- 0283 - St Gaius becomes Pope.
- 0384 - St Siricius becomes Pope.
- 0546 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome bribing the Byzantine garrison.
- 0942 - William Longsword dies. Ruler of Normandy
- 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra] dies. Italian Pope
- 1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut dies (b. 1150)
- 1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu was born (d. 1256). Japanese shogun.
- 1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan was born (d. 1324).
- 1273 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi dies (b. 1207). Persian poet and mystic.
- 1471 - Isabel of Portugal dies (b. 1397). Duchess of Burgundy.
- 1493 - Philippus A Paracelsus was born (d. 1754). Swiss alquimist and physician
- 1531 - Installation de l'Inquisition à Lisbonne par le pape Clément VII
- 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England
- 1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine was born (d. 1682). Royalist commander in the English Civil War
- 1632 - Anthony Wood was born (d. 1695). English antiquarian
- 1637 - The Shimabara Rebellion breaks out in Japan.
- 1663 - Dona Ana de Souza, Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Angola) dies (b. 1583).
- 1685 - Thomas Tickell was born (d. 1740). English writer.
- 1706 - Émilie du Châtelet was born (d. 1749). French mathematician and physicist.
- 1718 - England declared war on Spain.
- 1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough dies (b. 1640). English statesman.
- 1734 - Maria I of Portugal was born (d. 1816). Portuguese queen.
- 1749 - Domenico Cimarosa was born (d. 1801). Italian composer.
- 1763 - Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony dies (b. 1722)
- 1770 - Johann Friedrich Schubert was born. Composer.
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven is baptized (d. 1827). German Composer.
- 1777 - France recognized American independence.
- 1778 - Humphry Davy was born (d. 1829). English chemist.
- 1787 - Jan Evangelista Purkyne was born (d. 1869). Czech anatomist.
- 1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
- 1797 - Joseph Henry, was born ; US, Scientist / inventor / pioneer of electromagnetism .
- 1799 - Titian Peale was born (d. 1885). American artist.
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier was born [d. 1892]. American Poet and abolicionist. Whittier was a pioneer in regional literature as well as a crusader for many humanitarian causes.
- 1812 - Kaspar Hauser dies (b. 1812). German foundling.
- 1830 - Simon Bolivar died in Santa Marta [b. 1783]; General and Venezuelan statesman, first President of Colombia.
- 1830 - Jules de Goncourt was born (d. 1870). French publisher.
- 1833 - Kaspar Hauser dies (b. 1812). German foundling.
- 1843 - A Christmas Carol a fictional short story by Charles Dickens is published.
- 1847 - Émile Faguet was born (d. 1916). French writer and critic.
- 1853 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree was born (d. 1917). English actor
- 1853 - Emile Roux was born (d. 1933). French physician.
- 1859 - Paul César Helleu was born (d. 1927). French artist.
- 1862 - General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1872 - Mistinguett was born (d. 1956). French actress and singer.
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford was born (d. 1939). English writer.
- 1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King was born (d. 1950). Tenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1876 - Júlio Afrânio Peixoto was born (to some sources 14 Dec). Brazilian writer (A esfinge)
- 1883 - Raimu was born (d. 1946). French actor.
- 1887 - Josef Lada was born (d. 1957). Czech painter.
- 1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was born (d. 1934)
- 1892 - Sam Barry was born (d. 1950). American basketball coach.
- 1893 - Erwin Piscator was born (d. 1966). German film director.
- 1894 - Arthur Fiedler was born (d. 1979). American conductor.
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet dies. French writer.
- 1900 - Mary Cartwright was born (d. 1998). English mathematician.
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg was born (d. 1982). Austrian-born actor and director.
- 1903 - Erskine Caldwell was born (d. 1987). American author.
- 1903 - Ray Noble was born (d. 1978). English musician.
- 1903 - Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
- 1905 - Érico Veríssimo was born. Brazilian writer.
- 1905 - Simo Häyhä was born (d. 2002). Finnish sniper.
- 1906 - Fernando Lopes Graça was born in Tomar. Portuguese composer and musicologist.
- 1907 - Independence of Bhutan
- 1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin dies (b. 1824). Irish-born physicist.
- 1908 - Willard Frank Libby was born (d. 1980). American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1909 - King Leopold II of Belgium dies (b. 1835)
- 1910 - Sy Oliver was born (d. 1988). American jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer and bandleader.
- 1915 - André Claveau was born (d. 2003). French singer.
- 1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald was born (d. 2000). English writer.
- 1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson dies (b. 1836). English physician.
- 1917 - Frank Gotch dies (b. 1878). Wrestler.
- 1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson was born. Canadian computer scientist
- 1922 - Alan Voorhees was born (d. 2005). American engineer and urban planner.
- 1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan was born. American historian
- 1925 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes abandona definitivamente Portugal.Depois de ser eleito presidente, o seu mandato foi marcado por grande instabilidade política e social, conduzindo à sua resignação em 11 de Dezembro de 1925. Em 17 de Dezembro, embarca no paquete grego "Zeus". Nunca mais regressará a Portugal.
- 1925 - Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact.
- 1926 - Ray Jablonski was born (d. 1985). Baseball player.
- 1927 - Richard Long was born (d. 1974). American actor.
- 1929 - Manuel Gomes da Costa dies. President of Portuguese Republic in 1926.
- 1929 - Jacqueline Hill was born (d. 1993). British actress
- 1929 - William Safire was born. American columnist
- 1930 - Bob Mathias was born. American athlete
- 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl was born. German actor
- 1930 - Bob Guccione was born. Publisher of Penthouse magazine.
- 1933 - Thubten Gyatso dies (b. 1876). 13th Dalai Lama
- 1934 - Ray Wilson was born. English football player
- 1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
- 1936 - Tommy Steele was born. British singer and actor
- 1937 - Kerry Packer was born (d. 2005). Australian businessman.
- 1937 - John Kennedy Toole was born (d. 1969). American novelist.
- 1937 - Jaime Lerner was born. Brazilian architect and urbanist.
- 1938 - Peter Snell was born. New-Zealand athlet.
- 1939 - the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee "Graf Spee" was scuttled by its crew, ending the World War II Battle of the River Plate off Uruguay.
- 1939 - Eddie Kendricks was born (d. 1992). American singer (The Temptations)
- 1940 - Kåre Valebrokk was born. Norwegian journalist.
- 1940 - Alicia Boole Stott dies (b. 1860). Irish mathematician.
- 1941 - Nazi siege of Sevastopol begins.
- 1941 - Dutch & Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor.
- 1941 - Gene Clark was born (d. 1991). American musician.
- 1942 - Paul Butterfield was born (d. 1987). American musician.
- 1943 - Ron Geesin was born. Scottish musician
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton was born. American model and actress
- 1944 -The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing "evacuees" to return home.
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - Malmedy massacre - American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
- 1944 - Ference Bene was born. Hungarian football player. Record twelve goals (Olympic Gold-1964).
- 1944 - Jack L. Chalker was born. American novelist.
- 1944 - Bernard Hill was born. British actor.
- 1945 - Honduras becomes member of United Nations
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes was born. American basketball player
- 1945 - Ernie Hudson was born. American actor.
- 1945 - Jacqueline Wilson was born. British author
- 1946 - Eugene Levy was born. Canadian actor
- 1949 - Paul Rodgers was born. British singer (Free)
- 1950 - Laurence F. Johnson was born. American futurist and educator
- 1951 - Ken Hitchcock was born. Canadian hockey coach
- 1951 - Tatyana Kazankina was born in Petrovsk, USSR. Middle distance runner (Olympic Gold-1976).
- 1953 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad.
- 1953 - Bill Pullman was born. American actor
- 1955 - Brad Davis was born. American basketball player
- 1957 - the United States successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.
- 1957 - "Partido Acción Nacional" is created in Mexico.
- 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers dies (b. 1893). English writer.
- 1958 - Mike Mills was born. American bassist (R.E.M.)
- 1960 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia after being ousted by his son.
- 1960 - Moreno Argentin was born. Italian cyclist
- 1961 - A fire at a circus in Niteroi, Brazil kills 323 people.
- 1962 - Rocco Mediate was born. American golfer
- 1962 - Paul Dobson was born. English football player
- 1962 - Thomas Mitchell dies (b. 1892). American actor.
- 1963 - Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea.
- 1964 - Victor Franz Hess was born (d. 1883). Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1964 - Frank Musil was born. Czech ice hockey player and scout
- 1966 - Hans Visser was born. Dutch football player (MVV, FC Utrecht)
- 1966 - Kristiina Ojuland was born. Estonian politician.
- 1966 - Tracy Byrd was born.Country musician
- 1966 - Valeri Liukin was born. Former Soviet Union Gymnast
- 1967 - Vincent Damphousse was born. Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Harold Holt dies (b. 1908). Australian Prime Minister.
- 1968 - Paul Tracy was born. Canadian race car driver.
- 1969 - Chuck Lidell was born. UFC Fighter
- 1969 - General Costa e Silva dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1902). President of Brazil.
- 1969 - Signature d'un traité d'amitié de 20 ans entre l'Algérie et la Tunisie.
- 1969 - The U.S. Air Force ended its Project Blue Book and concluded that there was no evidence of extraterrestrial activity behind UFO (OVNI) sightings.
- 1969 - SALT I talks begin.
- 1970 - My Lai trial begins.
- 1970 - Coastal cities events Mass riots in the coastal cities of Poland ended in massacre of shipyard workers in Gdynia .
- 1970 - Joshua Seth was born. American voice actor and hypnotist
- 1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau was born. French basketball player
- 1971 - Alan Khan was born. South African Radio DJ and breakfast TV host on am2day
- 1971 - Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir .
- 1972 - Ivan Pedroso was born. Cuban long jumper (Olympics-4th-92) .
- 1972 - John Abraham was born. Indian actor and model
- 1972 - Laurie Holden was born. American actress
- 1973 - The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
- 1973 - Paula Radcliffe was born. British distance runner in athletics .
- 1974 - Giovanni Ribisi was born.American actor
- 1975 - Milla Jovovitch was born in Kiev. Ukrainian actress and model.
- 1975 - Nick Dinsmore was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1975 - Lynette Fromme was sentenced in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Ford.
- 1976 - Zsanett Égerházi was born. Hungarian-born porn actress and nude model
- 1976 - Patrick Müller was born. Swiss football player
- 1976 - Takeo Spikes was born. NFL Pro Bowl linebacker
- 1976 - Éric Bédard was born. Quebec speed skater
- 1978 - The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
- 1978 - OPEC raises oil prices 18% .
- 1978 - Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda.
- 1978 - Riteish Deshmukh was born. Indian Actor
- 1978 - Manny Pacquiao was born. Filipino boxer
- 1978 - Chase Utley was born. Baseball player
- 1979 - in a case that aggravated racial tensions, Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, was fatally beaten after a police chase in Miami. (Four white police officers were later acquitted of charges stemming from McDuffie’s death.)
- 1981 - Members of the Red Brigades kidnapped Brigadier General James L. Dozier , the highest-ranking U.S. Army official in southern Europe, from his home in Verona, Italy. (Dozier was rescued 42 days later).
- 1982 - Craig Kielburger was born. Child labour activist
- 1982 - Tootsie opens in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Sydney Pollack, George Gaynes, and Geena Davis.
- 1982 - Homer S. Ferguson dies (b. 1889). United States Senator.
- 1983 - A fire at a night club in Madrid kills 82.
- 1986 - Eugene Hasenfus, the American convicted by Nicaragua for his part in running guns to the Contras, was pardoned, then released.
- 1986 - Vanessa Zima was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. American actress.
- 1986 - US Congress forms "Irangate" committee.
- 1987 - Irving Allen doies (b.1916). American producer.
- 1987 - Linda Wong dies (b. 1951). Adult film actress.
- 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar dies (b. 1903). Belgian novelist (Memoirs of Hadrien). First woman to be electedd for The French Academy (Académie française)
- 1988 - 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
- 1989 - The first half-hour length episode of The Simpsons debuts with their Christmas special, "Simpsons Roasting Over an Open Fire".
- 1989 - Brazil holds its first direct free election in 29 years. Fernando Collor de Mello is elected President.
- 1989 - Full scale street manifestations and riots in Timisoara ignite the Romanian Revolution
- 1989 - 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
- 1992 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by U.S (President Bush)., Canada, (Prime Minister Brian Mulroney) and Mexico (President Carlos Salinas) in separate ceremonies.
- 1992 - Dana Andrews dies (b. 1909). American actor.
- 1993 - American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles with Somali troops under the command of General Mohammed Farah Aidid.
- 1993 -Tennis star Boris Becker (26) weds Barbara Feltus (27)
- 1994 - North Korea shot down a U.S. Army helicopter which had strayed north of the demilitarized zone — the co-pilot, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, was killed; the pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall, was captured and held for nearly two weeks.
- 1994 -Six shots were fired at the White House by an unidentified gunman.
- 1994 - Lisbon 94 — European Capital of Culture ends.
- 1996 - Inauguration de la Bibliothèque François-Miterrand par Jacques Chirac
- 1996 -Guerrilheiros do Movimento Revolucionário Tupac Amaru invadem a residência do embaixador japonês em Lima, Peru, e fazem 500 reféns.
- 1996 - A Assembléia Geral das Nações Unidas elege Kofi Annan, do país africano de Gana, como seu novo secretário-geral.
- 1996 - Stanko Todorov, PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
- 1997 - A chartered Yakovlev-42 from Ukraine crashes into the mountains near Katerini, Greece killing 70
- 1998 - Claudia Benton (b. 1959) is murdered in her West University, Texas home by Angel Maturino Resendiz. Peruvian child psychologist.
- 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr. dies (b. 1943). American musician.
- 1999 - Rex Allen dies (b. 1920). American actor, singer and songwriter.
- 2002 - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and prrresidential elections within two years.
- 2002 - Giovanni Intra dies (b. in New Zealand in 1968). Co-founder in 1998 (with artist Steve Hanson) of China Art Objects Galleries in Los Angeles.
- 2002 - James Hazeldine dies (b. 1947). British actor, well known for his role on series London's Burning.
- 2002 - Evandro Lins e Silva dies (b. 1912). Brazilian jurist, journalist, writer and politician.
- 2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the third and final Lord of the Rings movie to open in theaters.
- 2003 - The British government announced the first reported case of a person dying from the human form of mad cow disease after a blood transfusion from an infected donor.
- 2003 - Ed Devereaux dies (b. 1925). Australian actor.
- 2003 - Otto Graham dies (b. 1921). American football player.
- 2005 - Jack Anderson dies (b. 1922). American journalist.
- 2005 - Marc Favreau dies (b. 1929). Quebec humorist and actor (Sol)
- 2006 - The Metalocalypse begins
- Greek Orthodox Church-Saint Barbaras day – Feast of Daniel the Prophet
- Bhutan - National Day (1907)
- USA - Wright Brothers Day (by Presidential Proclamation)
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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