- 772 Pope Adrian I [Hadrian I] elected
Charlemagne Judges Leo III
800 Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican
- 1167 Northern Italian towns form the Lombard League
Henry V Captures Paris
1420 Henry V of England enters Paris
- 1626 Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical governor of Jerusalem, driven out
- 1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule following a revolution by Portuguese nobility; the Portuguese Restoration War begins and lasts until 1668 with recognition by Spain of the country's independence
- 1641 Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
- 1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
- 1656 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III signs an alliance with King John II Casimir Vasa of Poland against Sweden
- 1708 Great Alliance occupies Brussels
- 1742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
- 1768 The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway (rediscovered 1974)
- 1783 Jacques Charles and Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris
- 1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
- 1822 Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
Franz Liszt's Debut
1822 Franz Liszt, aged 11, debuts as a pianist in Vienna
Tsar Nicholas I
1825 Tsar Nicholas I ascends the throne of the Russian Empire, Alexandra Feodorovna [Princess Charlotte of Prussia] becomes Empress consort
- 1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
- 1852 Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
- 1864 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee to Saltville, Virginia
- 1864 Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia
Heinz Noble & Company
1875 Henry John Heinz's first company, the Heinz Noble & Company, goes bankrupt in the aftermath of the Panic of 1873
- 1884 Deputy Sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys near Frisco, New Mexico, who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarty
Society of Independent Artists
1884 Society of Independent Artists holds its first exhibition in the Polychrome Pavilion in Paris, including Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"
- 1887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
- 1896 1st certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)
- 1900 Exiled South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on the same day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser
Porfirio Díaz's 6th Term
1900 Porfirio Díaz is inaugurated for his 6th consecutive term as President of Mexico
- 1903 First Western film "The Great Train Robbery" is released, starring Justus D. Barnes and G. M. Anderson
- 1906 German Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 years for forgery after posing as Prussian officer
- 1909 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
- 1909 First Christmas Club payment is made to Carlisle Trust Company of Pennsylvania
- 1912 Boston Braves MLB franchise owner James Gaffney buys the Allston Golf Club on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston with a plan to construct a ball park there; ground breaking for Braves Field starts on March 20, 1915
- 1913 First drive-up gasoline station opens in Pittsburgh
- 1913 Flag of Greece officially raised at Firka Fortress, Chania Crete symbolising the union of Crete and Greece
1913 Ford Motor Company institutes the world's first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
- 1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington
Liberals Fight the Royalists
1916 There is virtual civil war in Greece as royalists fight Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, the Allies ensure a Venizelist victory
- 1917 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha, Nebraska
- 1918 Danish parliament passes an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown
- 1918 Yugoslavia declares independence with a monarchy proclaimed in Belgrade
- 1919 AA Milne's comedy play "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
1st Female British MP
1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
- 1921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
La Révolution surréaliste
1924 "La Révolution surréaliste" publishes its first issue in Paris, edited by André Breton
- 1924 Boston Bruins beat fellow expansion team Montreal Maroons, 2-1 at Boston Arena; first NHL game to be played in the United States
- 1924 Plutarco Elías Calles becomes President of Mexico
- 1925 Peace Treaty of Locarno signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy
- 1928 National League President John Heydler first to propose a baseball rule change calling for a 10th man, or 'designated hitter', to bat in place of the pitcher; ironically, the NL vote in favour of proposal, but the American League turn it down
- 1928 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands
- 1929 The game of Bingo is invented by American toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe
- 1930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
- 1931 Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
Sergey Kirov Assassinated
1934 Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
- 1934 Toronto Maple Leafs beat St. Louis Eagles, 4-3 to set an NHL record for the most wins to start the season with 8; Leafs do it again 59 years later; won 10 in a row to start 1993-94 season
- 1935 Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp
- 1936 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
- 1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
- 1936 Ernest Brundin & Frank Lyon obtain US patent for hydroponic (soil-less) culture of plants
Japan Recognizes Franco's Regime
1937 Japan recognizes Spain's Franco government
- 1938 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
Deportation of Polish Jews Begins
1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
- 1940 Four sets of brothers play in one NHL game as the Chicago Blackhawks beat the NY Rangers 4-1: Lynn & Muzz Patrick and Neil & Mac Colville (Rangers); Max & Doug Bentley and Bob & Bill Carse (Chicago)
- 1941 British cruiser HMS Dorsetshire forces crew of German submarine supply ship MV Python to scuttle vessel in the South Atlantic 1,150 miles west of South Africa
- 1941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
- 1942 Gasoline rationed in US
Beveridge Report
1942 The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for a post-war welfare state
- 1942 With WWII travel restrictions in mind, MLB owners decide to restrict travel to a 3-trip schedule rather than customary 4; Spring training in 1943 limited to locations north of Potomac or Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi
- 1943 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
Bartòk's Concerto for Orchestra
1944 Béla Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra" premieres in Symphony Hall, Boston, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
- 1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
- 1948 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine
- 1948 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
- 1949 MLB announces attendance for the season is 20.2 million, down from 20.9 in 1948; New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians each finish with over 2.2 million, but the St. Louis Browns fall to 270,000
- 1949 WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1949 WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1951 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)
- 1951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
- 1952 The New York Daily News reports the first successful sex reassignment surgery
Playboy First Published
1953 Hugh Hefner publishes the first edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's first centerfold
- 1953 Red Sox trade for slugger Jackie Jensen, sending pitcher Mickey McDermott and outfielder Tom Umphlett to Washington; Jensen averages 25 HRs a year for his 7 seasons in Boston; AL RBI leader x 3, and American League MVP in 1958
- 1953 WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1953 WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
- 1954 NY Yankees and Baltimore Orioles complete largest trade in MLB history as 17 players, including Don Larsen, Gene Woodling, Bob Turley change teams; first phase of transaction began November 18 and concludes today after the MLB draft
Rosa Parks
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
- 1956 Algerian-born French long-distance runner Alain Mimoun wins the men's marathon in 2:25:00.0 at the Melbourne Olympics; first time runners follow painted line
- 1956 American Mildred McDaniel jumps world record 1.76m to win the women's high jump gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; Briton Thelma Hopkins and Russian Mariya Pisareva dead-heat for silver (1.67m)
- 1956 Australian women's 4 x 100m relay team of Norma Croker, Betty Cuthbert, Fleur Mellor and Shirley Strickland de la Hunty run world record 44.65 to win the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; Cuthbert's 3rd gold of the Games
- 1956 Frank Robinson (NL) and Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year
- 1956 Gert Fredriksson of Sweden wins his 3rd consecutive K-1 1,000m canoeing gold medal by 2.5s from Igor Pissarov of the Soviet Union at the Melbourne Olympics; also wins K-1 10,000m gold
- 1956 Hungarian boxer László Papp wins his 3rd straight Olympic gold medal when he beats future Hall of Famer José Torres representing the US on points in the light-middleweight final at the Melbourne Olympics
- 1956 In front of 100,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a US Army baseball team beats an Australian all-star team, 11–5 in an Olympic exhibition game; Sergeant Vance Sutton belts a grand slam for Army
- 1956 Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta resigns
US Defeats Soviet Union
1956 Led by future Basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, the US wins it's 4th consecutive Olympic gold medal with an 89-55 victory over the Soviet Union at the Melbourne Games
- 1956 Legendary Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets world record 1:02.0 to win the women's 100m freestyle at the Melbourne Olympics; first of Fraser's 3 consecutive gold medals in the event
The Girl Can't Help It
1956 Musical comedy film "The Girl Can't Help It" starring Jayne Mansfield with cameos by rock 'n' roll stars Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, and Gene Vincent premieres
- 1956 Romanian canoeist Leon Rotman wins the men's C-1,000m gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; claims the singles double after also winning the C-1 10,000m gold
- 1956 US men's 4 x 100m relay team of Thane Baker, Leamon King, Bobby Morrow and Ira Murchison sets world record 39.60s to win the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; Morrow's 3rd gold medal of the Games
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
1957 Seminal rock band Buddy Holly & The Crickets make their "Ed Sullivan Show" debut, performing "That'll Be The Day" and "Peggy Sue"; singer Sam Cooke also performs after getting bumped due to time constraints on November 3rd - he sings "You Send Me" and “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons” [1] [2]
- 1958 Central African Republic made autonomous member of the French Community (National Day)
- 1958 Liberty Records releases single "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" by David Seville and the Chipmunks; it becomes a #1 hit, and wins 3 Grammy Awards (Comedy Performance, Children's Recording, and Best Engineered),
- 1958 Our Lady of Angels School fire kills 92 students & 3 nuns in Chicago, Illinois
- 1959 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
- 1959 The first color photograph of Earth received from outer space
Beatles Arrested and Deported
1960 British rocker Paul McCartney and drummer Pete Best arrested and then deported from Hamburg, Germany accused of attempted arson
- 1961 The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in Western New Guinea
- 1962 Classifications in minor league baseball are overhauled; Eastern and South Atlantic leagues are promoted from Class-A to Class-AA; classes B, C and D are abolished with those leagues being promoted to Class-A
- 1962 KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1963 Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian union
- 1963 Wendell Scott wins the Grand National Series Jacksonville 200 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida, becoming the first black driver to win a race at NASCAR's premier level
- 1964 After just 3 seasons in MLB the Houston Colt .45s change name of the team to Astros; owners say move signals a step into the future for the franchise and the city of Houston
- 1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US begins
- 1965 South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white
- 1966 Ecuadorian national baseball team defends its title with a 4-3 win over Brazil in the South American Championship; last win for next 50 years; Eloy Guerrero drives in Ramón Sotomayor with the winning run
- 1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
- 1966 Housing charity Shelter launches in Britain
- 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado
- 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland, to Fort Collins, Colorado
- 1967 Pacific Northwest Sports, Inc. is awarded one of the 2 American League baseball expansion franchises; new team named the Seattle Pilots
- 1967 Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scores 52 points in 76ers' 133-109 win over Seattle SuperSonics; sets NBA record for 22 free throw misses
- 1967 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams
Axis: Bold as Love
1967 Track Records releases the Jimi Hendrix Experience's second studio album "Axis: Bold as Love" in the UK, just seven months after their debut release
- 1968 Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate
- 1969 LAPD Police Chief Edward Davis announces warrants for the arrest of the Manson cult for murder
- 1969 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
- 1970 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
- 1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
- 1971 Chicago Cubs release longtime star and future Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, ending his 19-year MLB career; announce Banks will serve as a coach on manager Leo Durocher's staff; Banks finishes with 512 home runs and 1,636 RBI
Happy Xmas (War is Over)
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release the single "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in the US, becoming a Christmas classic despite its initial modest commercial success
- 1971 Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray
- 1972 2 people killed and 127 injured when 2 car bombs explode in the centre of Dublin, Ireland
- 1972 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
- 1973 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
- 1973 Jack Nicklaus finishes at 13-under-par 275 to win the Walt Disney World Open by 1 stroke over Mason Rudolph and becomes the first player to reach $2 million in PGA Tour career earnings
- 1974 American Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon 2:43:54.5 in Culver City, California
- 1974 Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville, Virginia, killing 92
- 1974 LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
- 1975 "The Robert MacNeil Report", later "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report", currently known as "PBS NewsHour" program premieres nationally in US on PBS
- 1975 Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization
President Ford Visits China
1975 US President Gerald Ford visits People's Republic of China
- 1976 Angola admitted to the UN
Ziaur Rahman Seizes Power
1976 Bangladeshi Army Chief of Staff Ziaur Rahman declares himself Chief Martial Law Administrator and de facto leader
Rotten Punks
1976 Punk rock band the Sex Pistols use profanity on TV, getting them branded as "rotten punks"
- 1978 Australian cricket fast bowler Rodney Hogg debuts in 1st Test v England in Brisbane; after Australia all out 116, Hogg makes instant impact by dismissing both high profile England openers Graham Gooch (2) and Geoff Boycott (13)
- 1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
National Parks Doubled
1978 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
- 1980 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
- 1980 Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
- 1980 US Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
- 1981 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Oscar Robertson (26,710) to become the NBA’s second all-time leading scorer behind Wilt Chamberlain; scores 14 points in 117-86 Lakers' win over Utah Jazz in Los Angeles
- 1981 Yugoslavian charter flight crashes into Mont San-Pietro in Corsica, 180 killed
- 1982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico
Beverly Hills Cop
1984 "Beverly Hills Cop" directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold premieres in Los Angeles
- 1984 American boxer Greg Page KOs home town favourite Gerrie Coetzee in 8th round to win WBA heavyweight title in Sun City, South Africa
- 1984 France performs nuclear test
- 1985 Noraly Beyer becomes the Netherland's 1st black TV newscaster
- 1985 South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms
- 1985 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1985 TV mini series "Anne of Green Gables" based on the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery, starring Megan Follows is first shown on CBS in Canada
- 1986 Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
- 1986 Paul McCartney releases single "Only Love Remains"
- 1987 Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
- 1988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1st Female Leader of a Muslim Country
1988 Benazir Bhutto is named Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first female leader of a Muslim country
- 1988 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
- 1988 First World AIDS day to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic
- 1988 NBC bids a record $401 million to capture television broadcasting rights for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games
- 1988 Roy Orbison gives his final concert at The Front Row Theater in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1989 "Day Without Art" - Artists demonstrate against AIDS
- 1989 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
- 1989 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
Nadia Comăneci Requests Asylum
1989 Romanian 5-time Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Nadia Comăneci arrives in NYC requesting political asylum to the United States; granted
- 1990 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
1990 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel 40 meters under the English Channel, achieving a major engineering feat and the long-held dream of linking Britain to Europe
- 1990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
- 1990 Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
- 1990 New York Knicks center Patrick Ewing scores career high 22 field goals in his 50 point haul in 113-96 win v Charlotte at Madison Square Garden
- 1991 92% of Ukrainians vote for independence from the Soviet Union
- 1991 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
- 1991 Miami quarterback Dan Marino sets an NFL record when he reaches 3,000 yards passing for the 8th time in his career during Dolphin's 33-14 win over Tampa Bay at Joe Robbie Stadium
Most Money Won on a Single Hole
1991 Reigning US Open champion Payne Stewart wins only 1 hole, but claims the Skins Game at La Quinta and sets record in the process; 3-foot birdie putt at 14th hole earns 8 skins worth $260,000; record for most money won on 1 hole
- 1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
Amy Fisher Sentenced
1992 Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
- 1992 Two C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana and crash, resulting in 13 deaths
- 1993 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minnesota, killing 18 people
- 1993 St Louis Blues' Bob Berry coaches his 800th career NHL game, a 4-2 loss to the Maple Leafs in Toronto; also coached LA Kings, Montreal Canadiens & Pittsburgh Penguins
- 1994 Ernesto Zedillo is inaugurated as president of Mexico
Jim Bakker Released
1994 Jim Bakker, American televangelist and convicted fraud is released from jail
19th-Century Auction Record
1994 Manuscript by Robert Schumann of his 2nd Symphony sells for $2.3 million at auction in London, setting a record for any 19th-century work
- 1994 Rapper Tupac Shakur convicted on sexual assault charge, and later sentenced to up to 4 1/2 years in prison
- 1996 South African cricket all-rounder Lance Klusener takes 8-64 on debut in Proteas' 329 run 2nd Test win v India in Kolkata
Gretzky Scores #3,000
1996 Wayne Gretzky becomes first and only player in NHL history to reach 3,000-point plateau (including playoffs); records an assist in NY Rangers' 6-2 win over Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden
- 1997 Golden State Warriors NBA guard Latrell Sprewell assaults head coach P.J. Carlesimo; suspended for 10 games
- 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport Iowaon KORB 93.5 FM
- 1997 In their 81st season, Montreal Canadiens become first team in history to play 5,000 NHL games; host the Penguins but lose, 1-0; franchise record 2,625-1,603-772 with .620 winning percentage
- 1997 Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS
- 1998 Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
- 1999 Rapper Jay-Z stabs record executive Lance "Un" Rivera at a night club in New York
- 2001 Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
- 2001 Nicaraguan baseball team wins the Central American Games; Ramon Padilla ends 15 year stint with the national team with 2 homers in the 9-0 finale against Guatemala
The Color Purple
2005 Musical "The Color Purple" based on the book by Alice Walker opens on Broadway produced by Oprah Whitney starring LaChanze (Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical)
- 2006 Canadian jockey Russell Baze becomes North American horse racing's all-time win leader when Butterfly Belle wins 4th race at Bay Meadows, San Mateo, California; 9,531 victories passes record of Laffit Pincay Jr
- 2007 T. C. Williams High School’s newly constructed basketball court is named after Earl Lloyd
- 2008 The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research announces today
2009 Ballon d'Or: FC Barcelona forward Lionel Messi is named best football player in the world; wins award by a then record margin, 240 points ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid with Barcelona midfielder Xavi 3rd
- 2012 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
- 2012 Ex-England soccer captain David Beckham leaves LA Galaxy triumphantly with a second MLS Cup winner's medal after a 3-1 win over Houston Dynamo in Carson, CA; final game of a 6-year stint in US
- 2012 FC Barcelona with 13 wins and a draw sets new La Liga start to Spanish football season record; Lionel Messi scores twice in 5-1 win over Athletic Bilbao; pass Real Madrid's 1991-92 season mark
- 2012 Ukrainian Anna Ushenina beats Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria, 3½-2½ in 2 rapid tie breaks to win the World Women's Chess Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
- 2014 "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies", 3rd and final Hobbit film, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in London
- 2014 "U2 Minus 1" performs at Times Square, NYC for World AIDS Day; Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin of Coldplay each sing two songs in place of injured frontman Bono
- 2014 Thierry Henry leaves the New York Red Bulls after four-and-a-half years at the club
- 2014 Utility Claudio Liverziani becomes first 3-time MVP in the Italian Baseball League; 291/.444/.472 season, with 30 HRs and 20 RBI in 38 games for Fortitudo Bologna
- 2015 After finishing the season with the largest payroll in MLB history at $298.3 million, the Los Angeles Dodgers are assigned the largest luxury tax bill ever, $43.7 million
- 2015 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan found the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with a view to "advancing human potential and promoting equality"
- 2015 In the largest deal ever for a MLB pitcher, Boston Red Sox land one of the biggest catches of the off-season, signing free agent David Price for 7 years and $217 million
- 2016 Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Hollande Declines Second Term
2016 French President Francois Hollande announces he will not seek a second term, the first modern French leader not to do so
Yahya Jammeh's Rule Ends
2016 Gambia presidential election: dictator Yahya Jammeh is defeated by Adama Barrow after 22 years in power
- 2016 Joel Embiid is named Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month for NBA games played in October and November
- 2016 UN admits its peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010 that killed 30,000
Thank U Next
2018 Ariana Grande releases the music video to her single "Thank U, Next," the biggest YouTube premiere with over 829,000 simultaneous viewers and the fastest music video to reach 55.4 million views in its first 24 hours
Wilder vs. Fury
2018 British boxer Tyson Fury dominates much of the fight but survives 2 knockdowns to force a split decision draw with defending WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder at the Staples Center, Los Angeles
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 Computer-animated film "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" starring Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Award Best Animated Film 2019)
- 2018 Syrian shadow puppetry is added to UN's list of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of safeguarding
- 2018 Violent demonstrations in Paris, France, by yellow-vest movement with 36,000 protesting nationwide
- 2018 World's first super-high definition 8K television channel by Japanese broadcaster NHK launches
- 2019 A newly developed apple that can last a year, the Cosmic Crisp, goes on sale in the US in Washington State
- 2019 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi GP to claim his 6th F1 World Drivers C'ship by 87 points from teammate Valtteri Bottas; Mercedes' 6th straight Constructors title
- 2019 Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan, China
- 2019 Iraqi parliament approves resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi after weeks of unrest and 400 deaths
- 2020 Actor Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page, reveals he is transgender
- 2020 Chinese robotic spacecraft Chang’e-5 lands on the Moon as part of two-day mission to retrieve rock samples
Spotify's Most Streamed
2020 Spotify's most streamed artist of 2020 is Bad Bunny, and its most streamed song is "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd
- 2021 Tel Aviv named the world's most expensive city for the first time ahead of Singapore and Paris, with Damascus the cheapest [1]
- 2021 Turner Art Prize awarded to activist group Array Collective for installation including mock Irish pub - first Northern Irish artists to win [1]
- 2023 US House of Representatives votes 311-114 to expel indicted member George Santos (R-New York), after the House Ethics Committee issued a report concluding that he “sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit" [1]
Biden Pardons Hunter
2024 US President Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden, reversing an earlier decision [1]
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