December 01, 2016 : UN admits its peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 210that killed 30,000
December 01, 2016 : French President Francois Hollande announces he will not seek a 2nd term - 1st modernFrenchleader not to do so
December 01, 2016 : Former NFL player Joe McKnight is shot and killed during a road rage incident in Terrytown, Louisiana
December 01, 2016 : Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father KingBhumibol Adulyadej
December 01, 2014 : The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies, 3rd and final Hobbit film, directed by PeterJackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in London
December 01, 2012 : Ukranian Anna Ushenina wins the Women's World Chess Championship 2012
December 01, 2012 : Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico
December 01, 2012 : 8th ACC Championship Game: #13 Florida State beats Georgia Tech, 21-15
December 01, 2012 : 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
December 01, 2012 : 21st SEC Championship Game: #2 Alabama beats #3 Georgia, 32-28
December 01, 2008 : The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of EconomicResearch announces today
December 01, 2007 : T. C. Williams High School’s newly constructed basketball court is named after Earl Lloyd
December 01, 2007 : 3rd ACC Championship Game: #6 Virginia Tech beats #12 Boston College, 30-16
December 01, 2007 : 16th SEC Championship Game: #5 LSU beats #14 Tennessee, 21-14
December 01, 2007 : 12th Big 12 Championship Game: #9 Oklahoma beats #1 Missouri, 38-17
December 01, 2003 : The Return of the King, 3rd and final film in the Lord of the Rings series, directedbyPeter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in Wellington, New Zealand
December 01, 2002 : 91st Davis Cup: Russia beats France in Paris (3-2)
December 01, 2001 : Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. LouisInternational Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
December 01, 1999 : Rapper Jay-Z stabs record executive Lance "Un" Rivera at a night club in New York
December 01, 1998 : Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, creating Exxon-Mobil, the world'slargest company.
December 01, 1997 : Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS
December 01, 1997 : Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport IA on KORB 93.5 FM
December 01, 1997 : GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo
December 01, 1996 : Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India
December 01, 1996 : 85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2)
December 01, 1994 : Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London
December 01, 1994 : PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
December 01, 1994 : Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
December 01, 1994 : 3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident
December 01, 1993 : Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
December 01, 1992 : Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
December 01, 1992 : 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
December 01, 1991 : US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
December 01, 1991 : Ukrainian people vote for independence
December 01, 1991 : Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
December 01, 1991 : Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
December 01, 1991 : 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1)
December 01, 1991 : Once on this Island closes at Booth Theater NYC after 469 performances
December 01, 1991 : Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin closes at Gershwin NYC after 32 performances
December 01, 1990 : NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
December 01, 1990 : Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
December 01, 1990 : Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
December 01, 1990 : Hissène Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
December 01, 1990 : British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
December 01, 1990 : 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
December 01, 1990 : 55th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 16-7 in Birmingham
December 01, 1989 : USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
December 01, 1989 : Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
December 01, 1989 : East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
December 01, 1989 : Day Without Art - Artists demonstrate against AIDS
December 01, 1988 : NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
December 01, 1988 : NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
December 01, 1988 : Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
December 01, 1988 : Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
December 01, 1988 : 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
December 01, 1987 : Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
December 01, 1986 : Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
December 01, 1986 : Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
December 01, 1985 : TV mini series "Anne of Green Gables", starring Megan Follows is first shown on CBS inCanada
December 01, 1985 : STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
December 01, 1985 : South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms
December 01, 1985 : Noraly Beyer becomes Neth's 1st black TV newscaster
December 01, 1984 : Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title
December 01, 1984 : France performs nuclear test
December 01, 1984 : 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
December 01, 1984 : 49th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 17-15 in Birmingham
December 01, 1984 : Beverly Hills Cop directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinholdpremieres in Los Angeles
December 01, 1983 : Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
December 01, 1982 : Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico
December 01, 1982 : Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
December 01, 1982 : Tootsie directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Langepremieresin Hollywood
December 01, 1982 : Thriller, 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album oftheYear 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
December 01, 1981 : Yugoslavian charter flight crashes into Mont San-Pietro in Corsica, 180 killed
December 01, 1980 : US Justice Dept sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
December 01, 1980 : Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
December 01, 1980 : 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
December 01, 1979 : 44th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 25-18 in Birmingham
December 01, 1978 : US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
December 01, 1978 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
December 01, 1978 : Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, v England at the Gabba
December 01, 1976 : Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
December 01, 1976 : Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
December 01, 1976 : Angola admitted to the UN
December 01, 1975 : US President Gerald Ford visits People's Republic of China
December 01, 1975 : Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization
December 01, 1974 : LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
December 01, 1974 : Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
December 01, 1974 : Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
December 01, 1973 : Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champ
December 01, 1973 : Jan Ferraris wins LPGA-Japan Golf Classic
December 01, 1973 : Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
December 01, 1973 : Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
December 01, 1973 : 38th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 35-0 in Birmingham
December 01, 1972 : Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
December 01, 1972 : 2 people killed and 127 injured when 2 car bombs explode in the centre of Dublin,Republic ofIreland
December 01, 1971 : John Lennon and Yoko Ono release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
December 01, 1971 : Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYCfor613performances
December 01, 1971 : Cubs release Ernie Banks & sign him as a coach
December 01, 1971 : Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian governmentpositions,forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
December 01, 1970 : NHL takes control of Pittsburgh Penguins
December 01, 1970 : Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
December 01, 1970 : Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's DemocraticRepublic of Yemen
December 01, 1969 : US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
December 01, 1969 : LAPD Police Chief Edward Davis announces warrants for the arrest of the Manson cult for murder
December 01, 1968 : Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
December 01, 1968 : Peggy Wilson wins LPGA Hollywood Lakes Golf Open
December 01, 1968 : Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate
December 01, 1968 : Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical premieres in NYC
December 01, 1968 : Promises Promises opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
December 01, 1967 : Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
December 01, 1967 : Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams
December 01, 1967 : Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
December 01, 1966 : Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado
December 01, 1966 : Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
December 01, 1965 : South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white
December 01, 1965 : Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
December 01, 1964 : Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
December 01, 1964 : Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros
December 01, 1963 : NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0
December 01, 1963 : Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
December 01, 1962 : KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
December 01, 1962 : Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
December 01, 1962 : 7th British Empire Games and Commonwealth Games close in Perth, Australia
December 01, 1962 : 27th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 38-0 in Birmingham, their fourth straight shutoutintheseries
December 01, 1961 : The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
December 01, 1960 : Paul McCartney and Pete Best arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany for accusationof attempted arson.
December 01, 1960 : Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
December 01, 1959 : The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
December 01, 1959 : 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
December 01, 1959 : 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
December 01, 1958 : Our Lady of Angels School fire kills 92 students & 3 nuns in Chicago, Illinois
December 01, 1958 : Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (National Day)
December 01, 1958 : Flower Drum Song opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances
December 01, 1957 : Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly and the Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show
December 01, 1956 : Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta resigns
December 01, 1956 : Frank Robinson (NL) & Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year
December 01, 1956 : Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0)
December 01, 1956 : 21st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 34-7 in Birmingham
December 01, 1956 : Candide opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
December 01, 1955 : Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seattoa whitepassenger in Montgomery, Alabama
December 01, 1954 : Yanks send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson,Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
December 01, 1954 : Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
December 01, 1953 : WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
December 01, 1953 : Walter Alston named Dodger manager
December 01, 1953 : WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
December 01, 1953 : Red Sox trade M McDermott & Tom Umphlett for Wash's Jackie Jensen
December 01, 1953 : Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe asthemagazine's 1st centerfold
December 01, 1952 : The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation
December 01, 1951 : Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
December 01, 1951 : Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London
December 01, 1951 : 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)
December 01, 1949 : WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
December 01, 1949 : WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
December 01, 1948 : Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
December 01, 1948 : Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine
December 01, 1947 : India cricket all out for 58 v Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2
December 01, 1947 : Don Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test v India at the Gabba
December 01, 1946 : Australia compile 645 v India at the Gabba (Bradman 187)
December 01, 1945 : CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg 35-0 at Toronto
December 01, 1944 : Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres
December 01, 1944 : Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
December 01, 1944 : Béla Bartòk's Concerto for orchestra, premieres
December 01, 1943 : FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
December 01, 1942 : The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for apost#NAME?r welfare state
December 01, 1942 : Gasoline rationed in US
December 01, 1941 : US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
December 01, 1941 : Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years
December 01, 1941 : Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
December 01, 1941 : British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
December 01, 1939 : SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
December 01, 1938 : School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
December 01, 1937 : Japan recognizes Franco government
December 01, 1936 : EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
December 01, 1936 : Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
December 01, 1936 : 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
December 01, 1935 : Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp
December 01, 1934 : Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, Stalin uses as excuse to begin the Great Purgeof1934-38
December 01, 1933 : Rudolf Hess & Ernest Rohm become ministers in Hitler government
December 01, 1931 : Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
December 01, 1930 : NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
December 01, 1929 : Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
December 01, 1928 : Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth
December 01, 1928 : CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina 30-0 at Hamilton
December 01, 1925 : Treaty of Locarno signed
December 01, 1924 : Plutarco Elías Calles becomes President of Mexico
December 01, 1924 : George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good" premieres in NYC
December 01, 1924 : La Révolution surréaliste publishes its first issue in Paris, edited by André Breton
December 01, 1923 : CFL Grey Cup: Queen's U beats Regina 54-0 at Toronto
December 01, 1922 : Polish state Chief Marshal Jozef Pilsudski resigns
December 01, 1922 : 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
December 01, 1921 : US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
December 01, 1921 : 1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
December 01, 1919 : Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
December 01, 1919 : AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
December 01, 1918 : Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
December 01, 1918 : Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
December 01, 1918 : Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown
December 01, 1917 : Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha, Nebraska
December 01, 1916 : There is virtual civil war in Greece as royalists fight Venizelist, and the Alliesdetermineon a Venizelist victory
December 01, 1915 : The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the EmbassyinWashington
December 01, 1913 : Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
December 01, 1913 : Flag of Greece officially raised at Firka Fortress, Chania Crete symbolising the unionofCrete and Greece.
December 01, 1913 : 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
December 01, 1909 : 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
December 01, 1909 : 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
December 01, 1906 : German Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 years for forgeryafterposing as Prussian officer
December 01, 1906 : Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris)
December 01, 1903 : The Great Train Robbery, the 1st Western film, released
December 01, 1900 : Portifiro Diaz is inaugurated for his 6th consecutive term as President of Mexico
December 01, 1900 : Exiled South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on thesame day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser
December 01, 1896 : 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)
December 01, 1887 : Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
December 01, 1887 : Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
December 01, 1884 : Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris,includes Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"
December 01, 1884 : American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off agang of 80Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.
December 01, 1878 : 1st White House telephone installed
December 01, 1868 : John D. Rockefeller begins anti oil war
December 01, 1864 : Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia
December 01, 1864 : Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
December 01, 1852 : Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
December 01, 1843 : 1st chartered mutual life insurance company opens
December 01, 1831 : Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
December 01, 1824 : US House of Representatives begins to decide outcome of election deadlock betweenJohnQuincyAdams and Andrew Jackson (Adams wins)
December 01, 1822 : Franz Liszt's (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran
December 01, 1822 : Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
December 01, 1821 : Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
December 01, 1783 : Jacques Charles and Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogenballoonin Paris
December 01, 1768 : The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
December 01, 1750 : First school in America to offer manual training courses opens in Maryland
December 01, 1742 : Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
December 01, 1708 : Great Alliance occupies Brussels
December 01, 1656 : Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
December 01, 1653 : An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to Londonin lessthan 90 minutes
December 01, 1641 : Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
December 01, 1640 : Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
December 01, 1626 : Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical gov of Jerusalem, driven out
December 01, 1566 : Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
December 01, 1420 : Henry V of England enters Paris.
December 01, 1167 : Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
December 01, 800 : Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
December 01, 772 : Pope Adrian I [Hadrian I] elected
December 01, 800 : Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
December 01, 772 : Pope Adrian I [Hadrian I] elected
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