1620 – 102 Mayflower Pilgrims and about 30 crew land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts [NS, Dec 21]
1936 – Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson
1941 – NY Giants acquire future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Johnny Mize from Cardinals for 3 players and $50,000
1946 – UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1958 – Upper Volta (now Bourkina Faso) gains autonomy from France
1973 – West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia
1975 – US 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents
1990 – US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
2002 – Joe Sakic scores his 500th career goal at Vancouver
2017 – Saudi Arabia announces an end to its 35 year ban on cinemas
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 10th December 2019
1520 – Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant
1718 – Laurence Eusden is appointed British Poet Laureate under George I
1882 – Johannes Brahms’ “Gesang der Parzen” (Song of the Fates) premieres
1901 – First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
1933 – Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”
1939 – KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1945 – Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1956 – Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1986 – Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
2001 – 67th Heisman Trophy Award: Eric Crouch, Nebraska (QB)
Historical Events for 9th December 2019
1640 – Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
1894 – Roman Catholics win Parliamentary election in Belgium
1922 – 1st Australasian Championships Women’s Tennis, Sydney: Margaret Molesworth wins inaugural title; beats fellow Australian Esna Boyd 6-3, 10-8
1926 – USGA legalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1935 – Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1975 – Iraq completes nationalization by taking over the BP, CFP, and Shell shares of the Basrah Petroleum Company
1984 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 – NJ Devils organization announces that it will change its colors to black, red, and white for the 1992-93 season
1992 – Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
1993 – “My Fair Lady” opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances
Historical Events for 8th December 2019
1609 – Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan opens its reading room, second public library in Europe
1849 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Luisa Miller” premieres in Naples
1941 – London: Dutch government-in-exile declares war on Japan
1961 – Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1961 – Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
1961 – South Africa v NZ, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – Australian Open Men’s Tennis: Stefan Edberg wins 1st career Grand Slam singles title; beats defending champion and fellow Swede Mats Wilander 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
2001 – 10th SEC Championship Game: #21 LSU beats #2 Tennessee, 31-20
2018 – US President Donald Trump announces John Kelly will be stepping down as White House Chief of Staff at the end of the year
Historical Events for 7th December 2019
1889 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Gondoliers” premieres in London
1916 – David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British Prime Minister
1939 – Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame
1941 – Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps
1956 – Helen O’Connell joins Today Show panel
1959 – “Saratoga” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances
1973 – Orioles sell pitcher Eddie Watt to the Phillies
1980 – Senior PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Turnberry Isle CC: Arnold Palmer wins with a birdie on the 1st playoff hole against Paul Harney
2016 – 6.5 earthquake in Aceh province, Indonesia kills at least 97 people
2018 – Former Italy national football coach Cesare Prandelli is appointed manager of Serie A club Genoa CFC replacing Ivan Juric; first time in history all 20 Serie A managers are all Italian
Historical Events for 6th December 2019
1864 – Battle of Deveaux’s Neck, South Carolina
1941 – NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1963 – The Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1964 – President Antonio Segni of Italy resigns
1966 – Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium
1976 – War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
1977 – South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
1978 – Spain adopts constitution
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
2013 – Pope Francis gives his ascent to a proposal to create a permanent post on the Pontifical Commission on cases of sin and sexual abuse of minors
Historical Events for 5th December 2019
1832 – Andrew Jackson re-elected US President after defeating Henry Clay
1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1890 – Berlioz’ opera “Les Troyens” premieres in Karlsruhe
1935 – National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
1957 – William Inge’s “Dark at the Top of the Stairs” premieres in NYC
1974 – Airport terminal roof in Tehran collapses killing 17
1987 – Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76)
1993 – “Timon of Athens” closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
1996 – Portland’s Jermaine O’Neal at 18 becomes the youngest NBA player
1998 – 3rd Big 12 Championship Game: #10 Texas AandM beats #2 Kansas State, 36-33 (2 OT)
Historical Events for 4th December 2019
1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.
1655 – Middelburg, Netherlands forbids building of synagogue
1926 – CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Senators retain Championship with 10-7 win over U of Toronto Blues
1927 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow
1965 – Gemini 7 launched with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell
1974 – Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader in prison
1983 – NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
1990 – Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
1991 – Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo
Historical Events for 3rd December 2019
1818 – Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
1921 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win 2nd Championship; beat Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
1930 – Otto Ender forms Austrian government
1949 – KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
1971 – US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa’s jail term
1989 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
1994 – 3rd SEC Championship Game: #6 Florida beats #3 Alabama, 24-23
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere
2005 – 10th Big 12 Championship Game: #2 Texas beats Colorado, 70-3
2014 – Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
Historical Events for 2nd December 2019
1813 – Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
1933 – Fred Astaire’s 1st film, “Dancing Lady”, released
1957 – Pacific Coast League franchises forced to relocate when Dodgers and Giants confirm their move to California for 1958 MLB season; Hollywood Stars move from LA to Salt Lake City; LA Angels move to Spokane, and San Francisco Seals transfer to Phoenix
1961 – CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: A 6th title for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers; beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 21-14
1963 – First Dutch rocket launched, reaches height of 10 km
1963 – MLB Rules Committee bans oversized catcher’s mitts; rule effective only in 1965
1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
1980 – 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
1991 – Australia routs India by 10 wickets in the 1st cricket Test in Brisbane; first Test to be officiated by a match referee; former England captain MJK Smith does the honours
2013 – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”, 2nd film in the Hobbit series, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Los Angeles