557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake.
835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
1287 – St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots.
1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first military academy in the world.
1777: The Continental Congress named Irish-born Thomas Conway to the post of inspector general of the United States.
1782 – The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight.
1799: George Washington, the man described by fellow soldier and Virginian Henry Lee as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen," died of acute laryngitis at his estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia. He was 67 years old.
1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln announced a grant of amnesty for Emilie Todd Helm, his wife Mary Lincoln's half sister and the widow of a Confederate general. The pardon was one of the first under Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which he had announced less than a week before.
1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1900 – Quantum mechanics: German physicist Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law, publishing his groundbreaking study of the effect of radiation on a "blackbody" substance, and the quantum theory of modern physics is born.
1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907 – The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
1911 – Norwegian Roald Amundsen 's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott.
1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1918 – In the latest bump on Finland's rocky road from Swedish and Russian duchy to independent nation, the newly-crowned Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German-born prince and the brother-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounce the Finnish throne after barely two months.
1918 – Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
1939 – Winter War: The League of Nations, the international peacekeeping organization formed at the end of World War I, expells the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in response to the Soviets' invasion of Finland on October 30.
1941 – World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.
1944: Congress establishes the rank of 5-star General of the Army.
1946 – The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York, New York.
1947 – Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid C.F., staged its first football match.
1955 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations.
1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
1961 – Tanganyika joins the United Nations.
1961: In a public exchange of letters with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, President John F. Kennedy formally announced that the United States would increase aid to South Vietnam, which would include the expansion of the U.S. troop commitment.
1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1963 – The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
1964: In Laos, Operation Barrel Roll, the name given to the first phase of the bombing plan approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 1, began with U.S. planes attacking "targets of opportunity" in northern Laos.
1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1968: Boston Bruin Bobby Orr scores his first career hat trick against the Chicago Blackhawks.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan 's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
1980: A CIA report claimed that the Soviet Union delivered nearly $7 billion worth of military assistance to Third World nations in 1979, and made over $8 billion in arms sales during that same year. The study also noted that there were nearly 51,000 communist military advisers in Third World countries. The report indicated that the arms sales increased instability and chances for military conflict.
1981: Israel annexed the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967.
1981 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967.
1983 – The third Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
1988 – The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
1992 – War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1998 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
1999 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
2003 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2004 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
2013 – A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius, and Callinicus (Coronatus),
with others, of Bithynia (c. 250)
Martyrs Apollonius, Philemon, Arianus, Theoctychus, and four
guards converted by St. Arianus, at Alexandria (c. 305)
Martyr Hypatius, and 36 martyrs with him, from the Thebaid in Egypt
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Justus and Abundius (283)
Saint Pompeius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy (c. 290)
Saint Matronian, born in Milan, he became a hermit;
his relics were enshrined by St. Ambrose
Saint Viator of Bergamo, an early Bishop of Bergamo in Italy
from 344 to 378 (378)
Hieromartyr Nicasius of Rheims, Bishop of Rheims in France,
with his sister Eutropia and Companions (407)
Saints Fingar (Gwinear) and Phiala, brother and sister,
and Companions, martyrs in Cornwall (5th century)
Saint Agnellus, a hermit and then Abbot of San Gaudioso
near Naples in Italy (c. 596)
Saint Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers (c. 609)
Saint Hibald (Hygbald), an abbot in Lincolnshire in England to whom
several churches are dedicated, notably at Hibaldstow (c. 690)
Saint Folciunus, Bishop of Tervas (Netherlands) (855)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Hilarion, Metropolitan of Suzdal and Yuriev (1707)New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Kovalev, Priest of Alma-Ata (1937)
New Hiero-Confessor Bassian (Pyatnitsky), Archbishop of Tambov (1940)
Other commemorations
1947 – Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid C.F., staged its first football match.
1955 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations.
1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
1961 – Tanganyika joins the United Nations.
1961: In a public exchange of letters with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, President John F. Kennedy formally announced that the United States would increase aid to South Vietnam, which would include the expansion of the U.S. troop commitment.
1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1963 – The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
1964: In Laos, Operation Barrel Roll, the name given to the first phase of the bombing plan approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 1, began with U.S. planes attacking "targets of opportunity" in northern Laos.
1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1968: Boston Bruin Bobby Orr scores his first career hat trick against the Chicago Blackhawks.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan 's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
1980: A CIA report claimed that the Soviet Union delivered nearly $7 billion worth of military assistance to Third World nations in 1979, and made over $8 billion in arms sales during that same year. The study also noted that there were nearly 51,000 communist military advisers in Third World countries. The report indicated that the arms sales increased instability and chances for military conflict.
1981: Israel annexed the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967.
1981 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights, which it had seized from Syria in 1967.
1983 – The third Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
1988 – The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
1992 – War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1998 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
1999 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
2003 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2004 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
2013 – A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of the Conception.
Contemporary Western
John of the Cross
Nimatullah Kassab (Maronite Church)
Spyridon (Western Church)
Nimatullah Kassab (Maronite Church)
Spyridon (Western Church)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
with others, of Bithynia (c. 250)
Martyrs Apollonius, Philemon, Arianus, Theoctychus, and four
guards converted by St. Arianus, at Alexandria (c. 305)
Martyr Hypatius, and 36 martyrs with him, from the Thebaid in Egypt
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Pompeius of Pavia, Bishop of Pavia in Italy (c. 290)
Saint Matronian, born in Milan, he became a hermit;
his relics were enshrined by St. Ambrose
Saint Viator of Bergamo, an early Bishop of Bergamo in Italy
from 344 to 378 (378)
Hieromartyr Nicasius of Rheims, Bishop of Rheims in France,
with his sister Eutropia and Companions (407)
Saints Fingar (Gwinear) and Phiala, brother and sister,
and Companions, martyrs in Cornwall (5th century)
Saint Agnellus, a hermit and then Abbot of San Gaudioso
near Naples in Italy (c. 596)
Saint Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers (c. 609)
Saint Hibald (Hygbald), an abbot in Lincolnshire in England to whom
several churches are dedicated, notably at Hibaldstow (c. 690)
Saint Folciunus, Bishop of Tervas (Netherlands) (855)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Hilarion, Metropolitan of Suzdal and Yuriev (1707)New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hiero-Confessor Bassian (Pyatnitsky), Archbishop of Tambov (1940)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the Constantinople earthquake of 557
Repose of Blessed Recluse John of Sezenovo Convent (1839)
Repose of Blessed Recluse John of Sezenovo Convent (1839)
Coptic Orthodox
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