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What happened in history on this day: December 26?
On December 26 in ...
- 268 - Saint Dionysius dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 418 - Saint Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 795 - Saint Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1194 - Birth of Frederick II Iesi Italy, German Emperor (1212-1250)/King of Sicily.
- 1198 - French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest.
- 1476 - Galeazzo Maria Sforza duke of Milan, murdered.
- 1481 - Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht.
- 1492 - First Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus.
- 1530 - Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at age 47.
- 1568 - Uprising of Morisco's against suppression in Granada.
- 1574 - Charles Guise archbishop/cardinal of Reims, dies at age 50.
- 1618 - Birth of Elisabeth Paltsgravin of Rhine/abbess.
- 1620 - Pilgrims on the English ship Mayflower come ashore at Plymouth Rock in North America (modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts), to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony.
- 1624 - Death of Simon Marius at age 54 in Anspach, Bavaria; astronomer (named the four largest moons of Jupiter), first to report the spiral nebula in Andromeda.
- 1627 - Gonzaga Italian monarch of Mantua/Monferrato, dies.
- 1633 - Birth of Charles E Biset Flemish painter, baptised.
- 1658 - Simon Guillain French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies at age 78.
- 1659 - Long Parliament reforms in Westminster.
- 1679 - John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at age 53.
- 1716 - Birth of Thomas Gray English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard).
- 1731 - Birth of Anthony Ziesenis architect/sculptor (Town Hall of Westzaan).
- 1738 - Birth of Thomas Nelson merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1740 - Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau Lieutenant-General (12 children), dies.
- 1747 - Birth of Cornelis Stevens Belgium, Roman Catholic foreman/polemist (Le sophisme dévoilé).
- 1748 - France and Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands.
- 1770 - Birth of Pierre earl de Cambronne French general (Waterloo, Elba).
- 1771 - Birth of Heinrich J von Collin Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus).
- 1771 - Claude A Helvétius French encyclopedist (L'esprit), dies at age 56.
- 1773 - Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia.
- 1776 - US General George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton, New Jersey.
- 1792 - Birth of Charles Babbage; English inventor (calculating machine).
- 1797 - Death of John Wilkes at age 72; English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader.
- 1799 - George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
- 1805 - France and Austria sign Peace of Pressburg.
- 1805 - Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia, USA.
- 1809 - Birth of William Nelson Pendleton; Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) (dies 1883).
- 1809 - English invasionary troops leave Vlissingen.
- 1811 - In Richmond, Virginia, a fire breaks out in a new theater, killing almost eighty, including Governor George Smith.
- 1813 - Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrender to allied armies.
- 1815 - Birth of Israel Bush Richardson; US Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1862).
- 1820 - Birth of Gustavus Adolphus Smith; US Brigadier-General (Union volunteers) (dies 1885).
- 1822 - Birth of Dion Boucicault; Irish/US actor/playwright (Rip van Winkle).
- 1824 - Birth of Augustus Louis Chetlain; Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1914).
- 1826 - Birth of Martinus Nijhoff; founder Nijhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale).
- 1837 - Birth of George Dewey; admiral, American naval hero of Manila.
- 1837 - Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at age 87.
- 1849 - Birth of Samuel E "Sam" van Beem; actor (Fanfan la Tulipe).
- 1854 - Wood-pulp paper first exhibited, Buffalo, New York.
- 1861 - In Tilsit, Germany, Emil Wiechert is born; pioneer in the science of seismology.
- 1861 - Birth of Friedrich Engel; German mathematician (group theory).
- 1861 - Philip Saint George Cocke, Confederate Brigadier-General, commits suicide at age 52.
- 1862 - First US navy hospital ship enters service.
- 1862 - 38 Santee Sioux Indians are hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, USA due to their uprising.
- 1865 - James H Mason (Massachusetts) patents first US coffee percolator.
- 1867 - Birth of Julien Benda; French philosopher/writer (Dialogues à Byzance).
- 1870 - The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
- 1873 - Birth of Hubert Cuypers; Dutch composer/choir conductor (Minstrels).
- 1874 - Birth of Norman Angell [Lane]; English cowboy/journalist (Nobel Prize 1933).
- 1877 - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds first national convention.
- 1878 - First US store to install electric lights, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1878 - Birth of Isaiah Bowman; US geography/co-founder (Geographical Review).
- 1883 - Birth of Carl Oscar Ahues in Germany; International Chess Master (1950).
- 1886 - Birth of Gyula Gömbös von Jákfa; general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35).
- 1888 - Birth of Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi; Japanese stagewriter (Tjitj Kaeru).
- 1890 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at age 86.
- 1890 - King Mwanga of Uganda signs contract with East Africa Company.
- 1891 - Birth of Henry Miller; author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus).
- 1893 - Birth of Mao Tse-tung; Prime Minister of People's Republic of China (1949-76).
- 1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
- 1899 - Mafeking: Bathe-Powells assault up fort Game Tree fails; 24 killed.
- 1902 - Birth of Elisha Cook Junior in San Francisco, California, USA; actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI).
- 1902 - Most knock downs in a boxing fight, Oscar Nelson (5) and Christy Williams (42).
- 1904 - Birth of Alentejo Carpentier; Cuban/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo).
- 1906 - Premiere of The Story of the Kelly Gang, first feature film (70 minutes), made and shown in Australia.
- 1908 - Birth of Ralph Hill; American 5000m runner (Olympics-1932).
- 1908 - Jackson Johnson knocks out Tommy Burns in 14 rounds at Sydney, Australia for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1914 - Birth of Richard Widmark in Sunrise, Minnesota, USA; actor (Madigan, Judgment at Nüremberg).
- 1915 - Birth of Albert Henry Gomperts AKA Hans Gomperts in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Dutch literary, essayist, and literary critic (The Duck in the Attic).
- 1915 - Birth of Una Mae Carlisle in Xenia, Ohio, USA; pianist/vocalist ("Walkin' at the River").
- 1916 - Frank Penn, cricket player (one Test for England versus Australia 1880), dies.
- 1916 - Joseph J C Joffre becomes marshal of France.
- 1917 - First NHL defensemen to score a goal: Toronto Maple Leafs' Harry Cameron.
- 1917 - Birth of Rosemary Woods; US President Richard Nixon's secretary.
- 1917 - US government takes over operation of American railroad for duration of European war.
- 1918 - First day of first-class cricket in Australia after WWI (Victoria versus New South Wales).
- 1919 - New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth.
- 1921 - Birth of Steve Allen in New York City, New York, USA; comedian/TV host (The Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show).
- 1925 - First East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans.
- 1925 - NHL record 141 shots as New York Americans (73) beat Pittsburgh Pirates (68) 3-1.
- 1925 - Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar.
- 1926 - Birth of Edgar D Ngoyi; South African African National Congress leader (17 years in Robbeneiland Jail).
- 1927 - Birth of Alan King AKA Irwin Kniberg in New York City, New York, USA; standup comedian and actor (33 times on Ed Sullivan Show TV show, Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me, co-hosted Tony Awards and the Oscar Awards).
- 1927 - Birth of Denis Quilley in London, England; actor (Masada).
- 1928 - Johnny Weissmuller announces his retirement from amateur swimming.
- 1928 - World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Alan Kippax / Hal Hooker) New South Wales versus Victoria.
- 1930 - Birth of Donald Moffat in Plymouth, England; actor (Kent - Logan's Run, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years).
- 1931 - Birth of Thomas K "Tom" van Brook; actor/interpreter (Soldier of Orange).
- 1931 - Death of Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification (born 1851).
- 1932 - Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu, China.
- 1933 - FM radio is patented.
- 1933 - Donald Bradman scores 187 New South Wales versus Victoria, 294 minutes, 13 fours.
- 1933 - US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1934 - Yomiuri Giants, Japan's first professional baseball team, forms.
- 1935 - Birth of Abdul "Duke" Fakir in Detroit, Michigan, USA; rock vocalist (Four Tops).
- 1935 - Birth of Barbara J Jacket; American athletic coach (Olympics-1972).
- 1935 - Birth of Rohan Kanhai; cricket player (one of West Indies' finest batsmen).
- 1936 - Birth of Caroll Spinney; (Big Bird on Sesame Street).
- 1938 - Donald Bradman scores 225 South Australia versus Queensland before Christ gets him out.
- 1938 - Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England versus South Africa.
- 1939 - Birth of Lynn Martin; US Secretary of Labor (1991-93).
- 1939 - Birth of [Harvey] Phil Spector; record producer (Wall of Sound).
- 1939 - Mine strikes in Borinage, Brussels.
- 1940 - First-class debut of Arthur Morris, who scores 148.
- 1941 - Birth of Daniel Schmid; actor/director (Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs).
- 1941 - Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of US Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing".
- 1942 - Birth of Barry Wood; cricket player (England opener in early 1970s).
- 1942 - Birth of Earl Cate in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA; country singer/twin of Ernie (Cate Brothers - "Fire on the Tracks").
- 1942 - Birth of Ernie Cate in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA; country singer/twin of Earl (Cate Brothers - "Fire on the Tracks").
- 1942 - Birth of Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo; President of Guatemala (1986-91).
- 1942 - Birth of Rob de Nijs; Dutch singer (Put a candle in your window).
- 1942 - Bosinier de la Chapelle, French murderer of Admiral Darlan, executed at age 24.
- 1943 - British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst.
- 1943 - Chicago Bears win NFL championship.
- 1944 - Battle of Bastogne-US General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse the Germans.
- 1944 - Birth of Jane Lapotaire; actress (Spirit of the Dead).
- 1944 - Budapest surrounded by Soviet army.
- 1945 - Birth of John Walsh; activist/TV host (America's Most Wanted).
- 1946 - 35th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0).
- 1946 - Birth of Bob Carpenter; keyboardist (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band).
- 1946 - Gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel opens the Flamingo Hotel and Casino on the desert highway between Las Vegas and the McCarren airport. Cost was nearly $6 million, on an initial budget of $1 million.
- 1947 - Birth of Carlton Fisk in Vermont, USA; all star catcher (Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox).
- 1947 - Birth of Joyce Jillson in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA; psychic/actress (Superchick).
- 1947 - British transfer Heard and McDonald Islands (Indian Ocean) to Australia.
- 1947 - Heavy snow blankets Northeast USA, buries New York City under 25.8 inches of snow in 16 hours; the same day, Los Angeles sets a record high of 84 degrees F.
- 1948 - Birth of Chris Chambliss; first baseman (New York Yankee).
- 1949 - Birth of Ira Newborn in New York City, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Manhattan Transfer).
- 1950 - Birth of Michael Jones; rocker (BT Express - "Here Comes the Express").
- 1950 - Birth of Victoria Racimo in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Corene - Falcon Crest).
- 1950 - Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series advertising rights (US$6 million for six years).
- 1950 - James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies at age 68.
- 1952 - Birth of André-Michel Schub in Paris, France; pianist (Van Cliburn-1981).
- 1952 - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at age 59.
- 1954 - Birth of Ozzie Smith in Mobile, Alabama, USA; infielder (Saint Louis Cardinals).
- 1954 - Birth of Peter Woods; rocker (Romeo Void - "Girl in Trouble").
- 1954 - Birth of Susan H Butcher; dog sled driver (Iditarod).
- 1954 - Birth of Ullrich Diessner in the German Democratic Republic; four man cox/twin of Walter (Olympics-silver-1976).
- 1954 - Birth of Walter Diessner in the German Democratic Republic; four man cox/twin of Ullrich (Olympics-silver-1976).
- 1954 - Cleveland Browns beat Detroit Lions 56-10 in NFL championship game.
- 1955 - Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 38-14 in NFL championship game.
- 1955 - RKO is first to announce sale of rights to its film library for TV broadcast.
- 1956 - Birth of Gail Tatterson; Women's Professional Basketball League center (New York Stars).
- 1956 - Birth of Karen Smith; Women's Professional Basketball League forward (New York Stars).
- 1956 - Holmes Herbert, actor (The Kiss), dies at age 74.
- 1959 - Birth of Lesley Tomlinson in Derbyshire, England; cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1960 - Birth of Terri Garber in Miami, Florida, USA; actress (Leslie Carrington - Dynasty).
- 1960 - Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Hansa quarter, Berlin), dies at age 54.
- 1960 - Philadelphia Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game.
- 1961 - Birth of Storm Davis in Dallas, Texas, USA; pitcher (Kansas City Royals).
- 1961 - Birth of Tahnee Welch [La Tahn Renee Welch] in San Diego, California, USA; actress (Cocoon).
- 1961 - Charlie Frank, cricket player (South Africa Test centurion versus Australia 1921-22), dies.
- 1962 - Birth of James Kottak; drummer (The Scorpions - "Rock You Like a Hurricane").
- 1962 - Birth of Brian Westrum; country drummer (Sons of the Desert).
- 1963 - "Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies.
- 1963 - The Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There".
- 1963 - Birth of Lars Ulrich in Gentofte, Denmark; rock drummer (Metallica - "Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters").
- 1963 - US furnishes cereal to USSR.
- 1964 - Birth of Colleen Dion in Newburgh, New York, USA; actress (Felicia - The Bold and the Beautiful, Brett Gardner - Another World).
- 1964 - Birth of Jeff King in Marion, Indiana, USA; infielder (Pittsburgh Pirates).
- 1964 - Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game.
- 1965 - Birth of Nadia Dajani; actress (Ned and Stacey, That's Life).
- 1965 - Birth of Ben Husaby in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA; cross country skier (Olympics-1994).
- 1965 - Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game.
- 1966 - Birth of Tim Legler; NBA guard (Washington Wizards/Bullets).
- 1966 - Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker; Dutch author (Poverty), dies at age 88.
- 1966 - Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (first fruits of harvest) holiday.
- 1967 - Birth of J; guitarist (White Zombie).
- 1967 - Birth of Tony Covington; NFL safety (Seattle Seahawks).
- 1967 - S F Barnes, cricket player (27 Tests for England, 189 wickets), dies.
- 1968 - Arab terrorists in Athens, Greece, fire on El Al plane, killing one person.
- 1968 - Birth of Darren Barber in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1968 - Boston Bruins' Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of three minors, two majors and two game misconducts in a game against the New York Rangers in New York's Madison Square Garden.
- 1968 - Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston, Massachusetts as opener for Vanilla Fudge.
- 1969 - Birth of Peter Klett; guitarist (Candlebox).
- 1969 - Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at age 67.
- 1970 - Birth of Lisa Gathright in Moline, Illinois, USA; WPVA volleyball player (US Open-17th-1993).
- 1970 - Birth of Radka Zrubakova in Bratislava, Slovakia; tennis star (1994 Futures-Germany).
- 1970 - Birth of Willie Williams; NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Seattle Seahawks).
- 1971 - Birth of Mark Lathwell; cricket player (England opening batsman versus Australia 1993).
- 1971 - Birth of Jared Leto; actor (My So-Called Life).
- 1971 - Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at age 57.
- 1972 - Birth of Burnell Roques; NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons).
- 1972 - Birth of Derrick Cullors; running back (New England Patriots).
- 1972 - Birth of Jared Leto in Bossier City, Louisiana, USA; actor (Jordan - My So Called Life).
- 1972 - Harry Truman, 33rd US President, dies in Kansas City, Missouri at age 88.
- 1973 - Film The Exorcist, starring Linda Blair and rated X, premieres.
- 1973 - Two Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours.
- 1973 - Birth of Ryan Berube; American 800 metre freestyle relay (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1973 - Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at age 74.
- 1973 - Soyuz 13 returns to Earth.
- 1973 - Steven Geray, actor (French Line), dies at age 69.
- 1973 - William Haines, actor (Little Annie Rooney), dies of cancer at age 73.
- 1974 - Birth of Tiffany Brissette; actress (Vicki - Small Wonder).
- 1974 - Birth of Tony Brackens; defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars).
- 1974 - Death of Benjamin Kubelsky AKA Jack Benny at age 80 of pancreatic cancer; violin-playing, comedian of radio, television and vaudeville (Jack Benny Show).
- 1974 - The Soviet Salyut 4 space station is launched.
- 1975 - First supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144).
- 1975 - A crowd of 85,661 attends the first day of the Australia-West Indies Melbourne Cricket Ground Test Cricket.
- 1975 - Birth of Marcelo Rios in Santiago, Chile; tennis star (1995 Amsterdam).
- 1976 - Philip A Hart, American politician (Senator-Democrat-Michigan), dies at age 64.
- 1977 - Birth of Brandee Layne Loving; Miss Mississippi Teen USA (1996).
- 1977 - Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at age 81.
- 1977 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1978 - India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, released from jail.
- 1979 - In the United Kingdom, a magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurs, located about 30 km northeast of Carlisle.
- 1979 - Birth of Chris Daughtry; American singer and guitarist (American Idol TV show).
- 1979 - In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins December 28.
- 1980 - Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento," kills himself by overdose on San Quentin prison death row (born 1950).
- 1980 - Birth of Serena Phillips in Corvallis, Oregon; figure skater (1997 Pruetten Champion).
- 1981 - One of the great day's Test Cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Australia versus West Indies.
- 1982 - Time magazine's Man of the Year is a computer, first non-human.
- 1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1982 - Forces of Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea seize village of Yeang Dangkum, holding it two weeks.
- 1983 - Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, versus Pakistan Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 1984 - Belgian princess Astrid marries arch duke Otto L van Austrian-Este.
- 1985 - Birth of Steven Hartman in Westlake, California; actor (Rick Forrester - The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1985 - Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, versus India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1986 - Doug Jarvis, age 31, sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games.
- 1986 - Death of Elsa Lanchester AKA Elizabeth Sullivan at age 84 of bronchial pneumonia; actress (The Bride of Frankenstein, The John Forsythe Show).
- 1986 - Hijackers take over an Iraqi Airways Boeing 737 with 91 people on board during a flight from Baghdad to Amman. It lands in Arar, Saudi Arabia where it explodes, killing 62 people.
- 1986 - NBC-TV airs the final episode of long-running (35 years) TV soap opera Search for Tomorrow.
- 1988 - Anti-African student rebellion in People's Republic of China.
- 1988 - John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at age 90.
- 1989 - ODI debut for Mark Taylor and Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1989 - Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies.
- 1990 - Reggie Williams becomes first general manager of WLAF's New York-New Jersey Knights.
- 1990 - Due to a financial dispute between the club owners, the Fort Myers Sun Sox franchise collapses causing the Senior Professional Association League to fold in the middle of its second season.
- 1991 - Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years.
- 1991 - Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor - Guns of Paradise), dies at age 70.
- 1991 - Jack Ruby's gun (killed Lee Harvey Oswald) sells for US$220,000 in auction.
- 1991 - Militant Sikhs kill 55 and wound 70 in India.
- 1991 - New York Islanders' Derek King ties New Jersey Devils 5-5 with half second left.
- 1991 - The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
- 1991 - An independent Ukraine is declared.
- 1992 - Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch poet (Antipodes), dies at age 74.
- 1992 - Constance Carpenter, actress (Two Worlds), dies of stroke at age 87.
- 1992 - John G Kemeny, US computer pioneer (BASIC programming language), dies.
- 1992 - New York Jets' announcer Marty Glickman retires at age 75.
- 1993 - Antonov-26 plane crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed.
- 1993 - Floyd, Nicklaus and Rodriguez win Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge Golf Tournament.
- 1993 - Jeff Morrow, actor (Robe, Harbor Lights, Blood Legacy), dies at age 80.
- 1994 - French anti-terrorist police storm a hijacked Air France jet at Marseille and kill four Islamist terrorists.
- 1994 - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory - Another World), dies at age 80.
- 1994 - Sylvia Brandts Buys, actress (Hague's Post), dies at age 85.
- 1994 - Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at age 61.
- 1995 - Birth of Zach Mills; actor (October Road, Zip).
- 1995 - Muttiah Muralitharan no-balled for throwing (SL versus Australia, Melbourne Cricket Ground).
- 1995 - Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 days.
- 1996 - Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
- 1996 - Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey is murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado.
- 1998 - Death of Hurd Hatfield at age 80 of a heart attack; actor (The Picture of Dorian Gray movie, General Hospital TV show, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Studio One, Climax, Dupont Show of the Month).
- 1998 - Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern "no-fly zones".
- 1999 - Royal Caribbean International's Voyager of the Seas cruise ship sets a new record for most guests on a single cruise: 3497.
- 2000 - Death of Jason Robards Junior of mestasticized lung cancer at age 78; Oscar, Tony, and Emmy-winning actor (Inherit the Wind (1998), The Atlanta Child Murders, Mark Twain and Me, Sakharov, FDR: The Last Year, Washington: Behind Closed Doors).
- 2001 - Death of Nigel Hawthorne at age 72 of a heart attack; British actor (Yes Minister , Yes, Prime Minister).
- 2003 - In Southeastern Iran, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurs, the deadliest earthquake in 2003, likely the largest earthquake in this area in 2000 years. About 31,000 people killed, 30,000 injured, 75,600 homeless and 85 percent of buildings damaged or destroyed in the Bam area.
- 2004 - One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of 14 nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. 228,000 people are killed or missing in 12 countries, and 1.7 million are left homeless. The tsunami causes more casualties than any other in recorded history and is recorded nearly world-wide on tide gauges in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
- 2004 - The re-run of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election takes place. Opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko is declared the victor.
- 2004 - Death of Mieszko Talarczyk, Swedish guitarist/musician (Nasum) (born 1974).
- 2005 - ABC-TV airs the last Monday Night Football after 36 years.
- 2006 - Death of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (born 1913).
- 2006 - An oil pipeline is blown up in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.
- 2006 - The Hengchun earthquake in Taiwan kills two people, damages about 15 historical buildings and several undersea cable, disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia.
- 2010 - Death of Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (born 1926).
- 2014 - Death of Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (born 1922).
- 2017 - Honduras and Panama announce that they will move their Israeli embassy to Jerusalem.
- 2017 - Death of Johnny Bower, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1924).
- 2018 - After weeks of losses the Dow Jones Industrial Average posts its largest ever one-day point gain: 1,086 points.
- 2021 - Death of Desmond Tutu at age 90 of cancer; Anglican archbishop (Cape Town, South Africa), writer (No Future Without Forgiveness (1999)), Nobel Peace Price recipient.
- 2021 - Death of Karolos Papoulias, 6th President of Greece (born 1929).
- 2021 - Death of Sarah Weddington at age 76; American lawyer (Roe v. Wade).
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