480 – Odoacer, first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate.
536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flee the capital.
730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, Al-Jarrah Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami.
1425 – The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Great Bridge: The Virginia and North Carolina militias defeat 800 slaves and 200 redcoats serving John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, at Great Bridge outside Norfolk, ending British royal control of Virginia. British troops leave Virginia soon afterward.
1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
1824 – Patriot forces led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho, putting an end to the Peruvian War of Independence.
1835 – Texas Revolution: Inspired by the spirited leadership of Benjamin Rush Milam, the newly created Texan Army captures the city of San Antonio, an important victory for the Republic of Texas in its war for independence from Mexico.
1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1854: The Examiner prints Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade," which commemorates the courage of 600 British soldiers charging a heavily defended position during the Battle of Balaklava, in the Crimea, just six weeks earlier. Tennyson had been named poet laureate in 1850 by Queen Victoria.
1856 – The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress in an effort to monitor both military progress and President Abraham Lincoln's administration.
1863: Salmon Chase (R-OH), the Treasury Secretary, wrote to the Director of the Mint instructing him to place the motto In God We Trust on designs for U.S. coins.
1868 – The first traffic lights were installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London.
1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.
1875 – The Massachusetts Rifle Association, "America's Oldest Active Gun Club", is founded.
1888 – Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his computing device at the United States War Department.
1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
1902 – Baseball’s American League announces the purchase of grounds for a stadium in New York.
1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
1917 – World War I: After Turkish troops move out of the region after only a single day's fighting, officials of the Holy City of Jerusalem offer the keys to the city to encroaching British troops. The British, led by Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, who had arrived from the Western Front the previous June to take over the command in Egypt, enters the Holy City two days later under strict instructions from London on how not to appear disrespectful to the city, its people, or its traditions. Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot—in deliberate contrast to Kaiser Wilhelm s more flamboyant entrance on horseback in 1898—and no Allied flags are flown over the city, while Muslim troops from India are dispatched to guard the religious landmark the Dome of the Rock.
1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 – Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1935 – The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – Two British divisions under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor, half of them composed of Indian troops, attack seven Italian divisions near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. Overwhelmed, the Italian position in Egypt collapsed.
1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.
1941 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.
1946 – The "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
1946 – The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.
1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1956 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1958 – The anti-communist John Birch Society is founded in Indianapolis by retired Boston candy manufacturer Robert H.W. Welch, Jr.
1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
1965 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
1965: An article in the New York Times asserted that the U.S. bombing campaign had neither destabilized North Vietnam's economy nor appreciably reduced the flow of its forces into South Vietnam. These observations were strikingly similar to an earlier Defense Intelligence Agency analysis, which concluded that "the idea that destroying, or threatening to destroy, North Vietnam's industry would pressure Hanoi into calling it quits seems, in retrospect, a colossal misjudgement."
1966 – Barbados joins the United Nations.
1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
1969 – U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the PLO, which leads to civil war in Jordan in September 1970.
1971 – The United Arab Emirates join the United Nations.
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1971: For the first time since the Paris peace talks began in May 1968, both sides refused to set another meeting date for continuation of the negotiations.
1973 – British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
1987 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In the Gaza Strip, the first riots of the Palestinian intifada, or "shaking off" in Arabic, begin one day after an Israeli truck crashes into a station wagon carrying Palestinian workers in the Jabalya refugee district of Gaza, killing four and wounding 10.
1992: In Poland, Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity trade union, won a landslide election victory, becoming the first directly elected Polish leader.
1992: 1,800 United States Marines arrive in Mogadishu, Somalia, to spearhead a multinational force aimed at restoring order in the conflict-ridden country.
1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
2003 – A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.
2013 – At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of the Conception.
Contemporary Western
Juan Diego
Leocadia
Nectarius of Auvergne
Peter Fourier
Leocadia
Nectarius of Auvergne
Peter Fourier
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (c. 284-305)
Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553)
Martyr Nerses of Persia, by the sword
Martyr Isaac
Saint Bassa (Vassa), Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery
in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of St Menas,
whose Abbot was the Bishop of Jamnia, Stephanos
Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th century)
Saint Stephen “the New Light” of Constantinople (912)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
of Pavia in Italy (c. 1st century)
Virgin-martyr Valerie of Limoges (Valeria of Aquitaine),
by tradition she was converted by St Martial of Limoges
in France and beheaded (1st or 3rd century)
Virgin-martyr Leocadia (Locaie), in Toledo, Spain (c. 303)
Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy, a confessor
during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (c. 320)
Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus
and 20 other Companions, in North Africa
Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life
as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586)
Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr
Saint Balda, third Abbess of Jouarre in France (7th century)
Saint Budoc (Budeaux), born in Brittany, became Abbot of Youghal
in Ireland, then Bishop of Dol in Brittany (7th century?)
Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great,
became first Abbess of Shaftesbury (896)
Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England (c. 1000)
Saint Enguerrammus (Angilram) 'the Wise',
monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France (1045)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Hieromonk Anthymus the Athonite, "Fool for Christ"
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Dzhurinsky, priest
and Virgin-martyr Ephrosia Dzhurinsky (1920)
New Hieromartyrs Basil Yagodin, Protopresbyter,
and Alexander Buravtsev, priests (1937)
New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechiev of Moscow (1941)
New-Martyr Archpriest Paul Levashov of Gomel
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem (335)
Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries,
fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy"
Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries,
fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802)
Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy"
Coptic Orthodox
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