2010 A Japanese salmon subspecies, the black kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka kawamurae) is discovered after being declared extinct in 1940
2009 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urged countries to agree on a new U. N. pact aimed at averting climate change and global warming
1997 San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
1996 Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1996 Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
1996 Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
1994 "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 20 performances
1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed
1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
1993 Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense
1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
1992 WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR
1991 "Nick and Nora" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 9 performances
1991 Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
1985 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed
1984 U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1983 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
1983 Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in New York City
1982 Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants
1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery
1982 Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved
1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
1981 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
1980 New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
1980 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama
1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages
1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground
1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness
1973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
1973 U.S. Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
1971 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
1970 S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
1967 Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
1967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hour, 34 die
1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 12 performances
1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
1966 John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
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