 | "Otis Rescue records ""Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay""" |
| 7.12.1968 | M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923 |
| 7.12.1968 | Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit |
| 7.12.1968 | Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823 |
| 7.12.1970 | "Taizan Maezumi Roshi, head of LA Zen Center, receives dharma" |
| 7.12.1970 | West Germany and Poland normalize relations |
| 7.12.1971 | """Wild and Wonderful"" opens/closes at Lyceum Theater New York City" |
| 7.12.1971 | "Wings release their 1st album ""Wild Life""" |
| 7.12.1972 | "Apollo 17 (U.S.), final manned lunar landing mission, launched" |
| 7.12.1972 | Philippine's 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed and wounded by an assailant |
| 7.12.1973 | Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies |
| 7.12.1973 | Phillies sell infielder-outfielder Cesar Tovar to the Texas Rangers |
| 7.12.1973 | "Wings release ""Band on the Run""" |
| 7.12.1975 | 10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres |
| 7.12.1975 | Archbishop Makarios returns Cyprus |
| 7.12.1975 | Indonesian army occupies East Timor |
| 7.12.1975 | Pat Bradley wins Colgate-Far East Ladies Tournament Golf Tournament |
| 7.12.1976 | "U.N. Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term" |
| 7.12.1977 | Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0 |
| 7.12.1978 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick |
| 7.12.1981 | Spain becomes a member of the NATO alliance |
| 7.12.1982 | Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building |
| 7.12.1983 | 2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93 |
| 7.12.1983 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 7.12.1984 | Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide) |
| 7.12.1985 | "51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB)" |
| 7.12.1985 | Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 7.12.1986 | Juli Inkster/Tom Purtzer wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 7.12.1986 | President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti |
| 7.12.1987 | 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) |
| 7.12.1987 | Gorbachev arrives in U.S. for a summit meeting |
| 7.12.1987 | "Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43" |
| 7.12.1987 | Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank |
| 7.12.1988 | "Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)" |
| 7.12.1988 | "Earthquake in Armenia (>25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)" |
| 7.12.1988 | Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN |
| 7.12.1988 | Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in New York City |
| 7.12.1988 | "New York Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach" |
| 7.12.1988 | Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract |
| 7.12.1988 | "6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed" |
| 7.12.1989 | "C Coleman and D Zippel's musical ""City of Angels,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.12.1990 | Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages |
| 7.12.1990 | Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement |
| 7.12.1991 | "A J Kitt, U.S., wins World Skiing Cup" |
| 7.12.1992 | Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) |
| 7.12.1993 | Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast |
| 7.12.1993 | Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery |
| 7.12.1994 | 5th Billboard Music Awards |
| 7.12.1994 | Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide |
| 7.12.1995 | "NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12" |
| 7.12.1995 | U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter |
| 7.12.1996 | "Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands" |
| 7.12.1997 | Amy Fruhwirth and Clarence Rose win LPGA J C Penney Classic |
| 8.12.1326 | "Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi" |
| 8.12.1710 | Battle at Brihuega: English Gen Stanhope captured |
| 8.12.1776 | George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ |
| 8.12.1777 | Capt Cook leaves Society Islands |
| 8.12.1792 | "1st cremation in U.S., Henry Laurens" |
| 8.12.1794 | "1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published" |
| 8.12.1813 | "Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres" |
| 8.12.1846 | "Hector Berlioz's ""La Damnation de Faust,"" premieres" |
| 8.12.1849 | "Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Luisa Miller,"" premieres in Naples" |
| 8.12.1852 | "Gustav Freytag's ""Die Journalisten,"" premieres in Breslau" |
| 8.12.1854 | "Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin" |
| 8.12.1857 | "1st production of Dion Boucicaults ""Poor of NY""" |
| 8.12.1863 | "2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile" |
| 8.12.1863 | Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South |
| 8.12.1863 | "Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic" |
| 8.12.1863 | President Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters |
| 8.12.1864 | "Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura (""Syllabus errorum"")" |
| 8.12.1869 | "20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome" |
| 8.12.1874 | Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas |
| 8.12.1875 | "Aleksandr Ostrovsky's ""Volki i Ovsty,"" premieres in St. Petersburg" |
| 8.12.1876 | Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years |
| 8.12.1880 | "5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa" |
| 8.12.1881 | "Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850" |
| 8.12.1886 | American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
| 8.12.1895 | Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out |
| 8.12.1896 | "Start of Sherlock Holmes ""Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter""" |
| 8.12.1899 | Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith |
| 8.12.1902 | "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. became Associate Justice on Supreme Court" |
| 8.12.1909 | Bird banding society found |
| 8.12.1913 | Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF |
| 8.12.1914 | British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island |
| 8.12.1914 | Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox |
| 8.12.1914 | "Irving Berlin's musical ""Watch your Step,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.12.1915 | "Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres" |
| 8.12.1921 | Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty |
| 8.12.1923 | German-US friendship treaty signed |
| 8.12.1923 | Labour/Liberals win British parliament |
| 8.12.1923 | Salary and price freeze in Germany |
| 8.12.1930 | Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway New York City |
| 8.12.1930 | "Cole Porter's musical ""NYCers,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.12.1931 | Coaxial cable patented |
| 8.12.1934 | "Friedrich Wolf's ""Professor Mamlock,"" premieres in Zurich" |
| 8.12.1936 | Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua |
| 8.12.1936 | NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black and white teachers |
| 8.12.1938 | Highest temperature for December in U.S. recorded in La Mesa California |
| 8.12.1938 | LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police |
| 8.12.1940 | 1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0 |
| 8.12.1941 | Destruction Camp Chelmo opens |
| 8.12.1941 | London: Dutch government declares Japan the war |
| 8.12.1941 | Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo |
| 8.12.1941 | "SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM" |
| 8.12.1941 | "US and Britain declare war on Japan, U.S. enters WW II" |
| 8.12.1942 | "8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)" |
| 8.12.1943 | "John Van Druten's ""Voice of the Turtle,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.12.1946 | Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight |
| 8.12.1947 | """Caribbean Carnival"" opens at International Theater New York City for 11 performances" |
| 8.12.1948 | "14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)" |
| 8.12.1948 | Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine |
| 8.12.1948 | """Marinka"" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 168 performances" |
| 8.12.1949 | Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa |
| 8.12.1949 | """Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 740 performances" |
| 8.12.1949 | "Jule Styne's ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.12.1951 | "AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games" |
| 8.12.1951 | """Tree Grows in Brooklyn"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 267 performances" |
| 8.12.1952 | 1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy) |
| 8.12.1952 | "French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die" |
| 8.12.1952 | Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel |
| 8.12.1953 | "19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)" |
| 8.12.1954 | "Maxwell Anderson's ""Bad Seed,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.12.1954 | "WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.12.1955 | "21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)" |
| 8.12.1955 | Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award |
| 8.12.1955 | Turkish government of Menderes forms |
| 8.12.1956 | "16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia" |
| 8.12.1956 | "1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0" |
| 8.12.1956 | "Guy Mitchell's ""Singing the Blues,"" single goes #1 for 10 weeks" |
| 8.12.1959 | Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta |
| 8.12.1959 | President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs. Aust Test Cricket at Karachi |
| 8.12.1960 | Expansion LA Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium |
| 8.12.1961 | Antwerp Belgium diocese forms |
| 8.12.1961 | Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec) |
| 8.12.1961 | "South Africa vs. NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock" |
| 8.12.1961 | Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78 |
| 8.12.1962 | 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City |
| 8.12.1962 | Failed coup in Brunei |
| 8.12.1962 | "Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)" |
| 8.12.1962 | """I Can Get It For You Wholesale"" closes at Shubert New York City after 300 performances" |
| 8.12.1963 | "3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die" |
| 8.12.1963 | """Girl Who Came to Supper"" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 112 performances" |
| 8.12.1963 | "Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan, Jr. wins LPGA Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Golf" |
| 8.12.1965 | "Abe Burrows' ""Cactus Flower,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.12.1965 | Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R. |
| 8.12.1965 | Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council |
| 8.12.1966 | "A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith" |
| 8.12.1966 | US and U.S.S.R. sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
| 8.12.1967 | "Beatles ""Magical Mystery Tour"" album is released in UK" |
| 8.12.1967 | NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals |
| 8.12.1969 | "Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed" |
| 8.12.1969 | Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA |
| 8.12.1972 | United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 |
| 8.12.1973 | "39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)" |
| 8.12.1973 | """Seesaw"" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 296 performances" |
| 8.12.1974 | Greek monarchy rejected by referendum |
| 8.12.1974 | Irish Republican Socialist Party forms |
| 8.12.1974 | Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
| 8.12.1974 | Soyuz 16 returns to Earth |
| 8.12.1975 | """Raisin"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 847 performances" |
| 8.12.1976 | U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General |
| 8.12.1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.12.1977 | "43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)" |
| 8.12.1977 | Portugal's premier Soares resigns |
| 8.12.1978 | Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park |
| 8.12.1980 | Bravo network premieres on cable TV |
| 8.12.1981 | France performs nuclear test |
| 8.12.1982 | Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot |
| 8.12.1982 | "Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives" |
| 8.12.1982 | """Herman Van Veen: All of Him"" opens at Ambassador New York City for 6 performances" |
| 8.12.1982 | Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents |
| 8.12.1983 | 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - lands at Edwards AFB |
| 8.12.1983 | "Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center" |
| 8.12.1984 | 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62) |
| 8.12.1984 | Europe and 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty |
| 8.12.1984 | Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live |
| 8.12.1985 | 60th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62) |
| 8.12.1985 | Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (New York Jet record) to Wesley Walker |
| 8.12.1985 | Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 8.12.1986 | House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker |
| 8.12.1987 | Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal |
| 8.12.1987 | Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
| 8.12.1987 | "Occupied Palestinians start ""intefadeh"" (uprising) against Israel" |
| 8.12.1987 | President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles |
| 8.12.1988 | "Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers and sink Bucks, 113-109" |
| 8.12.1989 | Great Britain performs nuclear test |
| 8.12.1990 | Galileo Earth-1 Flyby |
| 8.12.1990 | Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
| 8.12.1991 | """Homecoming"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 49 performances" |
| 8.12.1991 | Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 8.12.1991 | """Nick and Nora"" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 9 performances" |
| 8.12.1991 | "Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States" |
| 8.12.1992 | Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km) |
| 8.12.1992 | "NBC announces that ""Cheers"" will go off the air in May, 1993" |
| 8.12.1993 | 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria |
| 8.12.1993 | 4th Billboard Music Awards |
| 8.12.1993 | Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53 |
| 8.12.1993 | "Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England" |
| 8.12.1994 | Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges |
| 8.12.1994 | "Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed" |
| 8.12.1994 | """What's Wrong With this Picture?"" opens at Circle in Sq New York City for 12 per" |
| 8.12.1996 | Donna Andrews and Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 8.12.1996 | """God Said, Ha!"" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 22 performances" |
| 8.12.1997 | 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes and Spice Girls win |
| 9.12.536 | Byzantines Libya occupies Rome on Ostrogoten |
| 9.12.656 | Battle of Kameel: Kalief Al ibn Abu Talib beats rebellion |
| 9.12.1212 | Frederik II crowns himself Roman Catholic king |
| 9.12.1315 | Swiss Woudsteden renews Eternal Covenant (Oath Society) |
| 9.12.1425 | Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven |
| 9.12.1570 | Geuzen under Herman de Ruyter occupies Loevestein |
| 9.12.1625 | Netherlands and England sign military treaty |
| 9.12.1640 | Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin |
| 9.12.1658 | Dutch troops occupy harbor city Quilon (Coilan) India |
| 9.12.1688 | King James II's wife and son flee England for France |
| 9.12.1724 | "Colley Cibber's ""Caesar in Aegypt,"" premieres in London" |
| 9.12.1738 | Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia |
| 9.12.1747 | England and Netherlands sign military treaty |
| 9.12.1762 | British parliament accept Treaty of Paris |
| 9.12.1783 | 1st execution at English Newgate-jail |
| 9.12.1793 | "Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva" |
| 9.12.1805 | Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth |
| 9.12.1824 | "Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain" |
| 9.12.1842 | "St. M Glinka's opera ""Russlan Ludmilla,"" premieres in Petersburg" |
| 9.12.1851 | 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montreal) |
| 9.12.1854 | "Lord Tennyson's poem, ""Charge of the Light Brigade,"" published" |
| 9.12.1861 | "Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)" |
| 9.12.1868 | 1st British government of Gladstone forms |
| 9.12.1869 | "Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia" |
| 9.12.1878 | "Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500" |
| 9.12.1883 | New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902) |
| 9.12.1884 | Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate |
| 9.12.1889 | President Harrison visits opening of Chicago Auditorium |
| 9.12.1894 | Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium |
| 9.12.1900 | Dutch President Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession |
| 9.12.1902 | AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY |
| 9.12.1903 | Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage |
| 9.12.1905 | French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state |
| 9.12.1905 | "Richard Strauss' opera ""Salome,"" premiers in Dresden" |
| 9.12.1906 | NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed U.S. Senate commission on the Congo |
| 9.12.1907 | 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) |
| 9.12.1907 | Gustav Mahler departs Vienna |
| 9.12.1909 | "1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York)" |
| 9.12.1910 | French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir |
| 9.12.1913 | Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris |
| 9.12.1913 | John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 9.12.1917 | British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem |
| 9.12.1918 | French troops occupies Mainz |
| 9.12.1922 | Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president |
| 9.12.1924 | Dutch and Hungary trade treaty signed |
| 9.12.1924 | Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president |
| 9.12.1925 | "AL extends Ban Johnson's contract to 1935 and raise to $40,000" |
| 9.12.1925 | "Pro football a hit in New York City; Grange and Bears beat Giants before 73,000" |
| 9.12.1926 | USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs |
| 9.12.1931 | Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers |
| 9.12.1931 | "Benn W Levy's ""Springtime for Henry,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 9.12.1931 | Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol |
| 9.12.1931 | Spain becomes a republic |
| 9.12.1933 | "21st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Sarnia Imperials, 4-3" |
| 9.12.1933 | Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard |
| 9.12.1934 | New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship |
| 9.12.1936 | AL OKs night baseball for St. Louis |
| 9.12.1936 | Australia all out 58 vs. Eng Bradman out for a duck |
| 9.12.1939 | "27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7" |
| 9.12.1939 | Russian air raid on Helsinki |
| 9.12.1940 | British assault on Banghazi Libya |
| 9.12.1940 | British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II |
| 9.12.1940 | Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius |
| 9.12.1940 | "South Australia all out for 47 vs. NSW, O'Reilly 5-11" |
| 9.12.1941 | "1st U.S. WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines" |
| 9.12.1941 | "300 Montgomery, San Francisco opens as new Bank of America HQ" |
| 9.12.1941 | "7th Heisman Trophy Award: Bruce Smith, Minnesota (HB)" |
| 9.12.1941 | "China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy" |
| 9.12.1941 | "Citizen Register reports ""Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester""" |
| 9.12.1941 | Hitler orders U.S. ships torpedoed |
| 9.12.1948 | U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide |
| 9.12.1949 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty |
| 9.12.1949 | "NFL merges Cleveland Browns, San Francisco '49ers and Baltimore Colts from AAFC" |
| 9.12.1951 | "Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germ" |
| 9.12.1953 | General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired |
| 9.12.1953 | Mont Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins |
| 9.12.1954 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj appointed honored guest of Swed Royal Music Acad |
| 9.12.1957 | 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel |
| 9.12.1958 | "Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society" |
| 9.12.1960 | "1st broadcast of ""Coronation Street"" on British ITV" |
| 9.12.1961 | """From the Second City"" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 87 performances" |
| 9.12.1961 | """Let It Ride"" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 68 performances" |
| 9.12.1961 | SS Col Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel |
| 9.12.1961 | Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania |
| 9.12.1961 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs NY |
| 9.12.1962 | """I Can Get It For You Wholesale"" closes on Broadway" |
| 9.12.1962 | Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth |
| 9.12.1963 | Frank Sinatra Jr. is kidnapped |
| 9.12.1963 | Zanzibar gains independence from Britain |
| 9.12.1965 | """A Charlie Brown Christmas,"" premieres" |
| 9.12.1965 | Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles |
| 9.12.1965 | Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium |
| 9.12.1967 | "Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace" |
| 9.12.1967 | Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House |
| 9.12.1967 | Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania |
| 9.12.1968 | "KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.12.1970 | Dutch Antilles: government of Petronia falls |
| 9.12.1971 | "Lewis F Powell, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court" |
| 9.12.1973 | "Bruno Sammartino beats Stan Stasiak in NY, to become WWF champ" |
| 9.12.1973 | """Pajama Game"" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 65 performances" |
| 9.12.1973 | St. Louis Cardinal Jim Bakken kicks 6 field goals vs Atlanta Falcons |
| 9.12.1973 | Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland |
| 9.12.1974 | Dow Jones index hits 570.01 |
| 9.12.1974 | "Jack Brisco beats Giant Baba in Tokyo, to become NWA wrestling champ" |
| 9.12.1974 | Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail |
| 9.12.1975 | Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize |
| 9.12.1975 | President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 B loan-authorization for New York City |
| 9.12.1978 | "1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does" |
| 9.12.1978 | Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus |
| 9.12.1979 | Murle Breer/Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 9.12.1980 | 61 degrees F in Boston at 1 AM |
| 9.12.1982 | Mary-Beth and William Hurt divorce |
| 9.12.1983 | "Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens ""...because food is free and that's easier than paying for it""" |
| 9.12.1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 9.12.1984 | 59th Australian Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats H Sukova (67 61 63) |
| 9.12.1984 | 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends |
| 9.12.1984 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 9.12.1984 | Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane |
| 9.12.1984 | "LA Ram Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,003 yards" |
| 9.12.1984 | Vicki Alvarez/Mike McDonald wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 9.12.1985 | 74th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Mats Wilander (64 63 63) |
| 9.12.1985 | Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions |
| 9.12.1985 | "Phoenix Arizona, gets 3 inches of snow" |
| 9.12.1987 | "Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws" |
| 9.12.1987 | Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank |
| 9.12.1988 | New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with MSG for $500M |
| 9.12.1989 | """Les Miserables"" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne" |
| 9.12.1990 | Betsy King wins Itoman LPGA World Match Play Golf Championship |
| 9.12.1990 | Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80) |
| 9.12.1990 | "Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14" |
| 9.12.1990 | Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland |
| 9.12.1990 | "NFL New York Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard" |
| 9.12.1991 | 2nd Billboard Music Awards |
| 9.12.1992 | 3rd Billboard Music Awards |
| 9.12.1992 | Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks |
| 9.12.1992 | "New Jersey Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season" |
| 9.12.1992 | Operation Restore Hope - U.S. Marines land in Somalia |
| 9.12.1992 | Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v NZ by 9 wkts) |
| 9.12.1993 | Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns |
| 9.12.1993 | """My Fair Lady"" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 165 performances" |
| 9.12.1994 | "5m meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth" |
| 9.12.1994 | Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after masturbation comments |
| 9.12.1995 | "61st Heisman Trophy Award: Eddie George, Ohio State (RB)" |
| 10.12.741 | Zacharias becomes Pope |
| 10.12.1294 | Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th) |
| 10.12.1508 | League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice) |
| 10.12.1520 | Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant |
| 10.12.1582 | France begins use of Gregorian calendar |
| 10.12.1652 | Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet |
| 10.12.1672 | NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York and Boston |
| 10.12.1688 | King James II flees London |
| 10.12.1690 | Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money |
| 10.12.1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester |
| 10.12.1799 | Metric system established in France |
| 10.12.1810 | Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds) |
| 10.12.1816 | Dutch regain Sumatra |
| 10.12.1817 | Mississippi admitted as 20th state |
| 10.12.1831 | """Spirit of the Times"" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)" |
| 10.12.1864 | General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins |
| 10.12.1869 | Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (U.S. 1st) |
| 10.12.1882 | "John Brahms' ""Gesang der the Parzen,"" premieres" |
| 10.12.1887 | Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan |
| 10.12.1896 | 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3) |
| 10.12.1896 | "Alfred Jarry's ""Ubu Roi,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 10.12.1898 | "Spanish-American War ends; U.S. acquires Philippines, PR and Guam" |
| 10.12.1899 | Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army |
| 10.12.1899 | "British ""Black Week"" due to nederlagen in South Africa" |
| 10.12.1899 | "Frank Wedekind's ""Der Kammersang,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 10.12.1901 | "1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)" |
| 10.12.1903 | Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie |
| 10.12.1904 | King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime |
| 10.12.1906 | President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
| 10.12.1907 | Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature |
| 10.12.1910 | JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics |
| 10.12.1911 | Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of U.S. by airplane (84 days) |
| 10.12.1911 | Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace |
| 10.12.1913 | Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics |
| 10.12.1914 | French government returns to Paris |
| 10.12.1915 | "10,000,000th model T Ford assembled" |
| 10.12.1915 | President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt |
| 10.12.1918 | John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 10.12.1919 | NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers |
| 10.12.1919 | Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson |
| 10.12.1919 | "NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties" |
| 10.12.1922 | "Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein" |
| 10.12.1922 | "Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards" |
| 10.12.1923 | "Polish government of Grabski, forms" |
| 10.12.1924 | "Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years" |
| 10.12.1924 | Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine |
| 10.12.1925 | George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel |
| 10.12.1926 | 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS) |
| 10.12.1926 | 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published |
| 10.12.1927 | "Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN" |
| 10.12.1929 | Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st |
| 10.12.1931 | Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize |
| 10.12.1931 | Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain |
| 10.12.1932 | King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution |
| 10.12.1934 | Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp |
| 10.12.1934 | NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season |
| 10.12.1934 | Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite |
| 10.12.1935 | "A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000" |
| 10.12.1935 | "White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000" |
| 10.12.1936 | England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI |
| 10.12.1936 | King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson |
| 10.12.1936 | Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry |
| 10.12.1938 | "26th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7" |
| 10.12.1938 | "Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood" |
| 10.12.1939 | "Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat New York Giants 27-0" |
| 10.12.1939 | KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary |
| 10.12.1940 | British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani) |
| 10.12.1941 | British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore |
| 10.12.1941 | Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines |
| 10.12.1941 | Japanese troops overrun Guam |
| 10.12.1942 | "Hitler names Mussert ""leader of Netherland people""" |
| 10.12.1942 | North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under col-gen von Arnim |
| 10.12.1943 | British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy |
| 10.12.1944 | 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis |
| 10.12.1944 | German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar |
| 10.12.1945 | Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts |
| 10.12.1945 | "Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car" |
| 10.12.1947 | U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement |
| 10.12.1948 | U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| 10.12.1950 | Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize |
| 10.12.1952 | Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
| 10.12.1952 | "WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.12.1952 | Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel |
| 10.12.1953 | """John Murray Anderson's Almanac"" opens at Imperial New York City for 229 performances" |
| 10.12.1953 | "KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.12.1953 | "WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins" |
| 10.12.1954 | Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize |
| 10.12.1954 | Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium |
| 10.12.1956 | Establishment of MPLA in Angola |
| 10.12.1958 | 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 |
| 10.12.1958 | University of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates |
| 10.12.1961 | Dr. Ruth marries Fred Westheimer |
| 10.12.1961 | Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans |
| 10.12.1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground) |
| 10.12.1961 | U.S.S.R. and Albania break diplomatic relations |
| 10.12.1962 | Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years |
| 10.12.1963 | 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show |
| 10.12.1963 | Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth |
| 10.12.1964 | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr |
| 10.12.1965 | Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia |
| 10.12.1965 | Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters vs. England at the Gabba |
| 10.12.1965 | """Yearling"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 3 performances" |
| 10.12.1966 | Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| 10.12.1966 | Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken |
| 10.12.1968 | Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 10.12.1970 | North American Soccer League awards New York and Toronto franchises |
| 10.12.1971 | West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace |
| 10.12.1971 | William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice |
| 10.12.1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 10.12.1973 | "1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith and J Connors)" |
| 10.12.1974 | European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament |
| 10.12.1974 | "Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun" |
| 10.12.1974 | Space probe Helios 1 launched |
| 10.12.1975 | "Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize" |
| 10.12.1975 | "Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ" |
| 10.12.1976 | "Wings release triple album ""Wings Over America""" |
| 10.12.1977 | Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station |
| 10.12.1978 | 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1) |
| 10.12.1978 | "In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize" |
| 10.12.1978 | Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians |
| 10.12.1978 | """Platinum"" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 33 performances" |
| 10.12.1979 | Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament |
| 10.12.1980 | Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth |
| 10.12.1980 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 10.12.1981 | El Salvador army kills 900 |
| 10.12.1981 | "Jules Feiffer's ""Grownups,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 10.12.1982 | Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas |
| 10.12.1982 | "Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off" |
| 10.12.1983 | 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76) |
| 10.12.1983 | "Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize" |
| 10.12.1983 | Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat New York Jets 34-7 |
| 10.12.1983 | Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president |
| 10.12.1984 | 1st planet outside our solar system discovered |
| 10.12.1984 | South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize |
| 10.12.1984 | WNSY-AM in Newport News Virginia returns from WGH |
| 10.12.1985 | Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress |
| 10.12.1985 | Junta leaders Videla and Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires |
| 10.12.1986 | Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls |
| 10.12.1986 | France performs nuclear test |
| 10.12.1986 | Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 10.12.1987 | """Nightline"" is seen in U.S.S.R. for 1st time" |
| 10.12.1988 | "Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens" |
| 10.12.1989 | "President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns" |
| 10.12.1990 | "Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die" |
| 10.12.1990 | Soyuz TM-10 lands |
| 10.12.1990 | Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands |
| 10.12.1991 | """Crucible"" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 32 performances" |
| 10.12.1991 | Howard Spira sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner |
| 10.12.1991 | IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 10.12.1991 | Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day |
| 10.12.1992 | """My Favorite Year"" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 37 performances" |
| 10.12.1992 | New York Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key |
| 10.12.1992 | NHL awards franchises to Mimai and Anaheim (for 1994-95) |
| 10.12.1992 | Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record) |
| 10.12.1993 | Dow Jones hits record 3740.67 |
| 10.12.1994 | "60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)" |
| 10.12.1994 | "European Campaign against Racism ""All different, All equal"" begins" |
| 10.12.1994 | "Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat" |
| 10.12.1995 | "1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81" |
| 10.12.1995 | Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
| 10.12.1995 | Michael Slater scores 219 vs. Sri Lanka at the WACA |
| 10.12.1995 | Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617 |
| 10.12.1995 | "Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust vs. Sri Lanka, WACA)" |
| 10.12.1995 | "Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9"" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3"" in 1982" |
| 11.12.384 | St. Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 11.12.1419 | Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence |
| 11.12.1477 | Duchess Maria van Bourgondie ends Great Privilegie |
| 11.12.1572 | Spanish troops begin siege of Haarlem |
| 11.12.1618 | Russia and Poland signs Peace treaty of Dailino |
| 11.12.1620 | 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock |
| 11.12.1665 | """Messiah"" Sjabtai Tswi festival in Smyrna" |
| 11.12.1688 | King James II arrested |
| 11.12.1710 | Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers) |
| 11.12.1718 | Battle at Frederikshall Norway |
| 11.12.1719 | 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in U.S. (New England) |
| 11.12.1730 | "Voltaire's ""Brutus,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 11.12.1792 | "France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason" |
| 11.12.1812 | 1st newspaper on Curaeao (Curaeao Gazette and Commercial Advertiser) |
| 11.12.1816 | Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders |
| 11.12.1816 | Indiana becomes 19th state |
| 11.12.1844 | "1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct" |
| 11.12.1866 | 1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean |
| 11.12.1872 | "1st black U.S. Governor took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)" |
| 11.12.1882 | "Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's ""Iolanthe""" |
| 11.12.1882 | "Victorien Sardous ""Fedora,"" with Sarah Bernhardt, premieres in Paris" |
| 11.12.1888 | French Panama Canal company fails |
| 11.12.1893 | "11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed" |
| 11.12.1899 | Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs Gen Methuen |
| 11.12.1901 | "Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld" |
| 11.12.1903 | British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet |
| 11.12.1905 | "120 degrees F (49 degrees C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)" |
| 11.12.1905 | British government of Campbell-Bannerman forms |
| 11.12.1906 | US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo |
| 11.12.1908 | "Frederick Delius' ""In a Summer Garden,"" premieres" |
| 11.12.1909 | "Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000" |
| 11.12.1909 | "Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City" |
| 11.12.1914 | Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed |
| 11.12.1916 | David Lloyd George forms British war government |
| 11.12.1917 | 13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot |
| 11.12.1917 | German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia |
| 11.12.1919 | "Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala" |
| 11.12.1925 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quas Primas |
| 11.12.1926 | Josephine Baker goes up in Amsterdam |
| 11.12.1926 | "Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW" |
| 11.12.1928 | Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover |
| 11.12.1928 | NL President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers |
| 11.12.1930 | Bank of the United States opens in New York City |
| 11.12.1931 | "Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd" |
| 11.12.1931 | Japan leaves the Golden Standard |
| 11.12.1932 | SF's coldest day (27 degrees F) - it snows |
| 11.12.1934 | 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland |
| 11.12.1934 | "1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers" |
| 11.12.1934 | Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 11.12.1934 | NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team) |
| 11.12.1936 | King Edward VIII marries Mrs. Wallis Simpson; abdicates throne Duke of York becomes King George VI |
| 11.12.1937 | "25th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7" |
| 11.12.1937 | Italy withdraws from League of Nations |
| 11.12.1938 | New York Giants win NFL championship |
| 11.12.1939 | "New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed" |
| 11.12.1940 | Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault |
| 11.12.1941 | Dutch government in London declares war on Italy |
| 11.12.1941 | Germany and Italy declare war on US |
| 11.12.1941 | "Giants acquire Johnny Mize from Cards for 3 players and $50,000" |
| 11.12.1941 | Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing) |
| 11.12.1941 | Japanese occupy Guam |
| 11.12.1942 | Australian/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated to Timor near Australia |
| 11.12.1944 | "Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed" |
| 11.12.1945 | Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip |
| 11.12.1946 | Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label |
| 11.12.1946 | Spain suspended from UN |
| 11.12.1946 | U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965) |
| 11.12.1947 | """Angel in the Wings"" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 308 performances" |
| 11.12.1947 | "Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman's musical ""Angel in Wings,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 11.12.1947 | Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected |
| 11.12.1948 | "WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.12.1948 | "WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.12.1949 | Chicago Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29) |
| 11.12.1949 | Cleveland Browns beat San Francisco '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game |
| 11.12.1949 | "WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, Texas (NBC) 1st broadcast" |
| 11.12.1950 | Baseball owners vote 9-7 not to renew Commissioner Chandler's contract |
| 11.12.1950 | "Hindemiths Concerto for clarinet, premieres" |
| 11.12.1951 | Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement |
| 11.12.1953 | KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station |
| 11.12.1954 | Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium |
| 11.12.1954 | "USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va" |
| 11.12.1956 | Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin and Wroclaw Poland |
| 11.12.1957 | Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra |
| 11.12.1958 | 4th (last) Dutch government of Drees falls |
| 11.12.1958 | "Archibald MacLeish's ""JB,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 11.12.1958 | Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France |
| 11.12.1959 | "Yanks trade Marv Thronberry, Don Larsen, Hank Bauer and Norm Seibern for Roger Maris, Kent Hadley and Joe Deaestri" |
| 11.12.1960 | "Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die" |
| 11.12.1960 | Cleveland's Bernie Parrish sets club record for longest interception return with a 92 yard run |
| 11.12.1960 | "Coleman/Leigh's musical ""Wildcat"" with Lucille Ball premieres in New York City" |
| 11.12.1961 | "Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel" |
| 11.12.1961 | "Elvis Presley's ""Blue Hawaii,"" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 weeks" |
| 11.12.1961 | John F. Kennedy provides U.S. miltary helicopters and crews to South Vietnam |
| 11.12.1961 | """Please, Mr. Postman"" by Marvelettes, released" |
| 11.12.1965 | """Anya"" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 16 performances" |
| 11.12.1965 | """Yearling"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 3 performances" |
| 11.12.1966 | "Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards" |
| 11.12.1967 | "6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed" |
| 11.12.1967 | Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit |
| 11.12.1967 | People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established |
| 11.12.1967 | "SST prototype ""Concorde"" 1st shown (France)" |
| 11.12.1968 | "KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, California (CBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 11.12.1968 | US Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband |
| 11.12.1969 | Libya adopts constitution |
| 11.12.1970 | "Start of the 1st Test match at the WACA, vs. England" |
| 11.12.1970 | Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell |
| 11.12.1972 | Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on Moon |
| 11.12.1972 | Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) |
| 11.12.1973 | Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman |
| 11.12.1973 | "NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle and Vancouver franchises" |
| 11.12.1973 | Ron Santo becomes 1st to invoke no-trade clause of 10-year-1-club vet |
| 11.12.1973 | West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech |
| 11.12.1975 | 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents |
| 11.12.1975 | "Great Yankee trade getting Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis and Ken Brett from Pirates for George ""Doc"" Medich" |
| 11.12.1977 | Billboard Awards |
| 11.12.1978 | 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at New York Kennedy Airport and made off with $5.8 M in cash and jewelry |
| 11.12.1979 | Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international |
| 11.12.1979 | Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) |
| 11.12.1980 | "Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW vs. Victoria" |
| 11.12.1981 | Argentine president/gen Roberto Viola flees |
| 11.12.1981 | "Muhammad Ali's 61st and last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick" |
| 11.12.1981 | Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN |
| 11.12.1981 | Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center |
| 11.12.1981 | U.N. Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl |
| 11.12.1981 | Washington Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2 |
| 11.12.1983 | 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) |
| 11.12.1983 | 72nd Australian Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (61 64 64) |
| 11.12.1983 | Jan Stephens/Fred Couples wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 11.12.1984 | """Doug Henning and His World..."" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 60 perf" |
| 11.12.1984 | Mauretania military coup under Col Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya |
| 11.12.1985 | Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb |
| 11.12.1985 | "Dow Jones closes above 1,500 for 1st time (1,511.70)" |
| 11.12.1985 | "General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC" |
| 11.12.1985 | "NHL Record 62 points scored, Edmonton (36) beats Chicago (26) 12-9 and ties record of 21 goals" |
| 11.12.1986 | A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 11.12.1986 | South Africa censors press |
| 11.12.1987 | "Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI vs. India at Bombay" |
| 11.12.1989 | """City of Angels"" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 878 performances" |
| 11.12.1989 | Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year Kansas City Royals contract |
| 11.12.1990 | "13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tennessee I-75, due to fog" |
| 11.12.1990 | U.S. 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space |
| 11.12.1991 | William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape |
| 11.12.1992 | "Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing 1 billion dollars worth of damage" |
| 11.12.1992 | WNEW AM radio on 1130 in New York City ends transmitting after 58 years |
| 11.12.1993 | "59th Heisman Trophy Award: Charlie Ward, Florida State (QB)" |
| 11.12.1993 | Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
| 11.12.1994 | Kelly Robbins and Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
| 11.12.1994 | Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenia |
| 11.12.1995 | Thomas O Hicks buys NHL Dallas Stars for $84 million |
| 11.12.1997 | Fed judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows |
| 11.12.1997 | """Sunshine Boys,"" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City" |
| 12.12.627 | Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen |
| 12.12.1098 | 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara Syria |
| 12.12.1474 | Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilie and Aragon |
| 12.12.1479 | Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III |
| 12.12.1524 | Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome |
| 12.12.1527 | Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice |
| 12.12.1653 | Barebone-parliament ends |
| 12.12.1677 | Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin |
| 12.12.1700 | Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar |
| 12.12.1715 | Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund |
| 12.12.1769 | Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee |
| 12.12.1787 | Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify U.S. constitution |
| 12.12.1791 | Bank of U.S. opens |
| 12.12.1792 | "In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn" |
| 12.12.1800 | Washington D.C. established as capital of US |
| 12.12.1822 | Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US |
| 12.12.1858 | "1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and 20 cent)" |
| 12.12.1862 | "Battle of Dumfries, VA" |
| 12.12.1862 | "Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)" |
| 12.12.1870 | Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps |
| 12.12.1871 | Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum |
| 12.12.1878 | "Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing ""St. Louis Dispatch""" |
| 12.12.1884 | 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval |
| 12.12.1897 | Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania |
| 12.12.1897 | Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in New York Journal |
| 12.12.1898 | 1st 1st-class game between NSW and Tasmania |
| 12.12.1899 | "1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii" |
| 12.12.1899 | George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee |
| 12.12.1900 | "National Negro Anthem, ""Lift Every Voice and Sing,"" composed" |
| 12.12.1901 | "Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US" |
| 12.12.1903 | Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo |
| 12.12.1904 | "CMS McClellans ""Leah Kleschna,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.12.1906 | "Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Sec of Commerce" |
| 12.12.1912 | "R Friml/O Harbachs musical ""Firefly,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.12.1913 | Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools |
| 12.12.1913 | """Mona Lisa,"" stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered" |
| 12.12.1915 | 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany |
| 12.12.1915 | Aristide Briand forms French war government |
| 12.12.1915 | "Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia" |
| 12.12.1916 | Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed) |
| 12.12.1917 | French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 |
| 12.12.1917 | "Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb" |
| 12.12.1920 | "Maurice Ravels ballet ""La Valse,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 12.12.1925 | "Arthur Heinman coins term ""motel,"" opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo" |
| 12.12.1925 | Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia |
| 12.12.1925 | Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over |
| 12.12.1926 | Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert |
| 12.12.1928 | "Nichols/Brownes ""Wings over Europe,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.12.1930 | "Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a HR, now a double" |
| 12.12.1930 | Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book |
| 12.12.1930 | Start of the 1st Australia vs. West Indies Test (at Adelaide) |
| 12.12.1931 | Japanese Government of Imukai forms |
| 12.12.1932 | "S N Behrmans ""Biography,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.12.1932 | U.S.S.R. and China resume diplomatic relations |
| 12.12.1936 | Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan |
| 12.12.1937 | Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations) |
| 12.12.1937 | NBC and RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY |
| 12.12.1937 | Washington Redskins win NFL championship |
| 12.12.1939 | Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die |
| 12.12.1940 | British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani |
| 12.12.1941 | European reservists on Java mobilizes |
| 12.12.1941 | German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews |
| 12.12.1941 | Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk |
| 12.12.1942 | German offensive in South Western Stalingrad |
| 12.12.1945 | Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death |
| 12.12.1946 | "Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38" |
| 12.12.1946 | Tide detergent introduced |
| 12.12.1946 | U.N. accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr |
| 12.12.1947 | United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL |
| 12.12.1949 | AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball |
| 12.12.1950 | "16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB)" |
| 12.12.1950 | Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus and high school rule |
| 12.12.1951 | Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement |
| 12.12.1952 | "Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team" |
| 12.12.1953 | Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane |
| 12.12.1955 | 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British eng Christoper Cockerell |
| 12.12.1957 | "Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham" |
| 12.12.1957 | "Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo" |
| 12.12.1957 | US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond) |
| 12.12.1958 | Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed |
| 12.12.1958 | Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs. West Indies at Kanpur |
| 12.12.1959 | U.N. Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established |
| 12.12.1961 | Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36 |
| 12.12.1961 | "Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga" |
| 12.12.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 12.12.1963 | Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron |
| 12.12.1963 | "Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped" |
| 12.12.1963 | Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK |
| 12.12.1964 | Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes |
| 12.12.1964 | "Shooting starts for ""Star Trek"" pilot ""The Cage"" (Menagerie)" |
| 12.12.1965 | Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales) |
| 12.12.1965 | "Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155" |
| 12.12.1965 | "Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record" |
| 12.12.1965 | Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St. and Amsterdam Ave New York City |
| 12.12.1966 | U.S. Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta |
| 12.12.1967 | U.S. launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit |
| 12.12.1968 | Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis |
| 12.12.1968 | "Rolling Stones film TV show ""Rock 'n Roll Circus""-never aired" |
| 12.12.1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 12.12.1969 | Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points) |
| 12.12.1969 | "Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed" |
| 12.12.1969 | """Hello Dolly"" with Barbra Striesand premieres" |
| 12.12.1970 | Polish government proclaims price rise |
| 12.12.1970 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays |
| 12.12.1970 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 12.12.1973 | Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 and $10 silver coins) |
| 12.12.1973 | San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC) |
| 12.12.1975 | Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) |
| 12.12.1975 | Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford |
| 12.12.1976 | QB Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet |
| 12.12.1977 | Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves |
| 12.12.1979 | Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce |
| 12.12.1979 | Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe |
| 12.12.1980 | US's copyright law amended to include computer programs |
| 12.12.1981 | """1st"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 37 performances" |
| 12.12.1981 | Gambia and Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982 |
| 12.12.1981 | Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39) |
| 12.12.1982 | 57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63) |
| 12.12.1982 | "$9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in New York City" |
| 12.12.1982 | """Herman Van Veen: All of Him"" closes at Ambassador New York City after 6 perf" |
| 12.12.1982 | Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 12.12.1983 | A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait |
| 12.12.1985 | 248 U.S. soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash |
| 12.12.1985 | "DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die" |
| 12.12.1985 | NASA launches space vehicle S-207 |
| 12.12.1986 | "David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 vs. England at Adelaide" |
| 12.12.1986 | "James ""Bone Crusher"" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG" |
| 12.12.1986 | "Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed" |
| 12.12.1986 | South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
| 12.12.1987 | Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game |
| 12.12.1987 | Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary |
| 12.12.1987 | "Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers" |
| 12.12.1988 | "3 trains collide in London, 40 die" |
| 12.12.1988 | New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line) |
| 12.12.1988 | PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist |
| 12.12.1988 | Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
| 12.12.1990 | US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks |
| 12.12.1990 | "US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait" |
| 12.12.1991 | Actor Richard Gere marries supermodel Cindy Crawford |
| 12.12.1991 | Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community |
| 12.12.1991 | New Jersey Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81 |
| 12.12.1991 | Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection |
| 12.12.1991 | "Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test" |
| 12.12.1992 | "58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami, Florida (QB)" |
| 12.12.1992 | "6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)" |
| 12.12.1992 | Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada |
| 12.12.1992 | "Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World" |
| 12.12.1992 | New York Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals |
| 12.12.1993 | """Any Given Day"" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 32 performances" |
| 12.12.1993 | """Kentucky Cycle"" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 34 performances" |
| 12.12.1993 | WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in New York City |
| 12.12.1995 | Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote) |
| 12.12.1995 | CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31 |
| 12.12.1995 | Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress |
| 12.12.1995 | NBA referees return to work after striking |
| 12.12.1996 | Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain) |
| 12.12.1996 | "Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou" |
| 12.12.1997 | "Carlos the Jackal, ""professional revolutionary"" goes on trial in Paris" |
| 12.12.1997 | "Fed judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him" |
| 12.12.1997 | "Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin" |
| 12.12.1997 | Japanese Maglev train builders claim world speed record at 332 MPH |
| 12.12.1997 | Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract |
| 12.12.1997 | "SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages" |
| 12.12.1997 | TWA 800 hearings end |
| 13.12.863 | Boudouin with the Iron Arm weds Charles de Kales' daughter Judith |
| 13.12.1294 | Pope Coelestinus V ends term |
| 13.12.1545 | Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens |
| 13.12.1545 | Pope Paul III opens council of Trente |
| 13.12.1570 | Sweden/Denmark signs Peace of Stettin |
| 13.12.1572 | Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under Admiral Lumey |
| 13.12.1577 | Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world |
| 13.12.1621 | Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree |
| 13.12.1642 | New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman |
| 13.12.1668 | "Jean Racines ""Britannicus,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 13.12.1734 | England and Russia sign trade agreement |
| 13.12.1742 | Willem KH Friso tests his mothers potatoes |
| 13.12.1759 | 1st music store in America opens (Phila) |
| 13.12.1769 | Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter |
| 13.12.1774 | "1st incident of Revolution-400 attack Ft. William and Mary, NH" |
| 13.12.1816 | "Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston" |
| 13.12.1823 | Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London |
| 13.12.1833 | "HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonie" |
| 13.12.1843 | """A Christmas Carol"" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold" |
| 13.12.1861 | "Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV" |
| 13.12.1862 | "Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights)" |
| 13.12.1864 | "Battle of Ft. McAllister, GA" |
| 13.12.1879 | 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware) |
| 13.12.1889 | Belgium rules on women/child labor law |
| 13.12.1895 | 1st complete execution of Gustav Mahlers 2nd Symphony |
| 13.12.1900 | Battle at Nooitgedacht: generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten |
| 13.12.1901 | "Test debut of S F Barnes vs. Aust SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings" |
| 13.12.1903 | Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ) |
| 13.12.1903 | Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk |
| 13.12.1906 | German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament |
| 13.12.1907 | George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut vs. Australia SCG |
| 13.12.1907 | German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam |
| 13.12.1913 | Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre |
| 13.12.1916 | "Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol" |
| 13.12.1916 | Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin |
| 13.12.1916 | French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle |
| 13.12.1918 | "U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany" |
| 13.12.1918 | "Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)" |
| 13.12.1919 | Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London |
| 13.12.1920 | F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse) |
| 13.12.1920 | League of nations establishes International Court of Justice in The Hague |
| 13.12.1920 | "Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slavia" |
| 13.12.1922 | Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps |
| 13.12.1924 | KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions |
| 13.12.1928 | Clip-on tie designed |
| 13.12.1928 | "George Gershwin's ""An American In Paris"" premieres (New York City)" |
| 13.12.1930 | George Sisler's career ends when Boston Braves release him |
| 13.12.1930 | Theodore Steeg forms French government |
| 13.12.1934 | Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St. New York City |
| 13.12.1936 | "Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Washington D.C." |
| 13.12.1936 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| 13.12.1938 | Los Angeles freezes at 28 degrees F |
| 13.12.1939 | Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee |
| 13.12.1941 | German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union |
| 13.12.1941 | "Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die" |
| 13.12.1941 | U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier Ark Royal |
| 13.12.1942 | Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader |
| 13.12.1942 | "Washington Redskins defeat Chicago Bears 14-6, to win NFL title" |
| 13.12.1943 | 150 U.S. Marauders bomb Schiphol |
| 13.12.1944 | "Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138" |
| 13.12.1944 | "Norman Krasna's ""Dear Ruth,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.12.1946 | Leon Blum elected French premier |
| 13.12.1947 | """Caribbean Carnival"" closes at International New York City after 11 performances" |
| 13.12.1947 | Maine Turnpike opens to traffic |
| 13.12.1949 | AL votes down proposal to revive spitball |
| 13.12.1949 | Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem |
| 13.12.1950 | James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial |
| 13.12.1950 | """Let's Make an Opera"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 5 performances" |
| 13.12.1951 | Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher |
| 13.12.1953 | "KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.12.1956 | "Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 Robinson retires" |
| 13.12.1959 | Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus |
| 13.12.1960 | Italy beats U.S. in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years U.S. not in finals) |
| 13.12.1960 | Laos General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane |
| 13.12.1961 | Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein |
| 13.12.1961 | Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann |
| 13.12.1961 | Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller |
| 13.12.1962 | Relay 1 communication satellite launched |
| 13.12.1963 | Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles |
| 13.12.1964 | "In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border" |
| 13.12.1964 | Shirley Englehorn and Sam Snead wins Haig and Haig Mixed Foursome Golf |
| 13.12.1965 | Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow |
| 13.12.1966 | 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam |
| 13.12.1966 | 1st U.S. bombing of Hanoi |
| 13.12.1966 | "Test debut of Clive Lloyd, vs. India Bombay, 82 and 78" |
| 13.12.1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 13.12.1967 | United Soccer Association and National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL |
| 13.12.1967 | Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II |
| 13.12.1968 | Playland at Beach reopens |
| 13.12.1968 | President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power |
| 13.12.1969 | "Arlo Guthrie releases ""Alice's Restaurant""" |
| 13.12.1969 | Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager |
| 13.12.1970 | Greg Chappell scores 108 on Test debut vs. England at the WACA |
| 13.12.1970 | "Neil Simon's ""Gingerbread Lady,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.12.1971 | "John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed" |
| 13.12.1973 | MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya |
| 13.12.1973 | World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit) |
| 13.12.1974 | "Jim ""Catfish"" Hunter wins free agent claim against A's owner Finley" |
| 13.12.1974 | Malta becomes a republic |
| 13.12.1975 | 1st time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay - Richard Pryor as host |
| 13.12.1975 | Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election |
| 13.12.1975 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| 13.12.1975 | "Roy Fredericks hits 169 vs. Aust at WACA, hundred in 71 balls" |
| 13.12.1975 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 13.12.1976 | Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur |
| 13.12.1976 | Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m) |
| 13.12.1977 | 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash |
| 13.12.1978 | "Susan B. Anthony dollar, 1st U.S. coin to honor a woman, issued" |
| 13.12.1979 | """Oklahoma!"" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 301 performances" |
| 13.12.1979 | Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland |
| 13.12.1980 | """Perfectly Frank"" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 16 performances" |
| 13.12.1981 | 70th Davis Cup: USA beats Argentina in Cincinnati (3-1) |
| 13.12.1981 | "Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists" |
| 13.12.1982 | 71st Australian Mens Tennis: Johan Kriek beats Steve Denton (63 63 62) |
| 13.12.1982 | "Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die" |
| 13.12.1983 | "9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)" |
| 13.12.1983 | British Airways incorporates |
| 13.12.1983 | Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers |
| 13.12.1983 | "KYA-AM in San Francisco, California changes call letters to KOIT" |
| 13.12.1983 | Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor |
| 13.12.1984 | Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke |
| 13.12.1985 | "David Boon's 1st Test century, 123 vs. India at Adelaide" |
| 13.12.1985 | "Test debut of Merv Hughes, Geoff Marsh and Bruce Reid (v India)" |
| 13.12.1987 | Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election |
| 13.12.1987 | "Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28" |
| 13.12.1987 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 13.12.1988 | 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in New York City |
| 13.12.1988 | Arafat addresses United Nations in Geneva |
| 13.12.1989 | Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games |
| 13.12.1990 | "Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die" |
| 13.12.1990 | """Peter Pan"" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 45 performances" |
| 13.12.1990 | President De Klerk of South Africa meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid |
| 13.12.1991 | Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation |
| 13.12.1991 | NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud |
| 13.12.1991 | Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games |
| 13.12.1992 | Dawn Coe-Jone wins Pizza-La LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
| 13.12.1992 | "FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000" |
| 13.12.1992 | """Show Off"" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances" |
| 13.12.1993 | "Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't" |
| 13.12.1993 | Dow Jones hits record 3764.43 |
| 13.12.1993 | "Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed" |
| 13.12.1993 | "Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands" |
| 13.12.1994 | "American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15" |
| 13.12.1995 | Christopher Reeves released from physical rehab center |
| 13.12.1995 | US Federal Court votes that Cable companies must carry local stations |
| 13.12.1996 | Free agent Roger Clemens signs with Toronto Blue Jays |
| 13.12.1997 | "63rd Heisman Trophy Award: Charles Woodson, Michigan (CB)" |
| 14.12.644 | Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam |
| 14.12.867 | Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 14.12.872 | John VIII elected as Catholic Pope |
| 14.12.1124 | Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses) |
| 14.12.1287 | "Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives" |
| 14.12.1490 | Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria |
| 14.12.1575 | Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland |
| 14.12.1582 | "Zealand/Brabant Netherlands adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25" |
| 14.12.1600 | "Olivier van Noort sinks Sp galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die" |
| 14.12.1656 | Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales |
| 14.12.1708 | "Prosper Jolyot's ""Electre,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 14.12.1774 | Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft. William and Mary |
| 14.12.1782 | "Charleston, South Carolina evacuated by British" |
| 14.12.1793 | "1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Kentucky to Cincinnati" |
| 14.12.1798 | David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut and bolt machine |
| 14.12.1819 | Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state |
| 14.12.1825 | Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins |
| 14.12.1849 | 1st chamber music group in U.S. gives their 1st concert (Boston) |
| 14.12.1863 | Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn |
| 14.12.1882 | Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo |
| 14.12.1889 | "American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Phila" |
| 14.12.1894 | "Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus vs. Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)" |
| 14.12.1894 | "Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren" |
| 14.12.1901 | 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium) |
| 14.12.1903 | Reg Foster completes 287 England vs. Australia on Test Cricket debut |
| 14.12.1911 | "South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen" |
| 14.12.1913 | Greece formally takes possession of Crete |
| 14.12.1915 | Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion |
| 14.12.1917 | "UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany" |
| 14.12.1918 | "Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Il Trittico,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 14.12.1920 | Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in New York City |
| 14.12.1920 | Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 14.12.1923 | "Gerard K ""Simon"" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)" |
| 14.12.1924 | Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou |
| 14.12.1924 | "Respighi's symphony ""Pini di Roma,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 14.12.1926 | "Danish Madsen government, forms" |
| 14.12.1927 | "Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain" |
| 14.12.1928 | 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs. England starts with Bradman 12th man |
| 14.12.1929 | Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece |
| 14.12.1930 | New York Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game |
| 14.12.1931 | 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht |
| 14.12.1932 | French government of Herriot falls |
| 14.12.1933 | Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam |
| 14.12.1934 | 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany New York) |
| 14.12.1935 | "Test Cricket debut of ""Chuck"" Fleetwood-Smith vs. South Africa, Durban" |
| 14.12.1937 | Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing |
| 14.12.1938 | AL permits Cleveland and Philadelphia to play night games |
| 14.12.1938 | Major leagues agrees on standard ball |
| 14.12.1938 | Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25 |
| 14.12.1938 | Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president |
| 14.12.1939 | Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union |
| 14.12.1941 | "1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14" |
| 14.12.1941 | Premier Winston Churchill travels to U.S. on board HMS Duke of York |
| 14.12.1941 | U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea |
| 14.12.1944 | Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany |
| 14.12.1944 | Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General) |
| 14.12.1944 | German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland |
| 14.12.1945 | "Elmer Rice' ""Dream Girl,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 14.12.1946 | """Three to Make Ready"" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 323 performances" |
| 14.12.1946 | Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN |
| 14.12.1946 | U.N. General Assembly votes to establish United Nations HQs in New York City |
| 14.12.1947 | Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game |
| 14.12.1950 | "Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), and Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner" |
| 14.12.1950 | """Bless You All"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 84 performances" |
| 14.12.1950 | U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954) |
| 14.12.1952 | "KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.12.1952 | "R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut vs. Pakistan, Calcutta" |
| 14.12.1952 | "Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die" |
| 14.12.1953 | Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax |
| 14.12.1954 | "WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.12.1955 | Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar |
| 14.12.1955 | Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic |
| 14.12.1956 | Paul-Henri Spaak appointed Secretary-General of NATO |
| 14.12.1957 | """Most Happy Fella"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 678 performances" |
| 14.12.1957 | """Rumple"" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 45 performances" |
| 14.12.1959 | Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus |
| 14.12.1959 | "J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m" |
| 14.12.1960 | Australia vs. West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie |
| 14.12.1960 | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms |
| 14.12.1960 | Washington Senators joins American League |
| 14.12.1961 | "Jimmy Dean's ""Big Bad John"" is 1st country song to get a gold record" |
| 14.12.1962 | Mariner 2 makes 1st U.S. fly-by of another planet (Venus) |
| 14.12.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.12.1963 | "Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ" |
| 14.12.1964 | "Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes ""Walk Away Rene""" |
| 14.12.1965 | """La Grusse Valise"" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 7 performances" |
| 14.12.1967 | DNA created in a test tube |
| 14.12.1969 | Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) vs. Australia at Calcutta |
| 14.12.1969 | "Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on ""Ed Sullivan Show""" |
| 14.12.1969 | """La Strada"" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 1 performance" |
| 14.12.1971 | Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure |
| 14.12.1971 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.12.1972 | Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon |
| 14.12.1972 | Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor |
| 14.12.1974 | Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0 |
| 14.12.1974 | Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs. India 20 fours 6 sixes |
| 14.12.1975 | "6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days" |
| 14.12.1975 | """Treemonisha"" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 64 performances" |
| 14.12.1976 | Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws |
| 14.12.1977 | Egypt and Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference |
| 14.12.1977 | Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni and cash |
| 14.12.1977 | """Saturday Night Fever,""starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City" |
| 14.12.1977 | "Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, vs. England at Lahore" |
| 14.12.1977 | War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years |
| 14.12.1978 | """Ballroom"" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 116 performances" |
| 14.12.1978 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 14.12.1978 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 14.12.1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.12.1980 | Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot |
| 14.12.1980 | At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon |
| 14.12.1980 | "Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24" |
| 14.12.1980 | Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 14.12.1980 | "New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat New York Jets 21-20" |
| 14.12.1980 | """Onward Victoria"" opens/closes at Martin Beck New York City for 1 performance" |
| 14.12.1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 14.12.1981 | Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967) |
| 14.12.1982 | "Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals" |
| 14.12.1983 | """Peg"" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 5 performances" |
| 14.12.1984 | Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football |
| 14.12.1985 | US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin |
| 14.12.1986 | "Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world" |
| 14.12.1987 | Allan Border scores 205 vs. NZ to become Australia's top rungetter |
| 14.12.1987 | Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new |
| 14.12.1988 | CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights |
| 14.12.1988 | "NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses" |
| 14.12.1988 | Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures |
| 14.12.1988 | U.S. agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs) |
| 14.12.1990 | "Louis Jordan's revue ""Five Guys Named Moe,"" premieres in London" |
| 14.12.1990 | "Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later" |
| 14.12.1991 | "57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)" |
| 14.12.1991 | "Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed" |
| 14.12.1992 | "Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him" |
| 14.12.1993 | Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria |
| 14.12.1995 | AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant |
| 14.12.1995 | """Les Miserables"" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki" |
| 14.12.1996 | 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| 14.12.1996 | "62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)" |
| 14.12.1997 | Diners Club Senior Golf Match |
| 14.12.1997 | Juli Inkster and Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches |
| 14.12.1997 | Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals |
| 14.12.1997 | """View From the Bridge,"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City" |
| 15.12.687 | St. Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon |
| 15.12.1124 | Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II) |
| 15.12.1488 | Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope |
| 15.12.1569 | Westmoreland flees to Scotland |
| 15.12.1582 | Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine |
| 15.12.1582 | Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar |
| 15.12.1586 | "Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp" |
| 15.12.1593 | State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft |
| 15.12.1612 | "Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope" |
| 15.12.1640 | Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal |
| 15.12.1660 | Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan |
| 15.12.1664 | English colonizing Connecticut |
| 15.12.1667 | Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War |
| 15.12.1680 | Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal |
| 15.12.1688 | Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25] |
| 15.12.1745 | Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen and Austria |
| 15.12.1791 | 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania |
| 15.12.1791 | Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval |
| 15.12.1792 | 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. (Phila) |
| 15.12.1794 | Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France |
| 15.12.1810 | "1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published" |
| 15.12.1811 | "Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri" |
| 15.12.1815 | Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| 15.12.1820 | "1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston" |
| 15.12.1836 | "Patent Office burns in Wash, DC" |
| 15.12.1854 | 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia |
| 15.12.1859 | GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun |
| 15.12.1863 | "Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)" |
| 15.12.1864 | "Battle of Nashville, TN" |
| 15.12.1864 | "Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA" |
| 15.12.1874 | 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant |
| 15.12.1877 | Thomas Edison patents phonograph |
| 15.12.1891 | James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) |
| 15.12.1893 | "Dvoraks ""From the New World"" premieres at Carnegie Hall New York City" |
| 15.12.1894 | Cricket day 2 1st T Aus vs. Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130 |
| 15.12.1899 | "Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)" |
| 15.12.1909 | Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 15.12.1914 | Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow |
| 15.12.1914 | British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea |
| 15.12.1914 | Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary |
| 15.12.1916 | French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun |
| 15.12.1917 | Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia |
| 15.12.1918 | American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting |
| 15.12.1919 | "Edna St. Vincent Millay's ""Aria da Capo,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 15.12.1919 | Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence |
| 15.12.1922 | IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague |
| 15.12.1925 | "1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1" |
| 15.12.1925 | 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic |
| 15.12.1926 | Facist national symbol elevated in Italy |
| 15.12.1927 | Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads |
| 15.12.1929 | Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro |
| 15.12.1930 | "Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)" |
| 15.12.1933 | Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15 |
| 15.12.1934 | Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies |
| 15.12.1935 | Detroit Lions win NFL championship |
| 15.12.1935 | Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin |
| 15.12.1936 | KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) |
| 15.12.1938 | Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. |
| 15.12.1939 | "1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware" |
| 15.12.1939 | """Gone With the Wind"" premieres in Atlanta" |
| 15.12.1939 | Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao |
| 15.12.1941 | Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland |
| 15.12.1941 | German submarine U-127 sinks |
| 15.12.1941 | Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint |
| 15.12.1941 | North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
| 15.12.1941 | USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship |
| 15.12.1942 | Massachusetts issues 1st U.S. vehicular license plate tabs |
| 15.12.1944 | US troops lands on Mindoro |
| 15.12.1944 | "Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel" |
| 15.12.1944 | Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms |
| 15.12.1944 | U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star |
| 15.12.1945 | "John J ""Cardinal"" O'Connor, ordained as a priest" |
| 15.12.1946 | Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game |
| 15.12.1946 | "Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt" |
| 15.12.1948 | Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury |
| 15.12.1949 | "Albert Camus' ""Les Justes"" premieres in Paris" |
| 15.12.1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title |
| 15.12.1950 | New York City's Port Authority opens |
| 15.12.1952 | Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation |
| 15.12.1952 | "KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.12.1952 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias |
| 15.12.1952 | """Two's Company"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances" |
| 15.12.1953 | "WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.12.1954 | Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons |
| 15.12.1954 | Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands |
| 15.12.1956 | Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes |
| 15.12.1956 | "KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.12.1956 | "WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.12.1959 | "Everly Brothers record ""Let It Be Me""" |
| 15.12.1960 | King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon |
| 15.12.1961 | Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel |
| 15.12.1961 | "Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time" |
| 15.12.1961 | John F. Kennedy visits Puerto Rico |
| 15.12.1961 | L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels |
| 15.12.1962 | "Vaughn Meader's ""1st Family,"" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 weeks" |
| 15.12.1964 | 1st time 4 people in space |
| 15.12.1964 | American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded |
| 15.12.1964 | Canada adopts maple leaf flag |
| 15.12.1965 | "3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River" |
| 15.12.1965 | "Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000" |
| 15.12.1965 | "D Heneker and J Taylor's musical ""Charlie Girl,"" premieres in London" |
| 15.12.1965 | Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) |
| 15.12.1965 | Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde |
| 15.12.1965 | William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball |
| 15.12.1966 | "Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus" |
| 15.12.1966 | "John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints" |
| 15.12.1966 | """Joyful Noise"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 12 performances" |
| 15.12.1967 | "Beatles release ""Christmas Time is Here Again""" |
| 15.12.1967 | Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel |
| 15.12.1967 | "Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die" |
| 15.12.1969 | "Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom" |
| 15.12.1969 | San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones |
| 15.12.1970 | Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 |
| 15.12.1970 | "S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed" |
| 15.12.1970 | Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) |
| 15.12.1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 15.12.1973 | American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness |
| 15.12.1973 | Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens |
| 15.12.1973 | Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland |
| 15.12.1973 | Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year |
| 15.12.1973 | Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game |
| 15.12.1973 | US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill |
| 15.12.1974 | A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) |
| 15.12.1976 | "Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground" |
| 15.12.1976 | Jamaica premier Manley wins elections |
| 15.12.1978 | Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James |
| 15.12.1978 | "Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore" |
| 15.12.1979 | Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama |
| 15.12.1979 | World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages |
| 15.12.1980 | "New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M" |
| 15.12.1980 | Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena |
| 15.12.1980 | ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw |
| 15.12.1981 | 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 15.12.1981 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 15.12.1982 | Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants |
| 15.12.1982 | "Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery" |
| 15.12.1982 | Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved |
| 15.12.1982 | Spain reopens border with Gibraltar |
| 15.12.1983 | 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage |
| 15.12.1983 | "Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB" |
| 15.12.1983 | Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew |
| 15.12.1983 | "Wendy Wasserstein's ""Isn't It Romantic,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 15.12.1984 | U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet |
| 15.12.1985 | Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed |
| 15.12.1986 | 150 killed during race riot in Karachi |
| 15.12.1986 | Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift |
| 15.12.1986 | CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure |
| 15.12.1987 | """Les Miserables"" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston" |
| 15.12.1988 | Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks |
| 15.12.1990 | Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter |
| 15.12.1991 | Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
| 15.12.1991 | """Nick and Nora"" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 9 performances" |
| 15.12.1992 | Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year |
| 15.12.1992 | "WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR" |
| 15.12.1993 | British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination |
| 15.12.1993 | "C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed" |
| 15.12.1993 | Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns |
| 15.12.1993 | John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops |
| 15.12.1993 | Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense |
| 15.12.1993 | "Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed" |
| 15.12.1994 | John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier |
| 15.12.1994 | Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia |
| 15.12.1994 | """Tuna Christmas"" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 20 performances" |
| 15.12.1995 | Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland |
| 15.12.1996 | Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
| 15.12.1996 | Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches |
| 15.12.1996 | Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches |
| 15.12.1997 | San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16 |
| 16.12.882 | Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII |
| 16.12.1431 | King Henry VI of England crowned king of France |
| 16.12.1538 | King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants |
| 16.12.1577 | Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory |
| 16.12.1617 | Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata (Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay) |
| 16.12.1631 | "Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages and kills 4,000" |
| 16.12.1653 | Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector |
| 16.12.1659 | General Monck demands free parliamentary election in Scotland |
| 16.12.1689 | English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution |
| 16.12.1740 | Prussian Libya falls to Silezie |
| 16.12.1761 | Russian army occupies Kolberg |
| 16.12.1767 | "Van Ritter von Glucks opera ""Alceste"" premiers" |
| 16.12.1773 | Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party) |
| 16.12.1809 | Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate |
| 16.12.1811 | "8.0 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri" |
| 16.12.1817 | Leaders of Molukkas uprising hanged in Ambon |
| 16.12.1824 | Great North Holland Canal opens |
| 16.12.1835 | Fire consumes over 600 buildings in New York City |
| 16.12.1838 | Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa |
| 16.12.1857 | "Earthquake in Naples, Italy" |
| 16.12.1858 | Dutch government decides to vacate Schokland Island |
| 16.12.1862 | Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution |
| 16.12.1864 | Battle of Nashville ends after 4400 casualities |
| 16.12.1877 | "Anton Bruckner's 3rd Symphony in D, premieres" |
| 16.12.1880 | Republic of South-Africa forms |
| 16.12.1884 | Great Britain recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
| 16.12.1886 | "Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over ""Doleantie""" |
| 16.12.1890 | "Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN" |
| 16.12.1892 | "Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA vs. NSW" |
| 16.12.1893 | "Anton Dvorak's ""New World Symphony"" premieres" |
| 16.12.1897 | 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated |
| 16.12.1900 | Boer army under gen Kritzinger take Cape colony |
| 16.12.1901 | Boer general Kritzinger captured |
| 16.12.1903 | "Majestic Theater, New York City, becomes 1st in U.S. to employ women ushers" |
| 16.12.1905 | """Variety,"" covering all phases of show business, 1st published" |
| 16.12.1907 | Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Brooklyn Navy Yard New York) |
| 16.12.1907 | Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise |
| 16.12.1908 | 1st credit union in U.S. forms (Manchester NH) |
| 16.12.1909 | US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office |
| 16.12.1912 | "1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued" |
| 16.12.1912 | Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia |
| 16.12.1913 | Charlie Chaplin began his film career at Keystone for $150 a week |
| 16.12.1914 | French offensive in Artois (Petain) |
| 16.12.1915 | Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity |
| 16.12.1918 | Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds |
| 16.12.1920 | "8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000 miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die" |
| 16.12.1922 | Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Baseball Clubs) formally organizes |
| 16.12.1922 | NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket |
| 16.12.1924 | "Noel Coward's ""Vortex,"" premieres in London" |
| 16.12.1926 | "Darius Milhauds opera ""Le Pauvre Matelot,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 16.12.1926 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis renewed 7-years as baseball commissioner |
| 16.12.1926 | WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions |
| 16.12.1927 | "Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW vs. South Australia" |
| 16.12.1929 | "Chicago Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1" |
| 16.12.1930 | Golfer Bobby Jones wins James E Sullivan Award |
| 16.12.1931 | German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism |
| 16.12.1932 | "Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed" |
| 16.12.1933 | Abe de Vries and Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht |
| 16.12.1936 | "John Monks/Fred Finklehoff's ""Brother Rat,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 16.12.1938 | "Bradman scores 143 South Aust vs. NSW, 11 fours 91 singles" |
| 16.12.1939 | "Bradman scores 251* SA vs. NSW, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes" |
| 16.12.1940 | British air raid on Mannheim |
| 16.12.1940 | Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in 6 for heavyweight boxing title in Chicago |
| 16.12.1941 | Sarawak occupied by Japanese |
| 16.12.1942 | Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and Balkan |
| 16.12.1943 | """Tamiami Champion"" trains collide, kills 73 and injures 200" |
| 16.12.1944 | Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium |
| 16.12.1944 | Gen Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie |
| 16.12.1944 | German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill) |
| 16.12.1944 | "US 2nd Inf division occupies ""Heartbreak Crossroads"" Wahlerscheid" |
| 16.12.1945 | Cleveland Rams win NFL championship |
| 16.12.1948 | """Lend an Ear"" opens at National Theater New York City for 460 performances" |
| 16.12.1949 | "Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier" |
| 16.12.1950 | """Let's Make an Opera"" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 5 performances" |
| 16.12.1950 | "Truman proclaims state of emergency against ""Communist imperialism""" |
| 16.12.1953 | 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower and 161 reporters) |
| 16.12.1953 | "Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A" |
| 16.12.1956 | """Fanny"" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 888 performances" |
| 16.12.1958 | Bogota warehouse fire kills 82 |
| 16.12.1959 | Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48 |
| 16.12.1960 | "TWA 266 and United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134" |
| 16.12.1960 | """Wildcat"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 172 performances" |
| 16.12.1961 | """Evening with Yves Montand"" opens at John Golden New York City after 55 performances" |
| 16.12.1962 | "David Lean's ""Lawrence of Arabia"" premieres" |
| 16.12.1962 | Nepal gets constitution/becomes Constitutional Hindu Monarchy |
| 16.12.1962 | New York Giant YA Title sets NFL season touchdown pass record at 33 with 6 touchdowns vs Dallas (41-31) |
| 16.12.1964 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| 16.12.1965 | Gemini 6 returns to Earth |
| 16.12.1965 | Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit |
| 16.12.1965 | "Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga" |
| 16.12.1966 | "Beatles release ""Everywhere its Christmas"" in UK" |
| 16.12.1966 | "Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, ""Hey Joe,"" in the UK" |
| 16.12.1967 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago |
| 16.12.1968 | "KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin begins broadcasting" |
| 16.12.1969 | Brit House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty |
| 16.12.1969 | """War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko"" posters begin appearing" |
| 16.12.1970 | 1st successful landing on Venus (U.S.S.R.) |
| 16.12.1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 16.12.1971 | Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan |
| 16.12.1971 | "Don McLean's 8+ minute version of ""American Pie"" released" |
| 16.12.1971 | "India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders" |
| 16.12.1972 | Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect |
| 16.12.1972 | Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0) |
| 16.12.1973 | "O. J. Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season" |
| 16.12.1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 16.12.1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 16.12.1975 | "1st broadcast of ""One Day at a Time"" on CBS TV" |
| 16.12.1975 | Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn |
| 16.12.1976 | Andrew Young named Ambassador and Chief U.S. Delegate to UN |
| 16.12.1976 | Charlie Finley's $10 million damage suit against Bowie Kuhn begins |
| 16.12.1976 | Government halts swine flu vaccination prog following reports of paralysis |
| 16.12.1976 | "Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea" |
| 16.12.1978 | Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR |
| 16.12.1979 | 68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0) |
| 16.12.1979 | QB Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys |
| 16.12.1980 | Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State |
| 16.12.1981 | Dutch Van Agt's 2nd government falls |
| 16.12.1982 | Tom Seaver agrees to new contract with Mets |
| 16.12.1983 | Spokesperson for The Who announces the group is disbanding |
| 16.12.1983 | Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time |
| 16.12.1985 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission |
| 16.12.1987 | Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea |
| 16.12.1988 | "Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud" |
| 16.12.1989 | "Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)" |
| 16.12.1989 | Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia |
| 16.12.1990 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti |
| 16.12.1990 | "KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions" |
| 16.12.1991 | "Florida Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez" |
| 16.12.1991 | U.N. reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote |
| 16.12.1993 | """Red Shoes"" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 5 performances" |
| 16.12.1993 | Shannen Doherty (Brenda) is fired from Beverly Hills 90210 |
| 16.12.1994 | "Davy Jones (Monkees), charged with DWI" |
| 16.12.1997 | "President Clinton names his Labrador retriever, ""Buddy""" |
| 17.12.283 | St. Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 17.12.1526 | Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia |
| 17.12.1526 | Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition |
| 17.12.1538 | Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII |
| 17.12.1572 | Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands |
| 17.12.1587 | Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands |
| 17.12.1638 | French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine |
| 17.12.1718 | England declares war on Spain |
| 17.12.1728 | "Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue" |
| 17.12.1745 | Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland |
| 17.12.1777 | France recognizes independence of English colonies in America |
| 17.12.1777 | George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pa |
| 17.12.1788 | Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov |
| 17.12.1790 | Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City |
| 17.12.1791 | New York City traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street |
| 17.12.1792 | Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city |
| 17.12.1798 | "1st impeachment trial against a U.S. senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins" |
| 17.12.1819 | Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain |
| 17.12.1821 | Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons |
| 17.12.1832 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire |
| 17.12.1852 | 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized |
| 17.12.1860 | Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County |
| 17.12.1862 | "Gen U.S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee" |
| 17.12.1864 | "Battle of Franklin, TN" |
| 17.12.1865 | "Franz Schubert's ""Unvolendete"" Symphony,"" premieres" |
| 17.12.1875 | Violent bread riots in Montreal |
| 17.12.1885 | France declares Madagascar a protectorate |
| 17.12.1887 | "Georges Feydeaus' ""Tailleur Pour Dames"" premieres in Paris" |
| 17.12.1892 | "Tsjaikovski's ballet ""Casse-noisette,"" premieres in St. Petersburg" |
| 17.12.1893 | Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France |
| 17.12.1894 | "Cricket day 3 1T Aus vs. Eng Eng 325 all out, 261 behind on 1st inn" |
| 17.12.1895 | "Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, D.C." |
| 17.12.1895 | George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass) |
| 17.12.1900 | "1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy" |
| 17.12.1900 | New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million |
| 17.12.1902 | "Frank Wedekind's ""Der Erdgeist,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 17.12.1903 | "At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)" |
| 17.12.1907 | Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan |
| 17.12.1909 | "Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels" |
| 17.12.1914 | Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland |
| 17.12.1914 | Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate |
| 17.12.1914 | Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities |
| 17.12.1919 | Austria parliament approves 8-hour day |
| 17.12.1920 | AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it |
| 17.12.1920 | British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru |
| 17.12.1920 | Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands |
| 17.12.1920 | South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa |
| 17.12.1922 | Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate |
| 17.12.1923 | Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic |
| 17.12.1924 | "1st U.S. diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, New York" |
| 17.12.1925 | "Col William ""Billy"" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination" |
| 17.12.1925 | Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact |
| 17.12.1926 | German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army |
| 17.12.1926 | "KYA-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions" |
| 17.12.1926 | Lithuanian military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras |
| 17.12.1927 | "Bradman scores 118 on 1st-class cricket debut, 188 mins 8 fours" |
| 17.12.1927 | U.S. submarine 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard |
| 17.12.1927 | "Victoria score 793 against Queensland, Bill Ponsford 437" |
| 17.12.1928 | John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea |
| 17.12.1932 | Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll |
| 17.12.1933 | "B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, Eng vs. India at Bombay" |
| 17.12.1933 | Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118) |
| 17.12.1933 | NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game |
| 17.12.1933 | Spain's 2nd Government of Lerroux forms |
| 17.12.1936 | "Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV" |
| 17.12.1938 | Utrecht Central Station destroyed by fire |
| 17.12.1939 | German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay |
| 17.12.1940 | British troops occupies Sollum |
| 17.12.1941 | Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor |
| 17.12.1941 | German submarine U-31 sunk |
| 17.12.1941 | German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
| 17.12.1942 | Allies in London sentence German war criminals |
| 17.12.1943 | Transport 63 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 17.12.1944 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| 17.12.1944 | Japanese-Americans released from detention camps |
| 17.12.1944 | M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service and is extended to Market St |
| 17.12.1944 | U.S. Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast |
| 17.12.1944 | "US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed" |
| 17.12.1946 | "Bradman and Barnes complete 405 run 5th wkt stand, score 234 ea" |
| 17.12.1946 | "U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM" |
| 17.12.1947 | "NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27"" of snow" |
| 17.12.1947 | "WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 17.12.1949 | Burma recognizes People's Republic of China |
| 17.12.1949 | """Regina"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 86 performances" |
| 17.12.1951 | Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants |
| 17.12.1953 | "Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad" |
| 17.12.1953 | FCC approves RCA's black and white - compatible color TV specifications |
| 17.12.1954 | "1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)" |
| 17.12.1954 | "WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 17.12.1957 | US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile |
| 17.12.1959 | 1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach) |
| 17.12.1959 | """On The Beach,"" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron Curtain" |
| 17.12.1960 | """La Plume de Ma Tante"" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 835 performances" |
| 17.12.1960 | "Pablo Casals' oratorio ""El Pesebrio,"" premieres" |
| 17.12.1960 | """Take Me Along"" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 448 performances" |
| 17.12.1961 | Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil |
| 17.12.1961 | India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies |
| 17.12.1961 | Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die |
| 17.12.1962 | Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places) |
| 17.12.1962 | Current constitution of Monaco promulgated |
| 17.12.1963 | Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea |
| 17.12.1963 | West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules |
| 17.12.1965 | "Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland and Supremes concert" |
| 17.12.1965 | British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia |
| 17.12.1965 | David Levy begins his search for comets |
| 17.12.1965 | Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine |
| 17.12.1965 | Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50 cents ) |
| 17.12.1967 | "WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 17.12.1969 | "50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show" |
| 17.12.1969 | "USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings" |
| 17.12.1970 | "Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike" |
| 17.12.1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 17.12.1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 17.12.1971 | Cease fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir |
| 17.12.1971 | """Diamonds are Forever"" premieres in US" |
| 17.12.1971 | Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting |
| 17.12.1972 | New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan |
| 17.12.1972 | "WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 17.12.1973 | Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait |
| 17.12.1975 | "1st time New York Islanders shut-out New York Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th" |
| 17.12.1975 | John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court |
| 17.12.1975 | Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on President Ford's life |
| 17.12.1976 | Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national |
| 17.12.1977 | "Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia vs. India at the WACA, aged 41" |
| 17.12.1977 | Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st U.S. TV appearance (SNL) |
| 17.12.1977 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 17.12.1978 | OPEC raises oil prices 18% |
| 17.12.1978 | Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda |
| 17.12.1979 | Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph |
| 17.12.1980 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 17.12.1980 | Mauritania provisional constitution published |
| 17.12.1981 | Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier |
| 17.12.1983 | "Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured" |
| 17.12.1983 | Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die |
| 17.12.1983 | """Peg"" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 5 performances" |
| 17.12.1984 | New Jersey Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton |
| 17.12.1984 | "New Jersey Devils 1st shutout, Glenn Resch makes 42 saves beat Minn, 2-0" |
| 17.12.1986 | "Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)" |
| 17.12.1986 | U.S. Congress forms Irangate committee |
| 17.12.1987 | Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns |
| 17.12.1988 | 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1) |
| 17.12.1988 | Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Caps) |
| 17.12.1988 | "New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2" |
| 17.12.1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 17.12.1988 | "USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned" |
| 17.12.1989 | 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2) |
| 17.12.1989 | Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello pres |
| 17.12.1989 | Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA vs. WA) |
| 17.12.1989 | Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 17.12.1990 | "KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions" |
| 17.12.1991 | "Cleveland Cavaliers beat Miami Heat 148-80, by record 68 pts" |
| 17.12.1991 | NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80 |
| 17.12.1991 | Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago |
| 17.12.1991 | "Soap opera ""One Life To Live"" airs its 6,000th episode" |
| 17.12.1992 | """Christmas Carol"" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 22 performances" |
| 17.12.1992 | Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus |
| 17.12.1993 | Bangladesh moslem call for murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin |
| 17.12.1993 | Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54) |
| 17.12.1993 | Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse |
| 17.12.1993 | Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27) |
| 17.12.1994 | KLM's last DC-10 goes out of service |
| 17.12.1995 | """School after Scandal"" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 23 performances" |
| 18.12.1118 | Alfonso van Aragon occupies Saragossa on Almoraviden |
| 18.12.1352 | Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI |
| 18.12.1406 | Anton van Bourgondies becomes duke of Brabant |
| 18.12.1603 | Admiral Steven van der Haghens fleet departs to East-Indies |
| 18.12.1621 | "English parliament accept unanimously, Protestation" |
| 18.12.1719 | "Thomas Fleet publishes ""Mother Goose's Melodies For Children""" |
| 18.12.1774 | "Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia" |
| 18.12.1777 | "1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender" |
| 18.12.1783 | English king George III fires government of Portland |
| 18.12.1787 | New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution |
| 18.12.1796 | 1st U.S. newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor) |
| 18.12.1799 | George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon |
| 18.12.1813 | British take Ft. Niagara in War of 1812 |
| 18.12.1832 | Charles Darwins visits Vurland |
| 18.12.1839 | "1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in U.S., John Draper, New York City" |
| 18.12.1849 | William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope |
| 18.12.1858 | "Passy, at Paris: 1st ""Samedi soir"" i/d villa of lovers Rossini" |
| 18.12.1859 | "South Carolina declared an ""independent commonwealth""" |
| 18.12.1862 | "Battle at Lexington, Tennessee (Forrest's Second Raid)" |
| 18.12.1865 | "13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished" |
| 18.12.1865 | 1st U.S. cattle importation law passed |
| 18.12.1869 | Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club plays its 1st game |
| 18.12.1878 | "French SS Byzantin sinks after collision in Dardanellen, 210 killed" |
| 18.12.1890 |