1926 – KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1939 – South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland
1953 – Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Gilliam wins NL Rookie of Year
1970 – French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970 – 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie’s play “The Mousetrap” (record) in London’s West End
1972 – “Immaculate Reception” Steelers turns around a 7-6 defeat with a last second touchdown reception against Raiders to win 13-7
1972 – New York Islanders end 15 games winless streak
1977 – British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens formally converts to Islam, taking the name Yusuf Islam
1997 – “As Good as It Gets” film released written and directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt
2012 – The Seleka rebel coalition takes over Bambari, the third largest town in the Central African Republic
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 22nd December 2022
1939 – Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 – Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1943 – Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1965 – Great Britain sets national maximum road speed at 70 miles per hour
1966 – WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 – Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment
1980 – MLB St. Louis Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1989 – Republic of Chad (Africa) adopts its Constitution
1990 – Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games
1990 – Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
Historical Events for 21st December 2022
1900 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Michael Kramer” premieres in Berlin
1929 – 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx)
1944 – Cards’ Marty Marion wins NL MVP
1949 – “Samson and Delilah”, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York
1959 – Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
1975 – Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Stockholm, Sweden: Home town hero Björn Borg beats Czech Jan Kodeš 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to give Sweden unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
1975 – “Very Good Eddie” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances
1978 – Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’ musical “A Broadway Musical” opens and closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 1 performance
2005 – Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK, with singer Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union
2020 – Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley
Historical Events for 20th December 2022
1823 – Play “Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus” by Helmina von Chézy with incidental music by Franz Schubert premieres in Vienna
1862 – Confederate raid on Union supplies at Holly Springs, Mississippi
1921 – AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9; Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
1926 – St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby to NY Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring; concerns over Hornsby’s gambling
1937 – Australian cricket spin bowler Bill O’Reilly takes career best 9-41 for NSW in a Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval
1966 – Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1970 – Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland’s communist party leader
1991 – NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators
2001 – 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne (3-2)
2017 – Lady Gaga signs Las Vegas residency deal for $75m at MGM Park Theatre
Historical Events for 19th December 2022
1154 – King Henry II of England crowned King of England
1562 – Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency and huguenots under Condé captured
1859 – Grading started for Market Street RR in San Francisco
1862 – Skirmish at Jackson, Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties)
1917 – Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
1919 – American Meteorological Society found
1969 – Beatle’s 7th Christmas fan-club single is released
1980 – Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo’s corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
2018 – First use of a drone to deliver vaccines – to island of Erromango, Vanuatu, by Unicef
Historical Events for 18th December 2022
1774 – Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia
1902 – British parliament passes the Education Act, which will come to be regarded as the most important legislation of Arthur Balfour’s government
1932 – National Football League Championship; Playoff, Chicago Stadium: Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans, 9-0
1935 – Edvard Beneš becomes President of Czechoslovakia after Tomáš Masaryk retires
1962 – Ballon d’Or: Dukler Prague midfielder Josef Masopust wins award for best European football player; beats Benfica striker Eusébio and FC Köln defender Karl-Heinz Schnellinger
1963 – “The Pink Panther” film premieres, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers and David Niven, with theme by Henry Mancini
1963 – Muskegon, Michigan gets 3′ of snow
1970 – Polish uprising fails
1976 – Soviet dissident Viktor Bukovskiexchanged for Chile CP-leader Corvalan
1978 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
Historical Events for 17th December 2022
1819 – Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia’s independence from Spain
1885 – France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1946 – US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
1970 – Workers returning to shipyard in Gdynia, Poland are met by soldiers who shoot at the crowd, killing at least 18, wounding hundreds
1970 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 – Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
1977 – Elvis Costello and The Attractions 1st US TV appearance on “Saturday Night Live”
1983 – In his 352nd NHL game, Wayne Gretzky scores a goal and 5 assists in 8-1 rout of Quebec Nordiques to record his 800th point and 500th assist; averages 2.27 points, 1.42 assists, 0.85 goals per game to start career
1992 – “A Christmas Carol” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 22 performances
2019 – Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in absentia for high treason
Historical Events for 16th December 2022
1900 – A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes
1912 – 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
1960 – “Wildcat” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 172 performances
1965 – Gemini 6 returns to Earth
1974 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1975 – Bill Veeck buys 80% of MLB Chicago White Sox from John Allyn
1979 – Dallas QB Roger Staubach throws 3 TDs and 336 yards in his last NFL regular season game with the Cowboys, a 35-34 win over Washington Redskins at Texas Stadium
1990 – Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
1997 – US President Bill Clinton names his Labrador retriever “Buddy”
2020 – Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death
Historical Events for 15th December 2022
1569 – Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in “The Rising of the North”, Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, escapes to Scotland.
1840 – Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death
1863 – Romania’s mountain railway, from Anina to Oravita, opens
1944 – Hizbu’allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
1965 – D Heneker and J Taylor’s musical “Charlie Girl” premieres in London
1980 – Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N’djamena
1986 – CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
2011 – ESPN and the NCAA extend their TV rights deal through 2023-24, giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to 24 NCAA championships for various sports; deal worth $500m
2017 – Anita Hill is appointed to lead a Hollywood commission on sexual harassment, spearheaded by Kathleen Kennedy
2020 – MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations across the US
Historical Events for 14th December 2022
1575 – Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland
1914 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, to regulate and tax production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products
1920 – Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC
1954 – WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – 16 countries join the United Nations, including Austria, Finland, Italy, and Spain
1959 – The album “Time Out” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is released, peaking at No. 2 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and becomes the first jazz album to sell a million copies.
1960 – Washington Senators joins American League
1980 – Massacre at Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles with 3 people killed and 6 injured
1991 – Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, 476 killed
2019 – Miss World won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London. First time all five major beauty titles held by black women.