1. 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City - 1997
2. 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers - 1994
3. President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair - 1992
4. Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union - 1991
5. Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon and Barry Jones - 1990
6. Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target - 1990
7. Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe - 1989
8. Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy - 1989
9. French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released - 1986
10. Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab - 1986
11. Palace coup in Mauritania - 1984
12. Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic - 1982
13. Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa and Lisa Evers marry - 1981
14. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. - 1981
15. Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds - 1980
16. 1st Ariane-rocket launched - 1979
17. Cardinals' Lou Brock is named Sportsman of the Year - 1974
18. Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200 - 1973
19. Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later - 1971
20. 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane - 1970
21. Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released - 1970
22. Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis - 1968
23. WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1968
24. China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC - 1967
25. "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 12 performances - 1966
26. Luna 13 lands on Moon - 1966
27. USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 - 1966
28. Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek - 1964
29. Greek and Turks riot in Cyprus - 1963
30. U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. - 1962
31. Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game - 1961
32. Dutch bishops question papacy values - 1960
33. Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt - 1956
34. "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication - 1956
35. Council for the Children Protection forms in Neth - 1954
36. Laos gains its independence - 1954
37. 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia) - 1953
38. KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
39. KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
40. Rene Coty elected President of France - 1953
41. Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166 - 1953
42. 1st televised opera (Amahl and Night Visitor) - 1951
43. United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN - 1951
44. Cleveland Browns win NFL championship, beat LA 30-28 - 1950
45. 1st U.S. house completely sunheated is occupied (Dover Massachusetts) - 1948
46. Greek government disbands due to state of war, press censorship - 1948
47. 4th French republic established - 1946
48. US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor Nazi's" amnesty - 1946
49. Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints General Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces - 1943
50. Terence Rattigan's "While the Sun Shines," premieres in London - 1943
51. 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany - 1942
52. Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk - 1942
53. 1st ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan - 1941
54. Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia - 1937
55. 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, California - 1936
56. Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA vs. Queensland, 28 fours 1 six - 1935
57. National Council of Negro Women forms - 1935
58. Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430 - 1934
59. Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France) - 1933
60. Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile - 1932
61. Bandung, Java: ir Sukarno 4 years jail sentenced - 1930
62. F Garcia Lorca's "La Zapatera Prodigiosa," premieres in Madrid - 1930
63. George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) opens at 152 W 54th St. New York City - 1928
64. Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 and took 5-36 vs. S Af - 1927
65. 1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands - 1924
66. Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup) - 1924
67. Richard Rodgers Theater (46th St. Chanin's) opens at 226 W 46th New York City - 1924
68. School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die - 1924
69. BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas" - 1922
70. London Coloseum opens - 1922
71. Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City) - 1920
72. German plane drops bombs on Dover England - 1914
73. Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards - 1912
74. Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain - 1910
75. Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass) - 1906
76. German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children - 1904
77. Herman Heijermans' "Hope of Blessing" premieres in Amsterdam - 1900
78. Herman Heijermans' "Ghetto," premieres in Amsterdam - 1898
79. Scheveningse fishing boats destroyed by storm - 1894
80. Soccer team Achilles '94 forms in Axes - 1894
81. Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor - 1893
82. Daniel Stover and William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake - 1889
83. Austria-Hungary admits King Leopold II's Congo Free State - 1884
84. Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875 - 1874
85. Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening - 1871
86. Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn - 1865
87. Battle of Gordonsville, VA - 1864
88. Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in New York City - 1860
89. Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes - 1851
90. US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn - 1851
91. HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver - 1832
92. Franz Xaver Gruber composes "Silent Night" - 1818
93. "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day - 1818
94. Treaty of Ghent (end of US-Britain's War of 1812) signed - 1814
95. Jakobijns plot against Napoleon uncovered - 1799
96. Russia and England sign Second anti-French Coalition - 1798
97. Benjamin Franklin arrives in London - 1724
98. Swedish troops occupy Norway - 1715
99. John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope - 1651
100. Storm hits Texel: 40 ships hit, 500 killed - 1593
101. Uprising of Morisco's in Granada - 1568
102. Compromise of the Nobles closes against inquisition - 1565
103. Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor - 1515
104. 400 Burgundy soldiers freeze to death during siege of Nancy - 1476
105. Cardinal Benedetto Gaetani chosen as Pope Boniface VIII - 1294
106. Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected - 1046
107. John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope - 0640
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