1989 - PLO leader Yasser Arafat was refused a visa to enter the United States in order to address the U.N. General Assebly in New York City.

2005 - The White House released a document titled "Our National Strategy for Victory in Iraq." The document accompanied an address by U.S. President George Bush.






"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
 
0306 - St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0722 - Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop
1215 - Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen
1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1523 - Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
1554 - England reconciles with Pope Julius III
1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1648 - English army captures King Charles I
1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar
1700 - Turkey declares war on Russia
1700 - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva [NS]
1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
1735 - States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
1747 - Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women
1753 - Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny
1776 - Capt Cook begins 3rd and last trip to Pacific (South Sea)
1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1787 - Spanish governor leaves Philippines
1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
1813 - Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
1838 - Mexico declares war on France
1861 - Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"
1863 - Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
1864 - Battle of Franklin Tenn: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities
1864 - Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded
1866 - Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1872 - 1st intl soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
1885 - Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)
1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1887 - 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
1891 - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published
1900 - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1907 - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1912 - 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
1915 - St John Ervine's "John Ferguson," premieres in Dublin
1922 - 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
1922 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich
1923 - Dutch Catholic minority govt of Wilhelm Marx forms
1924 - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1924 - Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied
1928 - Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 and 1 vs England
1929 - 17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3
1931 - Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire
1931 - His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1933 - CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District
1936 - London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1937 - 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
1938 - Fascist coup in Romania, fails
1938 - Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1939 - USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
1939 - Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7," premieres in NYC
1939 - 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton)
1940 - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
1940 - 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)
1940 - Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz
1941 - 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run
1941 - 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton)
1941 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano
1942 - German scout ship Altmark explode and sinks off Yokohama
1942 - Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
1942 - 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5
1942 - 109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton)
1942 - -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
1944 - Biggest and last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground
1945 - 33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0
1946 - Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba
1947 - Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1947 - Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine
1948 - Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 - Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP
1948 - Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 - KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1950 - US Pres Truman threatens China with atom bomb
1952 - Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism
1953 - French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
1954 - John Str˜dom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa
1954 - 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB)
1954 - 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
1955 - "Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances
1955 - Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
1956 - Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1956 - 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News)
1957 - "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 413 performances
1957 - 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7
1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8
1958 - WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 - 1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1959 - Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1960 - French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1960 - Tad Mosels "All the Way Home," premieres in NYC
1961 - USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
1961 - Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
1962 - U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
1963 - 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10
1963 - Martin Walser's "šberlebensgross Herr Krott," premieres in Stuttgart
1964 - USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1966 - Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1967 - Sen Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency
1967 - People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
1967 - People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from UK
1967 - Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 - Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1967 - Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains independence
1968 - 56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21
1969 - 57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11
1969 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1970 - George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"
1971 - TV movie "Brian's Song," airs for 1st time on ABC-TV
1972 - BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"
1972 - Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
1973 - M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44
1974 - Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia)
1974 - Miss Teenage America Pageant
1974 - 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
1974 - "Mack and Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances
1974 - "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances
1975 - Dahomey becomes Benin
1976 - 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB)
1978 - France performs nuclear test
1979 - Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum
1980 - "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 perfs
1980 - "Perfectly Frank" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 16 performances
1980 - "Banjo Dancing" closes at Century Theater NYC after 38 performances
1981 - NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award
1981 - Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
1981 - South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested
1981 - Yankees Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test
1982 - US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea
1982 - STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
1983 - Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record
1983 - Sam Shepards "Fool for love," premieres in NYC
1983 - Ra£l Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election
1983 - Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1983 - Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
1983 - 6th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1986 - "Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1986 - 74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15
1986 - Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
1987 - Afghanistan Constitution adopted
1988 - UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
1988 - Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
1988 - NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
1988 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1988 - Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1990 - Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1990 - Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
1991 - 1st world championship of women's soccer, US defeats Norway 2-1
1991 - 93 cars and 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 - Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1991 - San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles
1992 - Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
1992 - David Boon's 14th Test Cricket century, 111 v WI at Brisbane
1993 - NFL announces 30th franchise - Jacksonville Jaguars
1993 - President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1994 - Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at BBC," is released in Britain
1994 - Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
1994 - Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
1997 - "Eugene Onegin," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - 86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps US in Gothenburg (5-0)





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