Events in History
Events 501 - 552 of 552
- Nov 27 Third Nigerian population census begins
- Nov 30 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die
- Nov 30 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
- Nov 30 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles
- Dec 1 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
- Dec 1 Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
- Dec 1 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
- Dec 1 Ukrainian people vote for independence
- Dec 2 Muslim Shi'ites release American hostage Joseph Cicippio held in Lebanon
- Dec 3 Muslim Shi'ites release US hostage Alan Steen
- Dec 3 White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
- Dec 4 Judds final concert (Nashville)
- Dec 4 Muslim Shi'ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
- Dec 4 Pan American World Airways ceased operations
- Dec 4 Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
- Dec 5 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
- Dec 5 NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
- Dec 7 A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
- Dec 8 Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
- Dec 8 The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
- Dec 10 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
Event of Interest
Dec 10 Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner
- Dec 11 William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
- Dec 12 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
- Dec 12 Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test
- Dec 12 Abuja replaces Lagos as the capital city of Nigeria
- Dec 13 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
- Dec 13 NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
- Dec 14 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed
- Dec 16 UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
- Dec 16 Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- Dec 17 NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
- Dec 17 Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad & Tobago
- Dec 18 General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
- Dec 19 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
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Dec 19 Boris Yeltsin takes control of the Kremlin
Boris Yeltsin
- Dec 20 Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
- Dec 20 A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
- Dec 21 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
- Dec 21 El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
- Dec 21 Soviet Union formally dissolves as 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States
- Dec 23 NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
- Dec 25 Last day of a washout Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
Event of Interest
Dec 25 Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigns as President of USSR in a televised speech
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Dec 28 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
Ted Turner