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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 30th November 2021
306 – St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1813 – Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
1864 – Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead, 665 wounded
1900 – A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1902 – American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang Kid Curry Logan sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor
1931 – His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1938 – Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1972 – BBC bans Wings’ “Hi, Hi, Hi”
1988 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
2003 – 92nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Melbourne (3-1)