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Events
484 – Huneric dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals. During his reign Christians are protected from persecution.
558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
562 – Hagia Sophia in Constantinople reopened with a rebuilt dome after a series of earthquakes caused the original to collapse.
583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque.
679 – King Dagobert II is murdered while hunting.
962 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo.
1572 – Theologian Johann Sylvan is executed in Heidelberg for his heretical Antitrinitarian beliefs.
1620: One week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth harbor in present-day Massachusetts, construction of the first permanent European settlement in New England begins.
1688 – As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.
1779 – U.S. General and turncoat Benedict Arnold is court-martialed for improper conduct.
1783 – Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris, General George Washington resigns his military commission as commander in chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland, and retires to his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.
1793 – The Battle of Savenay: a decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
1815 – Jane Austen's novel 'Emma' was first published.
1823 – The poem Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas is published anonymously in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel. More popularly known as The Night Before Christmas, it is later attributed to Clement C. Moore.
1876 – First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
1893 – The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is passed by Congress. Hours later it is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
1916 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
1919 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
1921 – Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
1936 – Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
1940 – World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.
1941 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
1944 – Private Eddie Slovik of the 28th Infantry Division was ordered to be executed for the crime of desertion, the first time such a thing was authorized since the Civil War.
1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1948 – Hideki Tojo, former Japanese premier and chief of the Kwantung Army, along with six other top Japanese leaders convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. The defendants were also found guilty of committing crimes against humanity, especially in regard to their systematic genocide of the Chinese people.
1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1958 – Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.
1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
1970 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
1970 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a single-party state.
1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000 people and leaving 250,000 homeless.
1972 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
1979 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
1982 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.
1990 – History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88.5% of Slovenia's overall electorate vote for independence from Yugoslavia.
2002 – An MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25.
2003 – PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
2007 – An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
2010 – A monsoonal trough crosses the northeastern coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, bringing mass flooding across Queensland.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud? Quia nec primam similem visa es nec habere sequentem. Filiae Jerusalem, quid me admiramini? Divinum est mysterium hoc quod cernitis.
O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be? For neither before thee was any like thee, nor shall there be after. Daughters of Jerusalem, why marvel ye at me? The thing which ye behold is a divine mystery.
Traditional Western
O Virgo virginum
Contemporary Western
O Emmanuel
John Cantius
Thorlac Thorhallsson, patron saint of Iceland;
The last day of preparations before Christmas.
John Cantius
Thorlac Thorhallsson, patron saint of Iceland;
The last day of preparations before Christmas.
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.
Saints
Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete (250):
Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician,
Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus
Martyr Schinon (Skinus), by the sword
Saint Paul, Bishop of Neo-Caesarea, a father of the First
Ecumenical Council (4th century)
Saint Niphon, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus (4th century)
Saint Chrysogonos (Chrysogonus)
Venerable David of Echmiadzin in Armenia (693)
Saint Naum of Ochrid, Enlightener of Bulgaria (910)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Virgin-Martyrs Victoria and Anatolia, two sisters martyred
in Rome for refusing to marry pagans (250)
Martyrs Migdonius and Mardonius, high officials at the imperial
court in Rome, under Diocletian (303)
Saint Servulus, a righteous man who was a cripple, used to beg
for alms at the door of the church of St Clement in Rome,
sharing what he received with other beggars (c. 590)
Saint Dagobert II, King of Austrasia in the east of France,
was exiled to a monastery in 656, recalled in 675
and martyred by the tyrant Ebroin (679)
Saint Egbert of Rathmelsigi Abbey (Ecgberht of Ripon),
who organised the mission to Frisia (Neth.) (729)
Saint Frithbert, successor of St Acca as Bishop of Hexham,
where he served for thirty-four years (766)
Saint Mazota, leader of a group of nineteen holy virgins
who went from Ireland to Scotland and founded a
monastery at Abernethy on the Tay (8th century?)
Saint Vintila, a monk who reposed as a hermit
in Pugino in Galicia in Spain (890)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod (1310)
Venerable Father Saint Theophan (Rikhlovsky),
of the Nizhyn Eparchy (1977)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs John Piankov and Nicholas Yakhontov,
Priests (1918)
New Hieromartyr Basil Spassky, Priest, at Tver (1938)
New Hieromartyr Macarius (Mironov), Hieromonk of
Zavidovskaya Gorka (Tver) (1938)
New Hieromartyr John (Smirnov), Hieromonk of Bolshoye
Mikhailovskoye (Tver) (1938)
New Hieromartyr Paul (Kratirov), Bishop of Starobelsk
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the consecration and re-dedication of the Holy and Great
Church of Christ, the Hagia Sophia, by Patriarch Eutychius (562)
Repose of Eldress Eudocia Rodionova of Leushino Monastery,
Fool-for-Christ (1886)
Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ.
Saints
Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete (250):
Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician,
Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus
Martyr Schinon (Skinus), by the sword
Saint Paul, Bishop of Neo-Caesarea, a father of the First
Ecumenical Council (4th century)
Saint Niphon, Bishop of Constantia on Cyprus (4th century)
Saint Chrysogonos (Chrysogonus)
Venerable David of Echmiadzin in Armenia (693)
Saint Naum of Ochrid, Enlightener of Bulgaria (910)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Virgin-Martyrs Victoria and Anatolia, two sisters martyred
in Rome for refusing to marry pagans (250)
Martyrs Migdonius and Mardonius, high officials at the imperial
court in Rome, under Diocletian (303)
Saint Servulus, a righteous man who was a cripple, used to beg
for alms at the door of the church of St Clement in Rome,
sharing what he received with other beggars (c. 590)
Saint Dagobert II, King of Austrasia in the east of France,
was exiled to a monastery in 656, recalled in 675
and martyred by the tyrant Ebroin (679)
Saint Egbert of Rathmelsigi Abbey (Ecgberht of Ripon),
who organised the mission to Frisia (Neth.) (729)
Saint Frithbert, successor of St Acca as Bishop of Hexham,
where he served for thirty-four years (766)
Saint Mazota, leader of a group of nineteen holy virgins
who went from Ireland to Scotland and founded a
monastery at Abernethy on the Tay (8th century?)
Saint Vintila, a monk who reposed as a hermit
in Pugino in Galicia in Spain (890)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod (1310)
Venerable Father Saint Theophan (Rikhlovsky),
of the Nizhyn Eparchy (1977)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyrs John Piankov and Nicholas Yakhontov,
Priests (1918)
New Hieromartyr Basil Spassky, Priest, at Tver (1938)
New Hieromartyr Macarius (Mironov), Hieromonk of
Zavidovskaya Gorka (Tver) (1938)
New Hieromartyr John (Smirnov), Hieromonk of Bolshoye
Mikhailovskoye (Tver) (1938)
New Hieromartyr Paul (Kratirov), Bishop of Starobelsk
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the consecration and re-dedication of the Holy and Great
Church of Christ, the Hagia Sophia, by Patriarch Eutychius (562)
Repose of Eldress Eudocia Rodionova of Leushino Monastery,
Fool-for-Christ (1886)
Coptic Church
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