1843 – Henry Cole, founder of London’s VandA Museum, commissions printing of the 1st Christmas card
1933 – Spain’s 2nd government of Lerroux forms
1935 – 1st flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) airplane.
1964 – “Goldfinger”, 3rd James Bond film, starring Sean Connery and Honor Blackman premieres in London
1979 – Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
1993 – Muslims in Bangladesh call for the murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
2003 – SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight
2012 – Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world’s oldest verified man at 116 years old
2013 – Australia wins the 3rd test to take win the 2013-14 Ashes test cricket series
2017 – “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” takes more than $450m worldwide in its opening weekend, 2nd largest opening in North America ($220m)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 16th December 2019
1538 – King Francois I orders renewed pursuit of Protestants
1767 – Van Ritter von Glucks opera “Alceste” premieres
1912 – 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
1913 – Charlie Chaplin begins his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
1944 – Nazi Germany launches a counteroffensive against the Allies in the Ardennes region of Belgium, beginning the ‘Battle of the Bulge’
1950 – “Let’s Make an Opera” closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 5 performances
1966 – The Beatles release “Everywhere it’s Christmas” in UK
1969 – British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty
1974 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 – QB Roger Staubach’s last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys
Historical Events for 15th December 2019
1124 – Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
1167 – Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
1688 – Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]
1926 – Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
1929 – Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer is the first to fly over Mt. Kilimanjaro
1962 – Vaughn Meader’s “1st Family” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 weeks
1974 – A’s Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
2002 – 68th Heisman Trophy Award: Carson Palmer, USC (QB)
2009 – Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
2015 – Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a criminal investigation
Historical Events for 14th December 2019
1575 – Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland
1812 – The French invasion of Russia, led by Napoleon, officially ends with the French having lost as many as 530,000 people
1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company
1946 – “Three to Make Ready” closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 performances
1958 – Pat Summerall kicks game winning field goal for the New York Giants against the Cleveland Browns at Yankee Stadium
1960 – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) forms
1968 – Bobby Orr scores first career hat trick (vs Chicago Blackhawks)
1969 – Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta
1984 – Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football
1997 – Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals
Historical Events for 13th December 2019
1864 – War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguay officially declares war on Brazil, invades the next day
1941 – German occupiers forbid National Front and Netherland Union
1947 – “Caribbean Carnival” closes at International NYC after 11 performances
1949 – Knesset votes to transfer Israel’s capital to Jerusalem
1957 – “Peyton Place” film based on the novel by Grace Metalious, directed by Mark Robson and starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange is released
1985 – Australian cricketer David Boon’s 1st Test century, 123 v India at Adelaide
1991 – NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1992 – FCC fines Infinity Broadcasting $600,000
1993 – Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
2018 – Actress Eliza Dushku revealed received $9.5 million settlement from CBS after sexual harassment on set of “Bull” from actor Michael Weatherley
Historical Events for 12th December 2019
1899 – George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee
1915 – 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau, Germany
1917 – Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Nebraska
1937 – NBC and RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
1946 – Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38
1964 – Cleveland Browns’ Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes
1975 – Sara Jane Moore pleds guilty to trying to kill US President Gerald Ford
1982 – $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NYC
1988 – “Rainman” directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise premieres in New York (Best Picture 1989)
1990 – US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
Historical Events for 11th December 2019
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
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