870 – Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1670 – France and England sign Boyne-treaty
1910 – US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
1941 – Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
1972 – AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-7
1974 – Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1988 – Pittsburgh NHL center Mario Lemieux accounts for all his team’s goals in Penguins 8-6 win over the NJ Devils; famously scores 5 goals, each in a different way: even strength, power play, shorthanded, penalty shot and empty net; also 3 assists
1995 – 62nd Sugar Bowl: #13 Virginia Tech beats #9 Texas, 28-10
2017 – Indian movie star Rajinikanth announces he is entering politics
2018 – Houston guard James Harden scores 43 points in Rockets’ 113-101 win over Memphis Grizzlies; 4th straight NBA game with 40+ points and 8th straight with 35+; joins Oscar Robertson as only player with at least 35 points and 5 assists in 8 straight games
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th December 2019
1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River
1854 – Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
1861 – US banks stops payments in gold
1913 – Barnes takes 17 wickets vs South Africa (8-56 and 9-103)
1935 – Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1939 – “Of Mice and Men”, starring Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released
1968 – Frank Sinatra first records “My Way” with lyrics were written by Paul Anka and based on the French song “Comme d’habitude”
1977 – Carter holds 1st news conference by US President in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
1992 – Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies
2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
Historical Events for 29th December 2019
1539 – St Jacob’s Church burns after being hit by lightning
1705 – Prosper Jolyot’s “Idomenée,” premieres in Paris
1841 – King and Grand Duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
1926 – Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras’ work on the index
1934 – Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Yerma” premieres in Madrid
1937 – Constitution of Ireland (Irish: Bunreacht na hÉireann) is enacted and Irish free state is named Eire
1962 – British driver Graham Hill wins the South African Grand Prix at Prince George Circuit in a BRM; takes out his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Scotsman Jim Clark
1982 – Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1991 – 12th United Negro College Fund
Historical Events for 28th December 2019
418 – St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson)
1905 – NSW all out for 805 vs Victoria, win by innings and 253
1942 – Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
1958 – Chipmunks (Alvin, Simon and Theodore with David Seville) hits #1
1970 – “Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen” opens at Majestic NYC for 19 performances
1972 – Martin Bormann’s skeleton is found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy)
1973 – Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes “Gulag Archipelago” – a literary investigation of the police-state system in the Soviet Union
1981 – Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Historical Events for 27th December 2019
795 – Leo III begins his reign as Pope after his election the previous day
1862 – Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
1924 – Albania is declared a dictatorship under Ahmed Beg Zofu
1945 – Arthur Laurent’s “Home of the Brave” premieres in NYC
1945 – The World Bank was created with the signing of an agreement by 28 nations.
1947 – 1st “Howdy Doody Show” (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
1951 – 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)
1954 – “Saint of Bleecker Street” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 92 performances
1961 – Belgium and Congo resume diplomatic relations
1979 – Soap Opera “Knots Landing” premieres on CBS-TV
Historical Events for 26th December 2019
1825 – Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December]
1848 – 1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to San Francisco
1902 – Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42)
1918 – After spending Christmas with American troops in France, Wilson goes to London for preliminary discussions about the forthcoming peace conference
1941 – Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would “stop at nothing”
1963 – “Double Dublin” opens at Little Theater NYC for 4 performances
1973 – Horror film “The Exorcist” based on book and screenplay by William Peter Blatty, starring Linda Blair, rated X, premieres – 1st horror film to be nominated for Best Picture
1988 – Anti African student rebellion in Nanjing, China
1988 – “Legs Diamond” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances
1990 – Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
Historical Events for 25th December 2019
979 – Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom
1769 – First Christian service in New Zealand; Mass is celebrated in Doubtless Bay by Father Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix of the de Surville expedition
1814 – Reverend Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society holds the first Christian service in New Zealand on land, at Rangihoua
1896 – “Stars and Stripes Forever” written by John Philip Sousa
1930 – Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
1940 – Bradman out 1st ball for South Australia v Victoria before 6213
1968 – Frank Borman’s Christmas reading while orbiting the Moon
1973 – Arab oil ministers cancel January 5 percent production cut; Saudi Arabian oil minister promises 10 percent OPEC production rise
1976 – 6th Fiesta Bowl: #8 Oklahoma beats Wyoming, 41-7
2012 – 8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines
Historical Events for 24th December 2019
1651 – Jan van Riebeeck departs for Cape of Good Hope to found 1st permanent European settlement
1814 – Treaty of Ghent signed, ending the War of 1812 between the United States, the United Kingdom and their allies
1818 – Christmas carol “Silent Night” composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria
1849 – First great fire of early San Francisco starts east side of the Plaza, first of great seven fires in 2 years
1927 – Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 and took 5-36 v S Af
1943 – Terence Rattigan’s “While the Sun Shines” premieres in London
1951 – 1st televised opera (Amahl and Night Visitor)
1984 – Palace coup in Mauritania
1989 – Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1999 – Opening of St Peter’s Holy Door by Pope John Paul II in approach of 3rd millennium
Historical Events for 23rd December 2019
1823 – “Visit from St Nicholas” by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
1862 – Union General Ben “Beast” Butler is proclaimed a “felon, outlaw and common enemy of mankind” by Jefferson Davis
1893 – Opera “Hansel und Gretel” by Engelbert Humperdinck and his sister Adelheid Wette premieres in Weimar, conducted by Richard Strauss
1919 – Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
1922 – BBC Radio began daily newscasts
1928 – NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast radio network
1962 – Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
1968 – 1st US case of space motion sickness
1973 – 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
2003 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
Historical Events for 22nd December 2019
1465 – Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Liège
1688 – Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1851 – The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
1940 – World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.
1946 – Cleveland Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1947 – Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1958 – 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1962 – 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1985 – 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1996 – Steelers’ Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD