0192 - Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31 0335 - St Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope 0406 - 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz 0406 - Godagisel, king of the Vandals, dies in battle 0765 - Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China 0870 - Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army 1384 - John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies 1492 - 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily 1502 - Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino 1564 - Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion 1600 - British East India Company chartered 1604 - Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam 1621 - Hungarian King Bethlen G bor/Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Mikulov 1669 - France & Brandenburg sign secret treaty 1670 - France & England sign Boyne-treaty 1687 - 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope 1688 - Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham [OS=Dec 21 1700 - Frisia/Groningen adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 1/12/1701 1708 - Great Alliance captures Bridge 1711 - Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander 1744 - James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble) 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk 1756 - Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles 1758 - British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal 1762 - Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg 1775 - Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold 1779 - English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels 1781 - Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens 1783 - Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states 1805 - End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism 1841 - Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons 1852 - Future president & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry 1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada 1859 - Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves 1861 - 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record 1862 - -Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River, TN (Stone River, Monfreesboro) 1862 - Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee 1862 - President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union 1862 - Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee 1862 - Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, NC 1870 - J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done) 1879 - Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace in Hawaii(only royal palace in US) 1879 - Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp 1879 - Gilbert/Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in NYC 1890 - Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot 1896 - 25th auto built in US 1897 - Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898) 1902 - Boers & British army sign peace treaty 1906 - French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia 1907 - For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year 1907 - G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera 1910 - US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910 1911 - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize 1914 - Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000 1917 - Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members 1918 - Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager 1921 - Last San Francisco firehorses retired 1923 - 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester 1923 - BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID 1923 - H Tierney/J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in NYC 1924 - Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies 1925 - 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry 1927 - Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month 1929 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri 1930 - Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages 1930 - US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930 1932 - John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of NYC 1934 - Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport 1935 - CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party 1935 - Charles Darrow patents Monopoly 1938 - Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana 1938 - Dutch national debt hits ?3,986,629,805.70 1939 - 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton) 1940 - 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton) 1941 - Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young 1942 - 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton) 1942 - Battle in Barents Sea 1942 - Potatoes rationed in Holland 1943 - NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater 1944 - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah 1944 - Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab 1945 - Ratification of UN Charter completed 1946 - French troops leave Lebanon 1946 - President Truman officially proclaims end of WW II 1948 - Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike 1949 - 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia 1950 - Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year 1951 - 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced 1953 - Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year 1958 - 47th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2) 1958 - Cubans dictator Batista flees 1958 - International Geophyscial Year ends 1958 - Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X 1961 - 1st performance of Beach Boys 1961 - Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon 1961 - Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game 1961 - Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion 1962 - "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn 1962 - American Basketball League announces suspension of operation 1962 - Dutch leave New Guinea 1962 - Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo 1962 - Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs 1963 - Chicago Bears win NFL championship 1963 - Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years) 1963 - Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time 1964 - Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph) 1964 - Indonesia expelled from the UN 1966 - Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks 1967 - 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118 1967 - Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game 1967 - Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13?lt;br /> 1968 - 1st supersonic airliner - Tupolev - flown (Russian TU-144) 1968 - NY Jets win AFL championship 1969 - Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi 1970 - Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin 1970 - Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles 1970 - President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines 1971 - Lt Gen Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1972 - Miami Dolphins beat Pitts Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game 1972 - Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game 1973 - 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23 1973 - 61st Australian Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61) 1973 - Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year 1974 - 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10 1974 - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year NY Yank contract 1974 - Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin 1974 - Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac 1974 - NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 yrs for record $3.75 million 1974 - Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer 1975 - 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6 1976 - TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run 1976 - The Cars played their 1st gig 1977 - Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait 1977 - Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam 1977 - Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa 1977 - Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado 1978 - CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy 1978 - Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier 1978 - Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US 1979 - Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts 1980 - A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18 1980 - NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks 1980 - Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns 1981 - CNN Headline News debuts 1981 - Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution 1981 - Netherlands unemployment stands at record 475,000 1982 - CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years 1982 - NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features 1982 - TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run 1983 - Brunei gains complete independence from Britain 1983 - Jos? Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium 1983 - Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup 1984 - Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash 1984 - NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH 1984 - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira 1984 - US leaves UNESCO 1986 - Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97 1986 - Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound 1989 - Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi 1989 - Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles 1989 - Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year 1990 - Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds 1990 - Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting 1990 - United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace 1991 - CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance 1991 - Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner 1991 - J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner 1991 - USSR, last day of existence 1992 - Target date for Europe's single market 1992 - WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry 1993 - Barbara Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years 1993 - Loveboat actress Jill Whelan (27) weds Brad St John (33) 1994 - 1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland 1994 - Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands 1995 - Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip 1995 - Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria 1997 - Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268 1997 - Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills 1997 - Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service 1997 - More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809 1997 - Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba 1997 - S Afr & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head 1998 - US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year 1999 - Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
