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Events
1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
1419 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle
1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.
1702 – Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
1813 – War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1816) between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
1825 – The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
1853 – U.S. Minister to Mexico James Gadsden and Mexican President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna signed the historic Gadsden Purchase, establishing the final southern border of the United States. Sent by Jefferson Davis, the Secretary of War, Gadsden had been instructed to negotiate for the nearly 30,000 square miles of land west of El Paso, Texas. This patch of territory had been determined by political and industrial leaders to be an ideal location for the building of a transcontinental railroad, and therefore the U.S. would have to acquire it. Travelling to Mexico City, Gadsden met with the Mexican President Santa Anna and the two agreed on a price of fifteen million dollars for the coveted territory.
1896 – Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila, Philippines.
1896 – Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
1897 – The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
1903 – One of the deadliest blazes in U.S. history occurs at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago after electric arc lamps catch fire. The fire kills at least 605.
1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
1906 – The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
1918 – The first director of the FBI John E. Hoover decides to he will now be called J. Edgar Hoover.
1922 – Vladimir I. Lenin proclaims the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which lasts nearly seven decades before dissolving in December 1991.
1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
1943 – Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
1944 – King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
1947 – King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at Broadway's New Century Theatre in midtown Manhattan, New York, and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.
1958 – The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon stops the bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks.
1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
1981 – In the 39th game of his third NHL season, Wayne Gretzky scores five goals, giving him 50 on the year and setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy, who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.
1993 – Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
1999 – Former Beatle George Harrison is attacked by Michael Abram in his Friar Park home.
2000 – Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.
2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
2006 – Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
2006 – The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
2006 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
2009 – A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
2009 – A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
2011 – Owing to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.
2013 – More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The sixth of the Twelve Days of Christmas
Commemoration of the Octaves of Christmas, of St. Thomas of Canterbury, of St. Stephen, of St. John, and of the Innocents.
Contemporary Western
Anysia of Salonika
Egwin of Evesham
Liberius of Ravenna
Pope Felix I
Ralph of Vaucelles
Roger of Cannae
Egwin of Evesham
Liberius of Ravenna
Pope Felix I
Ralph of Vaucelles
Roger of Cannae
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Frances Joseph-Gaudet (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Apostle Timon the Deacon, of the Seventy (1st century)
Virgin-martyr Anysia of Thessaloniki (298)
Martyr Philoterus (Philetairus) of Nicomedia, and with him six soldiers
and one count (311)
Hieromartyr Zoticus the Priest, of Constantinople, Guardian of Orphans (c. 340)
Saint Anysios of Thessaloniki, Bishop of Thessaloniki (384-407)
Martyrs Magistrianus, Paulinus, Umbrius, Verus, Severus, Callistratus,
Florentius, Arianus, Anthimus, Ubricius, Isidore, Euculus, Sampson,
Studius, and Thespesius, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (361-363)
Venerable Theodora of Caesarea in Cappadocia (755)
Venerable Theodora of Constantinople, Nun (940)
Venerable Leo (Leonidus) the Archimandrite
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Liberius of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna in Italy, venerated as one of the
founders of that diocese (c. 200)
Martyrs Sabinus of Spoleto, Exuperantius, Marcellus, Venustian and Companions (303)
Saint Egwin of Evesham, Bishop of Worcester (717)
Saint Eugene of Milan, Bishop and Confessor.
Saint Sebastian, a monk who became Archbishop of Esztergom (1002)
and Primate of Hungary in the time of St Stephen (1036)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov (1468)[1][19]
Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563)[1][20]
Venerable Monk-martyr Gideon of Karakalou monastery of Mt. Athos, at Turnovo (1818)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Priest Sergius Florinsky of Rakvere, Estonia (1918)
Virgin-martyr Mary Danilova, New-Martyr of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1946)
Other commemorations
Apostle Timon the Deacon, of the Seventy (1st century)
Virgin-martyr Anysia of Thessaloniki (298)
Martyr Philoterus (Philetairus) of Nicomedia, and with him six soldiers
and one count (311)
Hieromartyr Zoticus the Priest, of Constantinople, Guardian of Orphans (c. 340)
Saint Anysios of Thessaloniki, Bishop of Thessaloniki (384-407)
Martyrs Magistrianus, Paulinus, Umbrius, Verus, Severus, Callistratus,
Florentius, Arianus, Anthimus, Ubricius, Isidore, Euculus, Sampson,
Studius, and Thespesius, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (361-363)
Venerable Theodora of Caesarea in Cappadocia (755)
Venerable Theodora of Constantinople, Nun (940)
Venerable Leo (Leonidus) the Archimandrite
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Liberius of Ravenna, Bishop of Ravenna in Italy, venerated as one of the
founders of that diocese (c. 200)
Martyrs Sabinus of Spoleto, Exuperantius, Marcellus, Venustian and Companions (303)
Saint Egwin of Evesham, Bishop of Worcester (717)
Saint Eugene of Milan, Bishop and Confessor.
Saint Sebastian, a monk who became Archbishop of Esztergom (1002)
and Primate of Hungary in the time of St Stephen (1036)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Tryphon, Bishop of Rostov (1468)[1][19]
Saint Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1563)[1][20]
Venerable Monk-martyr Gideon of Karakalou monastery of Mt. Athos, at Turnovo (1818)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Priest Sergius Florinsky of Rakvere, Estonia (1918)
Virgin-martyr Mary Danilova, New-Martyr of Yaroslavl-Rostov (1946)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (1652) of St. Daniel, Abbot of Pereyaslavl-Zalesski (1540)
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