1325 – Afonso IV succeeds Denis as King of Portugal
1862 – Romney Campaign: Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, West Virginia
1930 – French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers francium (Fr), the last naturally occurring element discovered
1955 – 20 year-old future world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson scores a 5th-round TKO of Willie Troy in a non-title super middleweight bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden
1968 – Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off
1973 – British Darts Organisation founded in North London
1995 – Limited run of Patrick Stewart’s one-man show “A Christmas Carol”, based on Charles Dickens’ novel, closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC, after 18 performances
2012 – Hot air balloon crashes in Carterton, New Zealand, killing 11