History Today :First Noble peace award, fist metric unit

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army reaches Manchester

1799 Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so

1810 Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing. championship (40 rounds)

1816 Dutch regain Sumatra from the British

1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union

1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)

1836 Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)

1869 The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.

1882 John Brahms' "Gesang der Parzen" (Song of the Fates) premieres

1887 Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty

1896 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)

1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" premieres in Paris

1898 Spanish-American War formally ended by the Treaty of Paris; US acquires. Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam

1898 The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá

1899 -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa

1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army

1899 Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang" premieres in Berlin

1899 The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.

1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and. peace activist Frederic Passy

1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane in 84 days

1911 Dutch lawyer Tobias Asser receives the Nobel Peace Prize

1913 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

1914 French government returns to Paris

1918 John Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League for the 2nd time

1919 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers

1919 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of. overstepping his duties

1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson

1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards

1923 Polish government of Grabski forms

1924 Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years

1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine

1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution

1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp

1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season

1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite

1935 As sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000

1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000

1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0

1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary

1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)

1940 1941 NFL Draft: Tom Harmon from University of Michigan first pick by Chicago Bears

1941 British battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repulse (Force Z ) sunk following Japanese aerial attacks off Malaya. 840 men die

1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines

1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam

1942 Hitler names Anton Mussert "leader of the Dutch people"

1942 North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim

1943 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy

1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis

1944 German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar

1945 Aust Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts

1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car

1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement

1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize

1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel

1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting

1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances

1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins

1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium

1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola

1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111

1958 U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates

1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium

1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola

1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111

1958 U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates

1962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years

1963 6-year old Donny Osmond's singing debut on Andy Williams Show

1963 Zanzibar gains independenence from Great Britain

1965 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances

1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia

1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba

1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature

1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S. Mulliken

1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.

1970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises

1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice

1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ

1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"

1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances

1978 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians

1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament

1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth

1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1981 -13] El Salvador army kills 900

1981 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups" premieres in NYC

1981 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for. establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.

1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off

1982 CDC report on a transfusion recipient who developed AIDS symptoms

1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7

1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president

1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered

1984 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize

1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH

1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by US Congress

1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires

1987 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time

1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens

1989 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns

1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die

1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands

1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands

1991 "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances

1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day

1992 "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 performances

1992 NHL awards franchises to Miami & Anaheim for 1994-95

1992 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key

1992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)

1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67

1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)

1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins

1995 1st meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81

1995 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1995 Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA

1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617

1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)

1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982

1996 Rwandan Genocide: Maurice Baril military advisor to the UN Secretary-General and head of the UN Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations recommends the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down

2001 67th Heisman Trophy Award: Eric Crouch, Nebraska (QB)

2005 71st Heisman Trophy Award: Reggie Bush, USC (RB) (Bush would later forfeit the. trophy)

2006 One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.

2012 Google begins selling US$99 laptops

2012 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China

2012 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia

2012 Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov’s 13-year Elo rating record

2012 Japan is again in recession as the GDP figures for the second quarter of 2012 are revised to show a contraction of 0.03% and the third quarter figures fall by a further 0.9%

2012 78th Heisman Trophy Award: Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M (QB) (first freshman to win the award)

2013 Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company

2013 Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana

2015 Scientists at Cornell University announce world's first IVF puppies successfully born from a surrogate dog