1887 – Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty
1936 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win
1938 – Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)
1939 – National Football League Championship, Dairy Bowl, West Allis, Wisconsin: Green Bay Packers beat New York Giants, 27-0; Packers 5th title
1954 – Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1961 – US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
1965 – Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
1970 – Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chooses not to claim his Nobel Prize in Literature for fear that the USSR would prevent his return afterwards. Accepts in 1974 after he was deported.
1994 – 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
2001 – “The Fellowship of the Ring” Lord of the Rings film directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in London
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th December 2021
1851 – 1st Young Men’s Christian Association in North America set up in Montreal
1908 – The German Reichstag adopts a progressive social law restricting hours of factory work by young people and women
1934 – National Football League Championship, Polo Grounds, NYC: New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears, 30-13
1936 – Australia all out for 58 v England, Bradman out for a duck
1939 – 1940 NFL Draft: George Cafego from University of Tennessee first pick by Chicago Cardinals
1953 – Montreal Canadiens (106) and Toronto Maple Leafs (98) combine for 204 penalty minutes
1960 – 1st broadcast of “Coronation Street” on British ITV
1985 – Argentinian Junta leaders Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Eduardo Massera sentenced to life imprisonment for human rights violations in Buenos Aires
1987 – Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
1993 – Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
Historical Events for 8th December 2021
1881 – Vienna’s Ring Theater destroyed by gaslight fire, killing an estimated 384-1000 people
1962 – Attempted coup in British-controlled Brunei
1963 – Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with 81 killed
1965 – Abe Burrows’ “Cactus Flower” premieres in NYC
1966 – A terrible New York Yankee trade, Roger Maris for St’ Louis Card’s Charlie Smith
1975 – Radio station 4ZZZ begins transmitting in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia at 105.7 FM; frequency changes to 102.1 FM in 1978
1982 – “Herman Van Veen: All of Him” opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 performances
1988 – Knick’s set NBA record of 11 3-pointers and sink Bucks, 113-109
1990 – Spacecraft Galileo flies by Earth at an altitude of 597 miles (960 km) to use the planet’s gravity to build speed on its way to Jupiter
2004 – Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the Union of South American Nations
Historical Events for 7th December 2021
1836 – Martin Van Buren elected the 8th President of the United States
1940 – North Africa: British counter offensive under general O’Connor
1949 – Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1968 – Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati
1970 – West Germany and Poland normalize relations
1971 – An off duty member of the Ulster Defence Regiment is shot dead by members of the Irish Republican Army in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
1991 – A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1999 – The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
2017 – Ballon d’Or: Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo wins his 5th award to equal Lionel Messi’s record; 2nd consecutive win for Ronaldo
2020 – Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs to the Universal Music Publishing Group for over $300 million
Historical Events for 6th December 2021
1866 – Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1925 – Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
1938 – 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1939 – 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
1956 – Soviet gymnast Viktor Chukarin follows his parallel bars gold medal with the individual all-round title and teams gold at the Melbourne Olympics
1957 – Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
1992 – Davis Cup Tennis, Ft. Worth, Texas: Jim Courier defeats Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to give the US a 3-1 victory
1993 – Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
2010 – Record price for a printed book when a first edition of “The Birds of America” by John James Audubon auctioned at Sotheby’s, London, England, for £7,321,250
2014 – 23rd SEC Championship Game: #1 Alabama beats #14 Missouri, 42-13
Historical Events for 5th December 2021
1815 – Foundation of Maceió in Brazil.
1936 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Sarnia Imperials defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20 for their 2nd Championship
1950 – Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1955 – American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merge to form the AFL-CIO, with George Meany as President
1974 – Airport terminal roof in Tehran collapses killing 17
1984 – French colonies killed 10 Kanaken in New Caledonia
1990 – Iraq announces willingness to speak with US about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis
1991 – “Catskills on Broadway” opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 452 performances
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2017 – Netflix fires actor Danny Masterson from “The Ranch” after allegations of rape
Historical Events for 4th December 2021
1864 – Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek), Georgia
1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published
1949 – Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
1977 – NFL’s 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
1981 – “Falcon Crest” premieres on CBS-TV
1988 – Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers
1996 – 7th Billboard Music Awards: Alanis Morissette win
2011 – 100th Davis Cup: Spain beats Argentina in Seville (3-1)
2017 – New York’s Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct
Historical Events for 3rd December 2021
1910 – Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
1939 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 6th Symphony premieres
1949 – 14th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 14-13 in Birmingham
1956 – Britain and France pull troops out of Egypt
1964 – Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
1979 – Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
1985 – 7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for “Faerie Tale Theatre”
1988 – NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1995 – England cricket wicket-keeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
2007 – Devastating winter storms cause Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, closing 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days, resulting in at least eight deaths and billions of dollars of damage
Historical Events for 2nd December 2021
1620 – English language newspaper “Namloos” begins publishing in Amsterdam
1682 – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam following the failure of his plots to prevent a Catholic succession should King Charles II die
1804 – General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII
1907 – Association of Football Players’ and Trainers’ Union (English Professional Football Players’ Association) is formed by Charlie Roberts and Billy Meredith in Manchester, England
1959 – Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
1969 – Two years after doubling its size from six to 12, the NHL announces 2 new teams would be joining the League the following year; Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks
1987 – Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
1987 – “334” club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20″ of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 NHL victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
2018 – Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina
2018 – Israeli police recommend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife be charged with fraud and bribery
Historical Events for 1st December 2021
1924 – George and Ira Gershwin’s musical “Lady Be Good” premieres in NYC
1936 – 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
1938 – School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
1939 – SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
1944 – Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
1951 – Legendary Australian cricket fast bowler Ray Lindwall takes his 100th Test wicket when he bowls West Indian spinner Sonny Ramadhin in the 2nd Test in Sydney; Australia wins by 7 wickets
1962 – Classifications in minor league baseball are overhauled; Eastern and South Atlantic leagues are promoted from Class-A to Class-AA; classes B, C and D are abolished with those leagues being promoted to Class-A
1993 – Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
1994 – Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London
2018 – Syrian shadow puppetry added to UN list of cultural activities in urgent need of saving