Events in History
Events 401 - 444 of 444
Event of Interest
Nov 30 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
Bill Clinton
- Dec 1 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
- Dec 2 Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
- Dec 2 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
- Dec 4 Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
- Dec 4 A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
- Dec 5 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space
- Dec 5 Rafael Caldera elected President of Venezuela
- Dec 5 The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
- Dec 6 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
- Dec 7 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast
- Dec 7 The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
- Dec 8 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
- Dec 8 Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
- Dec 8 Storm hits western Europe, 11 killed in England
- Dec 9 Ivory Coast Premier Ouattara resigns
- Dec 10 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
- Dec 11 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle elected President of Chile
- Dec 12 WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in NYC
- Dec 13 Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
- Dec 13 Dow Jones hits record 3764.43
- Dec 13 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
- Dec 13 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
- Dec 14 Muslim fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria
- Dec 15 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
- Dec 15 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
- Dec 15 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
- Dec 15 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
Event of Interest
Dec 15 British Prime Minister John Major and Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
John Major
- Dec 17 Muslims in Bangladesh call for the murder of feminist Taslima Nasrin
- Dec 17 Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
- Dec 17 Northern Exposure star Barry Corbin falls off his horse
- Dec 18 Kevin Scott skates world record 1K (1:12.54)
- Dec 26 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
- Dec 27 Dow-Jones hits record 3792.93
- Dec 28 Dow-Jones hits record 3793.49
- Dec 28 Dutch Antilles government of Yandi Paula forms
- Dec 29 Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
- Dec 30 Vatican recognizes Israel
Deaths in History
Deaths 401 - 405 of 405
- Dec 30 Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (Contribution to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay), dies at 86
- Dec 31 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80
- Dec 31 Thomas J. Watson Jr., American businessman and politician (President of IBM, 1952-1971, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1979-1981), dies of a stroke at 79
- Dec 31 Zviad Gamsachurdia, President of Georgia SSR (1991-1993), suicide at 54
- Dec 31 Brandon Teena, American trans man and hate crime victim, murdered at 21