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- Nov 24 CFL Grey Cup, Taylor Field, Regina: Saskatchewan Roughriders win 4th title; defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 45-23; Roughriders running back Kory Sheets MVP, sets Grey Cup record rushing for 197 yards with 2 TDs
Sports History
Nov 24 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix; his record 9th straight GP victory; record equalling 13th consecutive GP win; 4th straight World Drivers Championship
Film & TV History
Nov 26 Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes
Sports History
Nov 27 Tiger Woods is named PGA Tour's Player of the Year for the 11th time
- Nov 27 Greece becomes the first developed market to be demoted into an emerging market by the MSCI index
Film Release
Nov 27 "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
Film Premiere
Dec 2 "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", 2nd film in the Hobbit series, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Los Angeles
- Dec 4 Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg's first openly gay Prime Minister
- Dec 4 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Las Vegas, Nevada: 4 consecutive titles for Europe after an 11-2 thrashing of US; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)
- Dec 5 52 people are killed and 167 are injured in a militant attack on a defense ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen
Historic Event
Dec 6 Pope Francis gives his ascent to a proposal to create a permanent post on the Pontifical Commission on cases of sin and sexual abuse of minors
Sports History
Dec 9 Mike Ditka's #89 jersey is retired by the Chicago Bears
- Dec 9 MLB pitcher Roy Halladay announces his retirement due to persistent back injury
- Dec 10 Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company
- Dec 10 Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana
- Dec 11 Pope Francis is named Time magazine's person of the year
- Dec 11 20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village
- Dec 12 The United States announces sanctions on the two dozen companies who assisted Iran with their nuclear program
Film & TV History
Dec 14 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is named as one of the 25 Greatest Global Living Indians by NDTV Channel, India
Election of Interest
Dec 15 Michelle Bachelet is re-elected President of Chile
- Dec 15 China successfully lands its moon rover on the moon
- Dec 16 21 people are killed and 20 are injured after a bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, Philippines
- Dec 16 79th Heisman Trophy Award: Jameis Winston, Florida State (QB)
- Dec 17 Australia wins the 3rd test to take win the 2013-14 Ashes test cricket series
Election of Interest
Dec 17 Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term
- Dec 19 81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at London's Apollo Theatre
Film Release
Dec 25 "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, is released
- Dec 27 29 people are killed after a bus plunged off the Huay Tong Bridge, Thailand
- Dec 28 Chris Weidman defeats Anderson Silva to retain the UFC Middleweight Championship
- Dec 28 Early signs of Ebola epidemic: 2 year old child in Guinea dies of an unidentified hemorrhagic fever; mother, sister and grandmother soon follow
- Dec 29 Chaparrastique volcano erupts in El Salvador
- Dec 29 16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia
- Dec 29 Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says barrel bombs on Aleppo have killed 517 people since 15th December
Sports History
Dec 29 7-time world F1 motor racing champion Michael Schumacher suffers a serious head injury in a ski accident in the French Alps; his condition still remains unclear
- Dec 30 15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd, Russia
Sports History
Dec 30 NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Washington Redskins
