Events in History
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- 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 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
- Dec 5 British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie appears in public for 1st time in 2 years after Iran called for his assassination
- Dec 5 Iraq announces willingness to speak with US about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis
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 parliment endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages
- Dec 8 Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
- 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 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 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
- Dec 14 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
- Dec 16 Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
- Dec 16 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
- Dec 16 Rev Jean Betrand Aristide elected president of Haiti
- 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
- Dec 20 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
- 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
- Dec 23 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
- Dec 24 Saddam Hussein says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
- Dec 28 2 die and 188 injured in a NYC subway electrical fire in tunnel near Clark Street, Brooklyn
- Dec 30 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
- Dec 31 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
- Dec 31 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace