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)