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Events
875 – Charles the Bald King of the Franks is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles II.
1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.
1427 – The Ming army begins its withdraw from Hanoi, ending the Chinese domination of Đại Việt.
1503 – The Battle of Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
1508 – Portuguese forces under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: 3,000 British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
1786 – French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.
1813: The British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812.
1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1845 – In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.
1851 – The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1860 – The first British seagoing ironclad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.
1874 – The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.
1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster leaves 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation: Wounded Knee Creek was a convenient place for the Seventh Cavalry to disarm Big Foot’s band during the Lakota Ghost Dance “uprising” in 1890. But then a shot rang out which resulted in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment opening fire indiscriminately from all sides, killing men, women, and children, as well as some of their own fellow soldiers. By the time it was over, at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 wounded; some estimates placed the number of Lakota killed at 300. Twenty-five soldiers also died, and 39 were wounded (6 of the wounded would later die).
1895 – The botched Jameson Raid began in Johannesburg.
1911 – Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
1916 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
1916: Grigory Rasputin, the so-called “Mad Monk” who had wielded great influence with Czar Nicholas II, was killed by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg.
1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
1939 – First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.
1940 – World War II: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, UK, killing almost 200 civilians.
1948: The State Department announces the U.S. will begin work on placing objects into Earth’s orbit.
1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
1959 – Physicist Richard Feynman gives a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded as the birth of nanotechnology.
1959 – The Lisbon Metro begins operation.
1972 – An Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101.
1975 – A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74.
1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
1992 – Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
1997 – Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.
1998 – Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.
2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
2006 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
2013 – A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr. Double of the First Class
Commemoration of the Octaves of Christmas, of St. Stephen, of St. John, and of the Innocents.
Commemoration of the Octaves of Christmas, of St. Stephen, of St. John, and of the Innocents.
Contemporary Western
David, King and prophet
Thomas Becket
Trophimus of Arles
Thomas Becket
Trophimus of Arles
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem,
the first Christian martyrs.
Venerable Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (4th century)
Venerable Benjamin, monk, of Nitria in Egypt (392)[1][6][note 3]
Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones
("the Ever-Vigilant")
Venerable Thaddeus, Confessor, of the Studion Monastery (818)
Venerble Saint George, Bishop of Nicomedia, composer of Canons and Troparia
(c .857 - 891)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France (c. 280)
Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in Rome
Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus,
and Honoratus, martyrs in North Africa
Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the
small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France (7th century)
Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), Abbot, born in Bayeux, became a monk at the
monastery of Deux-Jumeaux, later founding a monastery at Pays d'Ouche
in Normany, and other smaller monasteries (596)
Saint Girald (Girard, Giraud), a monk at Lagny in France, later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul;
he became Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey, where he was murdered (1031)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Mark the Grave-digger, of the Kiev Caves (11th century)
Saints Theophilus and John, of the Kiev Caves (11th-12th century)
Saint Theophilus, Abbot, of Luga and Omutch (Pskov) (1412), disciple of
St. Arsenius of Konevits
Saint Basiliscus, Elder, the Hesychast of Siberia (Turinsk) (1824)
Venerable Laurence of Chernigov (1950)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Arcadius, Bishop of Tver (1937)
New Hieromartyr Theodosius Belenky, Priest, at Chimkent (1938)
Virgin-martyrs: Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia,
Ephrosia, Agrippina and Natalia (1942)
Other commemorations
The 14,000 Infants (Holy Innocents) slain by Herod at Bethlehem,
the first Christian martyrs.
Venerable Athenodorus, disciple of St. Pachomius the Great (4th century)
Venerable Benjamin, monk, of Nitria in Egypt (392)[1][6][note 3]
Venerable Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones
("the Ever-Vigilant")
Venerable Thaddeus, Confessor, of the Studion Monastery (818)
Venerble Saint George, Bishop of Nicomedia, composer of Canons and Troparia
(c .857 - 891)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Trophimus, first Bishop of Arles in France (c. 280)
Martyrs Callistus, Felix and Boniface, martyrs in Rome
Martyrs Dominic, Victor, Primian, Lybosus, Saturninus, Crescentius, Secundus,
and Honoratus, martyrs in North Africa
Saint Albert of Gambron, a courtier who became a hermit, later founding the
small monastery of Gambron-sur-l'Authion in France (7th century)
Saint Ebrulfus (Evroult), Abbot, born in Bayeux, became a monk at the
monastery of Deux-Jumeaux, later founding a monastery at Pays d'Ouche
in Normany, and other smaller monasteries (596)
Saint Girald (Girard, Giraud), a monk at Lagny in France, later Abbot of Saint-Arnoul;
he became Abbot of Fontenelle Abbey, where he was murdered (1031)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Mark the Grave-digger, of the Kiev Caves (11th century)
Saints Theophilus and John, of the Kiev Caves (11th-12th century)
Saint Theophilus, Abbot, of Luga and Omutch (Pskov) (1412), disciple of
St. Arsenius of Konevits
Saint Basiliscus, Elder, the Hesychast of Siberia (Turinsk) (1824)
Venerable Laurence of Chernigov (1950)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Arcadius, Bishop of Tver (1937)
New Hieromartyr Theodosius Belenky, Priest, at Chimkent (1938)
Virgin-martyrs: Natalia, Natalia, Eudokia, Anna, Matrona, Barbara, Anna, Eudokia,
Ephrosia, Agrippina and Natalia (1942)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the consecration of the church of the Holy Forty Martyrs,
near the Copper Tetrapyle (four-way arch)
Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who have died from hunger, thirst,
the sword, and freezing
near the Copper Tetrapyle (four-way arch)
Commemoration of all Orthodox Christians who have died from hunger, thirst,
the sword, and freezing
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