Today Memories
| 1997 | Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season |
| 1997 | Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game |
| 1997 | Lexus Senior Golf Challenge |
| 1997 | Wendy’s Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges |
| 1997 | Wendy’s Three-Tour LPGA Challenge |
| 1996 | Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning |
| 1995 | Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup |
| 1995 | San Francisco Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000 |
| 1994 | Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City |
| 1992 | Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die |
| 1991 | 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996) |
| 1991 | El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane |
| 1991 |
 jane-fonda U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner |
| 1991 | Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States |
| 1990 | Steve and Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW vs. WA |
| 1989 | Romania’s dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s final speech (executed 12/25) |
| 1989 | Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon |
| 1988 | Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine |
| 1988 | New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die |
| 1988 | Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien |
| 1987 | 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man |
| 1987 | Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir |
| 1987 | Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched |
| 1986 | 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2) |
| 1986 | Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 1985 | ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA |
| 1985 | Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 1985 | Heart’s “Heart,” album goes #1 |
| 1984 | Islander Kelly Hrudy’s 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0 |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley’s Come |
| 1983 | “Tap Dance Kid” opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 669 performances |
| 1983 | Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan |
| 1983 | Musical “Tap Dance Kid” with H Battle premieres in New York City |
| 1983 | NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak |
| 1983 | NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men’s basketball free throw rule |
| 1981 | Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record) |
| 1980 | Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
| 1979 | Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | Zimbabwe adopts constitution |
| 1978 | “Broadway Musical” opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City |
| 1978 | Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder |
| 1976 | 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins |
| 1976 | Patricia R. Harris named secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| 1976 | U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 – Year of Child |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1975 | “Hello, Dolly” closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 51 performances |
| 1975 | “Very Good Eddie” opens at Booth Theater New York City for 307 performances |
| 1975 | 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) |
| 1975 | 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2) |
| 1975 | Madagascar adopts constitution |
| 1975 | Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57 |
| 1973 | Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, U.S. and U.S.S.R. meet in Geneva |
| 1972 | Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany |
| 1971 | U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General |
| 1970 | WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme on theEd Sullivan Show |
| 1969 | Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing |
| 1968 | Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage |
| 1968 | David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash premiere together in California |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum |
| 1962 | Angolin leaves Comecon |
| 1962 | U.S. and Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive |
| 1961 | Beatles record “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “Ready Teddy” |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda |
| 1959 | 10th largest snowfall in New York City history (13.7″) |
| 1959 | Citizens of Deerfield, Illinois block building of interracial housing |
| 1959 | Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba |
| 1959 | Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988) |
| 1958 | Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France |
| 1957 | Indonesia proclaims end to state of war |
| 1954 | Dr. Sam Sheppard’s wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime) |
| 1953 | KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Broadway Tunnel opens in SF |
| 1952 | WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | “Out of This World” opens at New Century Theater New York City for 157 performances |
| 1950 | Cole Porter’s musical “Out of this World,” premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia |
| 1948 | O’Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O’Neill Place |
| 1948 | State of Eire, formerly Irish Free State, declares its independence |
| 1946 | “If the Shoe Fits” closes at Century Theater New York City after 20 performances |
| 1946 | Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086 |
| 1946 | Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life,” premieres |
| 1946 | Morton Gould’s “Minstrel Show,” premieres in Indianapolis |
| 1945 | “Billion Dollar Baby” opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 219 performances |
| 1945 | Gould/Comden/Green’s “Billion Dollar Baby,” premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Cards’ Marty Marion wins NL MVP |
| 1942 | U.S. Supreme Court declares Nevada separation legal |
| 1941 | Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point |
| 1941 | Chicago bears win the NFL championship |
| 1941 | David Diamond’s 1st Symphony, premieres |
| 1941 | German submarine U-567 sinks |
| 1941 | Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears) |
| 1939 | Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of “Referat IV B” |
| 1937 | 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White) |
| 1937 | O’Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Australia |
| 1936 | Bradman’s 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80 |
| 1933 | Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1933 | Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract |
| 1933 | Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony |
| 1932 | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) |
| 1932 | Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach |
| 1929 | 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx) |
| 1926 | Soccer team DOS Struggle forms |
| 1925 | Eisenstein’s movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow |
| 1925 | Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against New Zealand |
| 1923 | Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation |
| 1921 | Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional |
| 1920 | Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva’s musical “Sally,” premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia |
| 1918 | Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell and Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters and $15,000 |
| 1915 | 10.17″ (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record) |
| 1914 | “Tillie’s Punctured Romance,” 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts |
| 1914 | 1st feature-length silent film comedy, “Tillie’s Punctured Romance” released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin) |
| 1913 | 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World |
| 1912 | Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war |
| 1910 | Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies |
| 1909 | 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) |
| 1909 | Clyde Fitch’ “City,” premieres in New York City |
| 1909 | University of Coopenhagen rejects Cook’s claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
| 1907 | Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget |
| 1900 | Gerhart Hauptmann’s “Michael Kramer,” premieres in Berlin |
| 1898 | Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium |
| 1891 | 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College) |
| 1890 | Pim Mulier 1st and only trip to “Alvesteddetocht” |
| 1866 | Cheyennes, Arapho’s, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre |
| 1864 | General Sherman conquers Savannah |
| 1849 | 1st U.S. skating club formed in Philadelphia |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand) |
| 1829 | 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore |
| 1788 | Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam |
| 1784 | John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State |
| 1762 | James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts |
| 1688 | Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham |
| 1650 | Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht |
| 1620 | Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock |
| 1582 | Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583 |
| 1561 | Archbishop Granvelle installed |
| 1163 | Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods |
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