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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 1st December 2019
1783 – Jacques Charles and Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris
1887 – Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in “Study in Scarlet” by Arthur Conan Doyle
1903 – “The Great Train Robbery”, the 1st Western film, released
1912 – Boston Braves MLB franchise owner James Gaffney buys the Allston Golf Club on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston with a plan to construct a ball park there; ground breaking for Braves Field starts on March 20, 1915
1928 – CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers win 3rd Cup with 30-0 shutout of Regina Roughriders
1945 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win their 6th title with a 35-0 shutout of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1953 – WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
1982 – Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
1989 – USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
2016 – Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Historical Events for 30th November 2019
1782 – Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1915 – St John Ervine’s “John Ferguson” premieres in Dublin
1924 – National Football League Championship: Cleveland Bulldogs (7-1-1) [formerly Canton] win first past the post title
1942 – German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes and sinks off Yokohama
1955 – “Pipe Dream” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances
1956 – Jon Henricks swims world record 55.4 to win the men’s 100m at the Melbourne Olympics; rare Australian 1-2-3 with John Devitt and Gary Chapman taking the minor medals
1959 – Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1967 – Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1974 – Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
2014 – Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
Historical Events for 29th November 2019
1573 – Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1877 – US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
1961 – Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone
1962 – Great Britain and France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner
1965 – Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 – Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1969 – The Beatles’ “Come Together/Something” reaches #1
1997 – OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998
2001 – UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month period
2018 – Tens of thousands Indian farmers protest the agrarian crisis at parliament in Delhi
Historical Events for 28th November 2019
1569 – Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
1754 – Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert is elected to the French Academy of Sciences
1864 – Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser’s Raid, Ft Kelly)
1929 – Chicago fullback Ernie Nevers sets NFL record for most points scored in a single game with all 40 in the Cardinals’ 40–6 rout of Chicago Bears; Nevers has NFL record 6 touchdowns and 4 extra points
1956 – Shirley Strickland de la Hunty of Australia retains her 80m hurdles Olympic title in OR 10.7s beating German Gisela Birkemeyer by just 0.2s at the Melbourne Games
1974 – Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1993 – “Gray’s Anatomy” opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances
2010 – In a classic matchup, Roger Federer wins his 5th season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 victory over Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final in London, England
2016 – “Hamilton” sets new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway – $3.3 million
2017 – India’s Supreme Court rejects appeal to block global release of controversial film “Padmavati”