- 54 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances.[1]
- 409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyrenees and appear in Hispania.
- 1269 – The present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
- 1307 – Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are arrested at dawn by King Phillip the Fair, and later confess under torture to heresy.
- 1332 – Rinchinbal Khan becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
- 1399 – Coronation of Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey.[2][3]
- 1644 – A Swedish–Dutch fleet defeats the Danish fleet at Fehmarn and captures about 1,000 prisoners.
- 1710 – Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.
- 1775 – The Continental Congress establishes the Continental Navy (predecessor of the United States Navy).
- 1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
- 1793 – French Revolutionary Wars: Austro-Prussian victory over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg.
- 1812 – War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock’s British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer’s United States forces.
- 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
- 1843 – In New York City, B’nai B’rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
- 1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
- 1884 – The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
- 1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1892 – Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
- 1903 – The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
- 1908 – Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.[4]
- 1911 – Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
- 1915 – First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
- 1917 – The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
- 1921 – Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
- 1923 – Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
- 1943 – World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
- 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
- 1946 – France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
- 1962 – The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds above 150 mph. Forty-six people die.
- 1972 – Aeroflot Flight 217 crashes outside Moscow, killing 174.
- 1972 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on December 23.[5]
- 1976 – The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
- 1977 – Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
- 1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
- 1990 – Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
- 2010 – The mining accident in Copiapó, Chile ends as all 33 trapped miners arrive at the surface after a record 69 days underground.
- 2013 – A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110.
- 2016 – The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 2019 – Kenyan Brigid Kosgei sets a new world record for a woman runner with a time of 2:14:04 at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.[6]
-Source: wikipedia
