1600 – Olivier van Noort sinks Spanish galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die
1862 – Battle of Kinston, fought in Lenoir County, North Carolina begins (Goldsboro Expedition), Union victory (US Civil War)
1941 – Japan and Thailand sign a treaty of alliance
1950 – Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), and Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner
1961 – Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John” is 1st country song to get a gold record
1971 – Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 – Louis Jordan’s revue “Five Guys Named Moe” premieres in London
1991 – Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in the Red Sea, 476 killed
1995 – Musical “Les Miserables” opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th December 2020
1621 – Emperor Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1732 – Prussia joins Austria and Russia in signing the Treaty of Berlin, a secret treaty regarding succession to the Polish throne
1901 – Test debut of English cricketer Sydney Barnes vs Australia at the SCG, took 5-65 in 1st innings
1947 – “Caribbean Carnival” closes at International NYC after 11 performances
1967 – San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours.
1977 – 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1978 – CBS’ premiere of “Lovey: A Circle of Children Part II”, sequel to “A Circle of Children”, which is also based on Mary Mac Cracken
1979 – Saudi Arabia raises marker crude price to $24 per barrel
1991 – NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
2014 – 80th Heisman Trophy Award: Marcus Mariota, Oregon (QB)
Historical Events for 12th December 2020
1878 – Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing “St Louis Dispatch”
1906 – Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish US government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce
1915 – 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
1966 – US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta
1971 – Romanian tennis star Ilie Năstase finishes ATP Masters Grand Prix with a perfect 6-0 record to win the rich season ending event at the Coubertin Stadium, Paris
1992 – Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
1997 – Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin
2006 – Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.
2011 – 77th Heisman Trophy Award: Robert Griffin III, Baylor (QB)
2018 – China built 88 out of world’s 143 skyscrapers in 2018 more than any country ever (buildings over 200 meters/656 ft)
Historical Events for 11th December 2020
359 – Honoratus, first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople, takes office.
1816 – Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
1878 – Anglo-Zulu War: British high commissioner Henry Bartle Frere presents an ultimatum to the Zulu Kingdom to submit to British rule or face war
1913 – “Mona Lisa” recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
1934 – Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball’s National League
1941 – Dutch government in London declares war on Italy
1945 – Het Parool publishes 1st Captain Rob-strip
1951 – Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball
1987 – Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
1993 – Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle elected President of Chile
Historical Events for 10th December 2020
1912 – Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Dalén for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys
1914 – French government returns to Paris
1919 – NY, Boston, and Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
1931 – Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1952 – Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1984 – South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize
1992 – NHL awards franchises to Miami and Anaheim for 1994-95
1994 – Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
1995 – Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9″ in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3″ in 1982
2016 – Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony he does not attend in Stockholm
Historical Events for 9th December 2020
536 – Byzantine General Belisarius enters Rome while the Ostrogothic garrison peacefully leaves the city, returning the old capital to its empire
1724 – Colley Cibber’s play “Caesar in Egypt” premieres in London
1905 – French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state
1961 – “From the Second City” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 87 performances
1980 – 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
1990 – 23rd NAACP Image Awards: “Coming to America” wins Outstanding Motion Picture
1992 – 3rd Billboard Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Ropin’ The Wind win
1992 – Operation Restore Hope: US Marines land in Somalia
2016 – Ghanaian Presidential election won by Nana Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party
Historical Events for 8th December 2020
1863 – Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South
1863 – 2,500 reported killed as result of fire at Jesuit Church of La Compana, Santiago, Chile
1875 – Aleksandr Ostrovsky’s “Volki i Ovsty” premieres in St Petersburg
1936 – Anastasio Somoza García elected President of Nicaragua
1952 – Isaak Ben-Zwi elected president of Israel
1956 – Guy Mitchell’s “Singing the Blues” single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1963 – Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with 81 killed
1972 – United Airlines crashes at Chicago’s Midway Airport killing 45
1977 – 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
1993 – Storm hits western Europe, 11 killed in England
Historical Events for 7th December 2020
1724 – Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1872 – HMS Challenger sets sail on 3½ year world oceanographic cruise
1924 – German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis and Communists lose)
1956 – American diver Pat McCormick wraps up the women’s double when she wins the 10m platform gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics with 84.85 points; also won the 3m springboard gold
1975 – Romanian tennis star Ilie Năstase wins his 4th season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix title with a 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 rout of Björn Borg of Sweden in Stockholm
1976 – UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General for second 5 year term
1983 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1995 – NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1996 – 1st Big 12 Championship Game: Texas beats #3 Nebraska, 37-27
Historical Events for 6th December 2020
1527 – Pope Clemens VII flees to Orvieto
1723 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI’s Pragmatic Sanction with the Diet of Hungary recognizes the King’s daughters as successors
1896 – D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura
1976 – War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1987 – 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for “fun”
1988 – Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown
1988 – STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
1990 – Saddam Hussein announces release of all foreign hostages
2003 – 8th Big 12 Championship Game: #13 Kansas State beats #1 Oklahoma, 35-7
2018 – Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry explodes for franchise-record 238 yards and 4 touchdowns in 30-9 win v Jacksonville Jaguars in Nashville; 99-yard TD run ties Dallas Cowboys HOF RB Tony Dorsett’s longest run in NFL history
Historical Events for 5th December 2020
1776 – First US fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa (William and Mary College), forms
1832 – Andrew Jackson re-elected US President after defeating Henry Clay
1941 – US aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor
1943 – NFL Philadelphia Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger dissolves
1964 – Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War for successfully repelling a large Viet Cong attack
1974 – Airport terminal roof in Tehran collapses killing 17
1975 – NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
1984 – A’s trade Rickey Henderson to Yankees for Jay Howell and Jose Rijo
1988 – Shuttle Atlantis launches world’s 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
2001 – “Ocean’s Eleven” directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts premieres in Westwood, California