Event of Interest
Dec 1 New York Knicks center Patrick Ewing scores career high 22 field goals in his 50 point haul in 113-96 win v Charlotte at Madison Square Garden
Patrick Ewing
- Dec 1 55th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 16-7 in Birmingham
- Dec 2 First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
- Dec 2 First time 12 people in space at the same time
- Dec 2 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
- Dec 4 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
- Dec 4 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
- Dec 4 An Iraqi official reports that Iraq will withdraw if it can retain control of the Rumailah field and keep Bubiyan and Werbah islands; also says that demands that the Palestinian issue be treated separately would not be surmountable
- Dec 5 Blue Jays trade F McGriff & T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar & J Carter
- Dec 5 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
Event of Interest
Dec 5 British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie appears in public for 1st time in 2 years after Iran called for his assassination
Salman Rushdie
Event of Interest
Dec 6 Saddam Hussein announces release of all foreign hostages
Saddam Hussein
- Dec 6 Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100
- Dec 7 Iraqi Parliament endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages
Engagement of Interest
Dec 7 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
Jane Fonda
Ted Turner
- Dec 8 Spacecraft Galileo flies by Earth at an altitude of 597 miles (960 km) to use the planet's gravity to build speed on its way to Jupiter [1]
- Dec 8 Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
- Dec 9 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
- Dec 9 Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
Election of Interest
Dec 9 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland's 1st direct presidential election in Poland
Lech Wałęsa
- Dec 9 NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
- Dec 9 23rd NAACP Image Awards: "Coming to America" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- Dec 10 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
- Dec 10 Soyuz TM-10 lands
- Dec 10 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
- Dec 11 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
- Dec 11 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
- Dec 12 US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
- Dec 12 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell, leaves Kuwait
- Dec 13 Musical "Peter Pan", starring Cathy Rigby, opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 45 performances
- Dec 13 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
Meeting of Interest
Dec 13 South African President F. W. de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
Nelson Mandela
F. W. de Klerk
- Dec 13 US Secretary of State Baker questions Iraq's seriousness about Middle East peace
Event of Interest
Dec 14 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe" premieres in London
Louis Jordan
- Dec 14 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
- Dec 16 Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
- Dec 16 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
- Dec 17 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
- Dec 18 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Washington, D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
- Dec 18 Bush reiterates his "no concessions" stance against Iraq
- Dec 20 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
- Dec 20 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
Event of Interest
Dec 20 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
Eduard Shevardnadze
- Dec 20 The world's first website and server go live at CERN
- Dec 21 Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
- Dec 22 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
- Dec 22 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
- Dec 22 Lech Wałęsa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
Event of Interest
Dec 22 Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games
Paul Coffey
Event of Interest
Dec 24 Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
Tim Raines
- Dec 24 Saddam Hussein says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
Film Premier
Dec 25 "The Godfather Part III" directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia premieres
- Dec 25 Ballon d'Or: Inter's German sweeper Lothar Matthäus is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus striker Salvatore Schillaci and Inter defender Andreas Brehme
Event of Interest
Dec 26 Garry Kasparov defeats fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov to retain the world chess championship
Garry Kasparov
- Dec 26 Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
- Dec 26 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
- Dec 27 Edmonton Oilers beat the Calgary Flames, 4-1 to record their 500th all-time NHL victory; set in just 915 games for a record of 500-295-120, good for a winning % of .612; best in history upon reaching milestone
- Dec 28 2 die and 188 injured in a NYC subway electrical fire in tunnel near Clark Street, Brooklyn
- Dec 28 Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
- Dec 30 "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
- Dec 30 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
- Dec 31 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
- Dec 31 Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
- Dec 31 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace