- 1867 Last day of the Julian calendar in Alaska
- 1869 A strong hurricane known as the Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Maritime Canada. Incredibly, British naval officer Stephen Martin Saxby predicts the storm 10 months earlier in December 1868 through astronomy.
Flyer III Flies a Circle
1905 Orville and Wilbur Wright make a circling flight on "Flyer III" of 24.2 miles (38.9 km) in 39 minutes and 23 seconds
- 1921 Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing as the New York Giants-New York Yankees Baseball World Series is broadcast for the first time over radio (WJZ & WGY); he is not at the game but in the studio reading updates received by telegraph
- 1931 First nonstop transpacific flight from Japan to Washington by Herndon and Pangborn
1st Televised White House Address
1947 Harry Truman delivers the first presidential address televised from the White House
Vice Squad Arrest Musicians
1955 Police vice squad officers raid dressing rooms during a concert intermission at Music Hall in Houston, Texas, and arrest musicians Illinois Jacquet and Dizzy Gillespie for playing dice games, and singer Ella Fitzgerald and her assistant for allowing it; the foursome is whisked to the police station, pays their fines, and returns to the venue to play the second set
- 1965 Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
- 1965 Dick McInnes from Henderson, Kentucky, stays aloft for almost 12 hours in a kite pulled by a speedboat along the Ohio River
- 1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 km/h at White Sands, New Mexico
- 1992 NY senator Alphonse D'Amato filibusters for 15 hours and 20 minutes
3-Point Line Shortened
1994 NBA shortens the 3-point distance to a uniform 22 feet in an attempt to help offensive players score more; Michael Jordan sets career highs in 3-point attempts and converted 3-point field goals, nearly doubling previous statistics
- 2018 Banksy work "Girl With Balloon" automatically shreds via a shredder hidden in its frame moments after being sold for 1 million pounds in London, renamed "Love is in the Bin"
- 2018 Record price at auction for a living female artist as Jenny Saville's self-portrait "Propped" sells for £9.5 million in London
- 2020 At least 14 million tonnes of plastic pieces are at the bottom of the ocean, 30 times more than on the surface, according to new research [1]
- 2021 Otis (bear 480), weighing more than 900 pounds, wins Alaska's Fat Bear Week for pre-hibernation weight gain for the fourth time
- 2021 Russia sends actor Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko to the International Space Station to make the first feature film in space
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