- 473 The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I
- 1183 Battle of Mizushima: Japanese Taira clan defeat the Minamoto
- 1278 680 Jews are arrested in England for counterfeiting coins, and 293 are hanged
- 1292 (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scots
Charles VIII and Anne of Brittany
1491 Anne of Brittany becomes engaged to King Charles VIII of France
- 1511 England, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign anti-French covenant The Treaty of Westminster
1558 Elizabeth I, aged 25, ascends the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I
Church of England Independence
1558 The independence of the Church of England is re-established upon ascension of Elizabeth I to the throne
Walter Raleigh
1603 English explorer, writer and courtier Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason
Andromaque
1667 Jean Racine‘s tragedy “Andromaque” premieres in Paris in the private chambers of Queen Marie-Thérèse
Battle of Arcole
1796 Battle of Arcole: French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat an Austrian force led by József Alvinczi after a 3 day battle at Arcole, Republic of Venice
- 1798 Beginning of a 5 day New England Blizzard that covers thousands of houses and kills hundreds
- 1800 Congress meets for the first time in the newly built but still incomplete Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., established by the Residence Act of 1790
- 1812 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Krasnoi during Napoleon‘s retreat from Moscow
- 1827 The Delta Phi fraternity, America’s oldest continuous social fraternity, founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York
- 1831 Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran Colombia
Oberto
1839 Giuseppe Verdi‘s opera “Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio” premieres at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Victoria Falls
1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe
Fredericksburg Campaign
1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign
- 1863 -Dec 4th) Battle of Knoxville, Tennessee
- 1866 Opera “Mignon” by Ambroise Thomas premieres at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, Francce
- 1869 Englishman James Moore wins the first bicycle race, racing 13 km from Paris to Rouen, France
- 1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking the Mediterranean and Red seas
- 1871 National Rifle Association is first chartered in the State of New York
- 1873 Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
- 1874 Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland, New Zealand
- 1875 American Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Colonel Olcott
- 1877 Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia
Sullivan Arrested
1884 Police arrest boxer John L. Sullivan in the second round of a match for being “cruel”
- 1885 The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria
- 1888 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘ conducts the premiere of his 5th Symphony at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia
- 1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & San Francisco
- 1894 Daily Racing Form founded
Killer Holmes Arrested
1894 Serial killer H. H. Holmes is arrested in Boston after being tracked there from Philadelphia by the Pinkertons
- 1903 Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate
- 1903 In the Treaty of Petropolis, Bolivia cedes the territory of Arce to Brazil; Bolivia gains rail and water outlets in the east
- 1905 The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea
- 1913 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Connecticut
- 1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
- 1914 US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
Freedom of the Press
1917 Vladimir Lenin defends “temporary” removal of freedom of the press
- 1918 German troops evacuate Brussels
- 1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship
Politburo Power Struggle
1929 Nikolai Bukharin is expelled from the Soviet Politburo amidst a power struggle with Joseph Stalin
- 1929 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
American Clipper
1931 Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat “American Clipper”
- 1931 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opens Whitney Museum of American Art on West Eighth Street. NY, after the Met Museum refuses to accept her collection [1]
- 1932 German government of von Papen resigns
- 1933 Marx Brothers film “Duck Soup,” directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers, is released in the US
- 1933 United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
- 1936 Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy become an overnight success on radio
- 1937 Britain’s Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
- 1938 Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
- 1939 German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
- 1939 The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection created
- 1940 Green Bay Packers become the first NFL team to travel by plane
- 1941 Virgil Thomson’s 2nd Symphony, premieres
- 1945 H. J. Wilson of the RAF sets a new world airspeed record of 606 mph (975 km/h)
- 1947 The Screen Actors Guild in the US implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath
- 1948 Britain’s House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
- 1951 Britain reports development of the world’s first nuclear-powered heating system
- 1953 St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
- 1953 The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland
- 1953 United States joins the United Nations in condemning Israel’s raid on Jordan on October 4, 1953
McCovey Rookie of Year
1959 SF Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of the Year
- 1959 William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
- 1960 New MLB Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1964 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
- 1965 General Meeting of UN refuses admittance of People’s Republic of China
- 1965 The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the la Drang Valley, almost wiping them out
- 1965 William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
- 1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks at over 150,000 per hour for 20 minutes, a storm so intense that some people think it is the end of the world
- 1967 Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names
Monkee Opens Boutique
1967 Davy Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique, Zilch I, in Greenwich Village, New York
- 1967 French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
- 1967 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
- 1968 “Heidi Game”, NBC cuts to show “Heidi” and misses Raider’s rally to beat Jets, 43-32
- 1968 Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
TV Show Appearance
1968 Beatle George Harrison makes cameo appearance on American television’s “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”
Elton John’s Live Studio Concert
1970 Elton John performs a live studio concert broadcast for WABC in New York City, later released as his 11-17-70 album
- 1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
- 1973 Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
Nixon: “I’m Not a Crook”
1973 US President Richard Nixon tells AP “…people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook”
- 1974 Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l)
- 1974 Bonnie Bryant becomes the first left-handed player in history to win an LPGA Tour event; scores a 3-stroke victory in the Bill Branch Golf Classic in Fort Myers, Florida
Sadat Accepts Israeli Invitation
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
Salem’s Lot
1979 “Salem’s Lot”, American two-part miniseries based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King, premieres in the United States
- 1979 Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball on a flight to Austin, TX
- 1979 NY Stars (WBL) home opener at Madison Square Garden in NYC
9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
1980 RCA-Victor Records releases “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs”, the 23rd studio album by country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton
- 1980 WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station
- 1981 NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
- 1983 Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship
- 1983 Philadelphia Flyers win 13th straight NHL game
- 1984 Golden State Warrior Purvis Short scores career high 59 points though team loses to NJ Nets 124-110
- 1984 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
Diamond’s 9th Symphony
1985 David Diamond’s 9th Symphony, dedicated to Dmitri Mitropoulos, premieres with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
- 1985 NBC’s premiere of controversial TV thriller “Hostage Flight”
- 1985 NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
- 1987 George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
- 1989 Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29
- 1990 American singer David Crosby breaks his left leg, ankle and shoulder in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles, California
- 1991 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
- 1991 Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs LA Rams
- 1992 “The Bodyguard” movie soundtrack is released by Arista Records (Billboard Album of the Year 1993)
- 1992 Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft
- 1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test
- 1992 Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
- 1993 Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
Nigerian Military Coup
1993 General Sani Abacha leads a military coup against Ernest Shonekan’s transitional administration and returns the Nigerian government to military control
- 1993 US House of Representatives approve Nafta
- 1994 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
- 1994 Irish government of Reynolds resigns
- 1996 “Present Laughter” opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
- 1996 Paleoanthropologists Tim White and Berhane Asfaw discover the 2.5-million-year-old fossils of Australopithecus garhi, representing a new species of early hominid, in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia
- 1997 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
- 1998 Tori Amos release a compilation of her videos, “Tori Amos: The Complete Collection: 1992-1998”
My Love is Your Love
1998 Whitney Houston releases her fourth studio album “My Love is Your Love”
- 2000 A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
Hewitt’s Back-to-Back Titles
2002 Australian Leyton Hewitt scores back-to-back season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a classic 7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4 victory over Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero in Shanghai, China
Britney Spears
2003 Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 2004 Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
Rent
2005 Film adaptation of Joanthan Larson’s musical “Rent”, starring Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, premieres at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC
- 2005 Italy’s choice of national anthem, “Il Canto degli Italiani”, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
- 2006 Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
- 2008 Japan, the world’s second-biggest economy, slides into its first recession in seven years
- 2012 50 schoolchildren and a bus driver are killed after a train collides with a school bus in Manfalut, Egypt
- 2013 50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan, Russia
- 2013 Abdulla Yameen becomes the President of the Maldives
2013 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins a record 8th consecutive Formula 1 race with victory in the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas
- 2013 Giorgi Margvelashvili becomes the President of Georgia
- 2014 The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
- 2015 Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling marry in Clonmel, County Tipperary, in Ireland’s first same-sex wedding
- 2015 Suicide bomber kills more than 30 in a market in Yola, north-eastern Nigeria, with Boko Haram blamed
- 2016 Smaller pyramid find within 2 known Kukulkan “nesting” pyramids announced at Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico, dating to 550-80 AD
Film & TV History
2018 “Danny DeVito Day” observed in the state of New Jersey, championed by Asbury Park mayor John Moor
- 2018 Ireland beats Rugby World Cup champions New Zealand, 16-9 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin; first victory over the All Blacks ever on home soil; flyhalf Johnny Sexton kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
- 2018 Missing Argentine naval submarine ARA San Juan with 44 on board found on sea floor a year after it disappeared off coast of Argentina
- 2018 Protests across France against rising fuel prices leave 400 injured
Oil Unrest In Tehran
2019 Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei labels protesters “thugs” after unrest over higher gasoline prices brought Tehran to a standstill day before
- 2021 British Columbia declares a state of emergency after an “atmospheric river” storm causes widespread rain and flooding [1]
- 2021 Delhi authorities order schools shut till further notice and construction halted as Supreme Court calls for a “pollution lockdown” as city battles winter smog
- 2021 Record number of Americans, over 100,000, died of drug overdoses April 2020 – April 2021 according to the CDC [1]
- 2021 US capitol rioter QAnon Shaman [Jacob Chansley] sentenced to three years in prison by a federal court [1]
- 2021 US National Book Award given to Jason Mott (fiction), Tiya Miles (nonfiction) and MartÃn Espada (poetry)
Pelosi To Step Down
2022 Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the US House of Represetnatives and one of its most influential in recent times, announces she will step down [1]
- 2023 Earth’s hottest day: global average surface temperature more than 2°C (2.06°C) above pre-industrial levels for the first time according to EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service [1]
- 2023 High profile AI boss Sam Altman sacked from the company he co-founded – OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT bot, after the company board “lost confidence” in him [1]
- 2023 Zimbabwe declares a state of emergency in its capital Harare over a cholera outbreak, with 7,398 suspected cases, 50 confirmed deaths, and 109 people in hospital [1]
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