1854 – Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” is published in “The Examiner”
1899 – Boer War: During Siege of Ladysmith, Boers storm King’s Post and Caesar’s Camp – driven back
1907 – Gustav Mahler departs Vienna for America
1951 – West German voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg
1968 – The Derry Citizen’s Action Committee (DCAC) calls for a halt to all marches and protests for a period of one month
1974 – Dow Jones index hits 570.01
1985 – SF 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 274 consecutive games with a reception in a 27-20 loss to LA Rams at Candlestick Park
1990 – Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
2006 – Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan abdicates the throne
2018 – Winter storm hits US south east killing three, leaving hundreds of thousands without power, cancelling over 1,000 flights
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 8th December 2023
1941 – US and Britain declare war on Japan, US enters World War II
1955 – Black Ealing comedy “The Ladykillers”, directed by Alexander Mackendrick and starring Alec Guinness is released in the UK
1961 – Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
1970 – Head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal William Conway publishes a pamphlet on the topic of segregation in education in Northern Ireland
1973 – Romanian tennis star Ilie Năstase wins his 3rd consecutive season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix title with a 6–3, 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 win over Dutchman Tom Okker in Boston, Massachusetts
1978 – Commencement of the 1st day/night World Series Cricket supertest at VFL Park, Melbourne
1982 – “Herman Van Veen: All of Him” opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 performances
1987 – US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1992 – Spacecraft Galileo makes its second and closest flyby of Earth at a minimum distance of 305 km for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter
2019 – Vienna State Opera stages its first show by a female composer in 150 years – Olga Neuwirth’s opera, “Orlando”
Historical Events for 7th December 2023
1876 – NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A’s expelled from NL for not completing sked
1889 – W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s comic opera “The Gondoliers” premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London
1941 – Adolf Hitler issues “Nacht und Nebel Erlass” (Night and Fog Directive), against anti-Nazi resistance fighters in occupied territories; targets sent to concentration camps and/or murdered
1968 – Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1972 – Apollo 17 launched, the final manned lunar landing mission where the crew takes the famous “blue marble” photo of the entire Earth
1988 – 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless
1991 – A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 – Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
2018 – Comedian Kevin Hart steps down as 2019 Oscars host after his history of homophobic statements is revealed
2020 – Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs to the Universal Music Publishing Group for over $300 million
Historical Events for 6th December 2023
1424 – Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
1756 – British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta, India
1866 – Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1875 – 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
1903 – Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
1925 – Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
1956 – Soviet gymnast Viktor Chukarin follows his parallel bars gold medal with the individual all-round title and teams gold at the Melbourne Olympics
1957 – Gardnar Mulloy becomes oldest American to win a Davis Cup tennis match at age 44 years, 14 days; teams with Vic Seixas to give US a match-clinching, 3-0 lead over the Philippines in the Inter Zone 1st round in Adelaide, Australia
1973 – NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington, D.C. (doesn’t happen)
2017 – Britain’s top Brexit negotiator David Davis admits there has been “no systematic impact assessment” on effects of Brexit
Historical Events for 5th December 2023
1590 – Niccolo Sfondrati chosen as Pope Gregory XIV
1741 – -6] Russian princess Elisabeth Petrovna grabs powers
1896 – Henrik Ibsen’s play “Kejsor og Galileer” (Emperor and Galilean) premieres in Leipzig
1949 – Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
1957 – William Inge’s “Dark at the Top of the Stairs” premieres in NYC
1960 – Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
1965 – Brunswick Records releases “My Generation”, the debut album of British rock group The Who, in the UK and Australia
1979 – Ireland premier Jack Lynch resigns
1983 – 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
2008 – Former NFL star O.J. Simpson is sentenced to 33 years in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery
Historical Events for 4th December 2023
1691 – Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II as Viceroy of Southern Netherlands
1914 – Walter Johnson accepts an advance from the Chicago Whales of the Federal League; Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1963 – Boston Bruins’ right wing Andy Hebenton sets a new NHL record by playing in his 581st consecutive game in 2-2 tie with Chicago Black Hawks; reaches 630 straight games
1964 – Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1965 – San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1974 – Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction (Baader–Meinhof Gang) leader Andreas Baader in prison
1977 – Neil Simon’s play “Chapter Two” opens in NYC
1981 – Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1987 – Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
2018 – First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil
Historical Events for 3rd December 2023
1586 – Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia
1929 – Boston Bruins beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1, the first win of an NHL record 14-game winning streak, and a 22-game home winning streak
1932 – Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
1946 – 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
1964 – Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
1967 – Final run of “20th Century Limited” famed NY-Chicago luxury train
1979 – Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
1983 – Musical “Marilyn: An American Fable”, loosely based on life of Marilyn Monroe, starring Alyson Reed and Scott Bakula, closes at Minskoff Theatre, NYC, after 17 performances
1995 – England cricket wicket keeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
2014 – Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
Historical Events for 2nd December 2023
1802 – Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands
1913 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s self titled tragedy “Vladimir Mayakovsky” premieres at Saint Petersburg’s Luna Park theatre
1929 – First skull of Peking man found in the caves of Zhoukoudian, 50 km outside of Peking, China. Later dated roughly 750,000 years old.
1939 – British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC
1954 – Taiwan (ROC) and US sign the Mutual Defense Treaty, preventing Mainland China (PRC) from taking Taiwan between 1955-1979
1975 – Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People’s Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1990 – First time 12 people in space at the same time
2014 – The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
2018 – Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina
2020 – The UK becomes the first western country to authorize a vaccine for COVID-19, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
Historical Events for 1st December 2023
1913 – Flag of Greece officially raised at Firka Fortress, Chania Crete symbolising the union of Crete and Greece
1928 – CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers win 3rd Cup with 30-0 shutout of Regina Roughriders
1973 – Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Cleveland, Ohio: Rod Laver and John Newcombe beat American pair Stan Smith and Erik van Dillen 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 to give Australia an unassailable 3-0 lead, (ends 5-0); 23rd Cup title for Australia
1990 – 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
1991 – US 75th manned space mission “STS 44” Atlantis 10 lands
1999 – Rapper Jay-Z stabs record executive Lance “Un” Rivera at a night club in New York
2012 – FC Barcelona with 13 wins and a draw sets new La Liga start to Spanish football season record; Lionel Messi scores twice in 5-1 win over Athletic Bilbao; pass Real Madrid’s 1991-92 season mark
2012 – Ex-England soccer captain David Beckham leaves LA Galaxy triumphantly with a second MLS Cup winner’s medal after a 3-1 win over Houston Dynamo in Carson, CA; final game of a 6-year stint in US
2016 – Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej
2016 – UN admits its peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010 that killed 30,000
Historical Events for 30th November 2023
1909 – British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George’s ‘People’s Budget’, which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act; intent to stop unelected house overruling will of the elected house.
1924 – 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1931 – His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1939 – Paul Osborn’s “Mornings at 7” premieres in NYC
1967 – Julie Nixon (daughter of former Vice-President Richard Nixon) and David Eisenhower (grandson of former President Dwight D, Eisenhower), announce their engagement
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – BBC bans Wings’ “Hi, Hi, Hi”
1997 – “Eugene Onegin” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
2019 – On the way to 36 in 2nd Test v Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman’s run-tally of 6,996 Test runs; becomes fastest batsman to 7000, in terms of innings (126)
2021 – 15 year old student shoots four death and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan