1844 – Opera “Stradella” after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
1875 – Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
1879 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance” premieres
1913 – Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 and 9-103)
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
1952 – Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1963 – “Let’s Make A Deal,” debuts on NBC-TV
1990 – 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
1992 – Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney
1992 – Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 29th December 2020
1503 – Battle of Garigliano: Spanish army under General Cordoba defeats French forces
1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle
1851 – 1st American Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opened in Boston, Massachusetts
1862 – Bowling ball invented
1930 – Fred P. Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minnesota, to New Orleans
1933 – New York Yankees refuses to release Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds
1952 – 1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
1965 – CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
1972 – President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O Bradaigh is arrested and held under new legislation in Republic of Ireland
1979 – Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
Historical Events for 28th December 2020
1065 – Westminster Abbey in London consecrated
1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
1944 – Montreal right wing Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard becomes first player in NHL history to score 8 points in one game with 5 goals and 3 assists in the Canadiens’ 9-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings
1947 – National Football League Championship, Comiskey Park, Chicago: Chicago Cardinals beat Philadelphia Eagles, 28-21; Cardinals’ only title victory
1948 – The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami, Florida.
1958 – Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
1970 – “Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen” opens at Majestic NYC for 19 performances
1973 – US President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1993 – Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
1993 – John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time NJ Devils scorer (521 pts)
Historical Events for 27th December 2020
795 – Leo III begins his reign as Pope after his election the previous day
1521 – The “Zwickau Prophets” appear in Wittenberg
1741 – Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
1951 – 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)
1972 – New North Korean constitution comes into effect
1972 – LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
1974 – Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
1992 – “Les Miserables” opens at Ostregaswerks, Copenhagen
1992 – Harry Connick Jr is caught with 9mm gun in NY’s JFK airport
2013 – 29 people are killed after a bus plunged off the Huay Tong Bridge, Thailand
Historical Events for 26th December 2020
1809 – British invasionary troop leaves Vlissingen
1865 – James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
1917 – US Federal government took over operation of American railroads for duration of WW I
1918 – After spending Christmas with American troops in France, Wilson goes to London for preliminary discussions about the forthcoming peace conference
1962 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Katerina Ismailova” premieres in Moscow
1976 – The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
1977 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1991 – Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
2001 – Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) record one of their largest 1-day jumps of the year as traders become convinced that OPEC will follow through on production cuts
2005 – Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto.
Historical Events for 25th December 2020
1194 – Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI crowned King of Sicily in Palermo Cathedral
1760 – Jupiter Hammon, an African American slave, composes poetry broadside “An Evening Thought” (1st poetry published by an African American 1761)
1923 – Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St NYC
1928 – Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic v NSW) Australia is 14,887
1934 – Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 v Qld before 6,180
1938 – George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind”
1973 – Ballon d’Or: Ajax forward Johan Cruyff wins his second award for best European football player ahead of Juventus goalkeeper Dino Zoff and Bayern Munich striker Gerd Müller
1974 – Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff.
1979 – Ballon d’Or: Hamburg’s English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 2nd consecutive trophy as best football player in Europe; beats Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Ajax sweeper Ruud Krol
1997 – Jerry Seinfeld announces the final season of his TV show “Seinfeld” will air the following year
Historical Events for 24th December 2020
640 – John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1515 – Thomas Wolsey appointed Lord Chancellor of England
1893 – Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine
1953 – Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
1954 – Laos gains its independence
1954 – Council for the Protection of Children forms in Netherlands
1967 – Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
1986 – French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
1994 – Four Muslim fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers
2000 – The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery
Historical Events for 23rd December 2020
1862 – Union General Ben “Beast” Butler is proclaimed a “felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind” by Jefferson Davis
1888 – Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping
1922 – BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1930 – Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
1970 – French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia
1970 – A Protestant man is shot dead at his home in Belfast, North Ireland
1974 – “Good News” opens at St James Theater NYC for 16 performances
1991 – NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1997 – Ballon d’Or: Barcelona/Inter’s Brazilian striker Ronaldo wins his first of 2 best football player in Europe awards ahead of Real Madrid forward Predrag Mijatović and Juventus midfielder Zinedine Zidane
2003 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
Historical Events for 22nd December 2020
1772 – Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1885 – Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan
1936 – 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
1946 – Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1959 – NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1969 – Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1977 – 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1985 – 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1990 – Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games
2012 – 6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus
Historical Events for 21st December 2020
1650 – Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht
1894 – Mackenzie Bowell becomes the 5th Prime Minister of Canada
1909 – Unitversity of Copenhagen rejects American Explorer Frederick A Cook’s claim that he was 1st to North Pole
1946 – “If the Shoe Fits” closes at Century Theater NYC after 20 performances
1970 – WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
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
1984 – USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley’s Come
1995 – Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
2005 – Civil Partnership Act comes into force in the UK, with Elton John and David Furnish one of the first couples to form a same-sex civil union
2016 – Carl Icahn is announced as Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform, under President Donald Trump