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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 4th December 2020
1665 – Jean Racine’s “Alexandre le Grand” premieres in Paris
1836 – Whig party holds its first national convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1851 – President Louis Napoleon Boaparte’s forces crush an attempted coup d’etat in France
1864 – Romanian Jews are forbidden to practise law
1921 – The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle ends in a hung jury
1944 – Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1949 – Duncan Stewart, 2nd British Governor of Sarawak is fatally stabbed in the streets of Sibu by Malay student Rosli Dhoby with help from Morshidi Sidek with the goal of helping neighbouring Indonesia to take over British Sarawak
1991 – Muslim Shi’ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
1994 – 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
2013 – Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg’s first openly gay Prime Minister
Historical Events for 3rd December 2020
1639 – 1st annulment by court decree passes
1948 – Chinese refugee ship “Kiangya” explodes in East China Sea killing 1,100
1948 – Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 123 for the Bradman XI in his own testimonial match against the Lindsay Hassett’s XI in front of 52,360 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1962 – Edith Spurlock Sampson sworn-in as 1st US black female judge
1967 – Australian Derek Clayton runs world marathon record 2:09:36.4 at the Fukuoka Marathon in Japan
1968 – NBC Elvis comeback special airs
1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2005 – 14th SEC Championship Game: #13 Georgia beats #3 LSU, 34-14
2005 – 10th Big 12 Championship Game: #2 Texas beats Colorado, 70-3
2018 – Dutch court in Arnhem rejects man’s request to legally be recognised 20 years younger
Historical Events for 2nd December 2020
1409 – The University of Leipzig opens
1864 – Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
1948 – After one of the best seasons in baseball history, St Louis Cardinals utility Stan Musial is named NL MVP; leads NL in batting average (.365), runs (135), RBI (131), hits (230), doubles (46), triples (18) and slugging (.702), with 39 HRs
1951 – Philadelphia Eagles set NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing in 35-21 win over Washington Redskins at Griffith Stadium
1952 – 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
1957 – 1st US large scale nuclear power plant for peacetime use opens, Shippingport, Pennsylvania
1964 – Ringo Starr’s tonsils are removed
1967 – CFL Grey Cup, Landsdowne Park, Ottawa: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Saskatchewan Roughriders, 24-1; Alan Ford’s 87 yard punt, on a quick kick, is the longest in Grey Cup history
1968 – US President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
2020 – US Attorney General William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, despite claims by President Donald Trump
Historical Events for 1st December 2020
1922 – Polish state Chief Marshal Józef Piłsudski resigns
1953 – WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
1956 – Legendary Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets world record 1:02.0 to win the women’s 100m freestyle at the Melbourne Olympics; first of Fraser’s 3 consecutive gold medals in the event
1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusation of attempted arson.
1988 – Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
1989 – “Day Without Art” – Artists demonstrate against AIDS
2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA’s purchase by American Airlines.
2001 – Nicaraguan baseball team wins the Central American Games; Ramon Padilla ends 15 year stint with the national team with 2 homers in the 9-0 finale against Guatemala
2002 – Davis Cup Tennis, Paris: Mikhail Youzhny beats Paul-Henri Mathieu 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 to give Russia 3-2 win over France; only time in event history that a 2-set deficit turned around in a live 5th rubber of a Final
2018 – Ariana Grande releases the music video to her single “Thank U Next”, biggest ever launch on Youtube Premiere