1794 – French troops conquer Grave Neth
1917 – -37°F (-38°C) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
1922 – Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR
1943 – Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps and cash
1944 – Sergei Prokofjev’s 8th Piano sonata, premieres in Moscow
1963 – Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 – Canadian Senate OK’s free trade pact; with US
1990 – 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
1992 – Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 29th December 2021
1558 – Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, buried in El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
1845 – Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union
1899 – British fleet seizes German Imperial Mail Steamer Bundesrath accused of carrying contraband
1911 – Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China
1948 – US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1968 – AFL Championship, Shea Stadium, NYC: New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23; Joe Namath 3 TD passes sparks Jets to win
1974 – NFC Championship, Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington: Minnesota Vikings beat Los Angeles Rams, 14-10
1977 – Ronald Ribman’s “Cold Storage” premieres in NYC
1978 – Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG
2013 – 16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia
Historical Events for 28th December 2021
1612 – First observation of Neptune – Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is a planet
1934 – Film “Bright Eyes” premieres starring Shirley Temple and featuring the song “On the Good Ship Lollipop”
1938 – Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut v South Africa
1963 – Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Adelaide: American Chuck McKinley beats Australia’s John Newcombe 10-12, 6-2, 9-7, 6-2 in the deciding rubber to give US a thrilling 3-2 victory
1966 – 13 die in a train crash in Everett, Massachusetts
1972 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 – 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2), helped by Pat Davis ranked 412th in the world
1991 – Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
1993 – Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
2015 – Japan and South Korea reach agreement over WWII “comfort women”, Japan apologies and pays 1bn yen compensation
Historical Events for 27th December 2021
1924 – The US signs a treaty with the Dominican Republic, which supersedes that of 1907: in July, the Us had withdrawn its Marines and ended its occupation
1951 – 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)
1953 – National Football League Championship, Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 17-16 to retain title
1959 – National Football League Championship, Memorial Stadium, Baltimore: Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants, 31-16; Colts score 24 straight points in 4th quarter
1961 – Styne, Comden and Green’s musical “Subways Are fFor Sleeping” premieres at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 205 performances
1974 – FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
1976 – Albania constitution goes into effect
1991 – Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
2012 – NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025
2013 – 29 people are killed after a bus plunged off the Huay Tong Bridge, Thailand
Historical Events for 26th December 2021
1799 – George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as “1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen”
1870 – The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1872 – 4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18″)
1892 – Opera “Cristoforo Colombo” is produced (La Scala)
1950 – Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
1963 – US furnishes cereal to USSR
1972 – Ballon d’Or: Bayern Munich defender Franz Beckenbauer wins award for best European football player ahead of tied fellow German duo of Gerd Müller and Günter Netzer
1975 – 5th Fiesta Bowl: #7 Arizona State beats #6 Nebraska, 17-14
1986 – TV soap “Search for Tomorrow” ends 35 year run
1991 – NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with ½ second left
Historical Events for 25th December 2021
390 – Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in Thessalonica
1643 – Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary.
1776 – George Washington crosses Delaware, surprises and defeats 1,400 Hessians
1931 – Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria v Tas at Hobart
1939 – Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th red-nosed reindeer
1939 – Grimmett and Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
1959 – A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
1968 – 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers
1969 – 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
1976 – Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
Historical Events for 24th December 2021
1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook
1832 – 1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia
1851 – Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes
1912 – Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
1928 – George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St NYC
1932 – Arturo Alessandri wins presidential election in Chile
1935 – National Council of Negro Women forms
1950 – National Football League Championship, Cleveland Stadium: Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams, 30-28; Cleveland has 5 interceptions, Rams 1
1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
2001 – “Time Magazine” names New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani ‘Person of the Year’, for leadership after 9/11 attacks
Historical Events for 23rd December 2021
1688 – King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange
1692 – Nahum Tate is appointed the third Poet Laureate by English monarchs William and Mary
1912 – Indian revolutionary underground in Bengal and Punjab, headed by Rash Behari Bose attempt to assassinate Viceroy of India Lord Hardinge, by throwing homemade bomb into Viceroys’s Howdah (elephant carriage) during ceremonial procession in Delhi. Although wounded, the Viceroy survives. Investigations lead to the Delhi conspiracy trial.
1939 – Finnish counter offensive at Summa
1945 – Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
1946 – University of Tennessee refuses to play Duquesne University after they suggested they may use a black player in their basketball game
1958 – Musical Revue “Party with Comden and Green” opens at John Golden NYC for 38 performances
1970 – USSR performs nuclear test
1971 – US President Richard Nixon commutes remaining 8 years of Teamsters labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa’s 13-year jail term for bribery and fraud
2005 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.
Historical Events for 22nd December 2021
1536 – English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1940 – World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
1941 – Japan’s invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1952 – WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1957 – KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
1965 – Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
1974 – 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975
1983 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1988 – South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
1989 – Republic of Chad (Africa) adopts its Constitution
Historical Events for 21st December 2021
1864 – General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia
1900 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Michael Kramer” premieres in Berlin
1919 – J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
1941 – German submarine U-567 sinks
1948 – State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
1975 – Madagascar adopts constitution
1975 – 1st NY Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins)
1979 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 – Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
2020 – US President-elect Joe Biden receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV