Today in History - Famous Events for Tomorrow

🏰 On this day in History - December 14, 2025

1901 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium)

1995 AIDS patient Jeff Getty recieves baboon bone marrow transplant

1926 Danish Madsen govt, forms

1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record

1974 Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0

1967 DNA created in a test tube

1863 Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn

1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure

1974 Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 v India 20 fours 6 sixes

1941 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14

1708 Prosper Jolyot's "Electre," premieres in Paris

1987 Allan Border scores 205 v NZ to become Australia's top rungetter

1938 Will Harridge is elected to a 10-year-term as AL president

1956 Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO

1980 Nancy Lopez/Curtis Strange wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

1955 Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic

1935 Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v S Africa, Durban

1889 American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila

1990 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe," premieres in London

1774 Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft William & Mary

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1950 Baseball owners choose Lou Perini (Braves), Phil Wrigley (Cubs), Del Webb (Yankees), & Ellis Ryan (Indians) to select new commissioner

1944 German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland

1930 NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game

1656 Artificial pearls 1st manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales

1985 US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin

0867 Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1947 Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game

1993 Moslem fundamentalists murder 12 Kroates/Bosnians in Algeria

1988 NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses

1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1977 Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, v England at Lahore

1903 Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut

1997 "View From the Bridge," opens at Criterion Theater NYC

1918 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Il Trittico," premieres in NYC

1977 "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in NYC

1977 Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference

1997 Phoenix Coyote Mike Gartner is 5th NHLer to score 700 goals

1952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting

1969 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"

1950 "Bless You All" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 perfs

1980 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1992 Lennox Lewis given WBC title, when Riddick Bowe refused to fight him

1981 Israel annexes Golan Heights (seized from Syria in war of 1967)

1929 Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece

1946 UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC

1977 Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni & cash

1938 AL permits Cleveland & Philadelphia to play night games

1957 "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances

1986 Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, took off from Edwards AFB, Calif on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around world

1953 Brooklyn Dodgers sign pitcher Sandy Koufax

0872 John VIII elected as Catholic Pope

1928 2nd Test Cricket Australia v England starts with Bradman 12th man

1819 Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state

1798 David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine

1977 War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years

1995 "Les Miserables" opens at Cable Hall, Helsinki

1969 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta

1965 "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St Theater NYC for 7 performances

1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1954 WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting

1960 Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms

1997 Diners Club Senior Golf Match

1920 Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1946 "Three to Make Ready" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 323 perfs

1960 Washington Senators joins American League

1988 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures

1959 J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513m

1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1287 Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives

1924 Chiang Kai-shek occupies Hankou

1600 Olivier van Noort sinks Sp galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die

1972 Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor

1582 Zealand/Brabant Neth adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 12/25

1934 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)

1920 Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in NYC

1945 Elmer Rice' "Dream Girl," premieres in NYC

1975 "Treemonisha" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 64 performances

1980 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon

1894 Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren

1963 Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ

1915 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion

1911 South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen

1972 Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon

1946 Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN

1959 Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus

1978 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union

1952 Uprising of captives in Pongam South Korea, 82 die

1849 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)

1975 WCPR (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM

1996 62nd Heisman Trophy Award: Danny Wuerffel, Florida (QB)

1960 Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie

1982 Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals

1793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati

1988 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)

1969 "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance

1964 Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"

1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new

1991 57th Heisman Trophy Award: Desmond Howard, Michigan (WR)

1962 Mariner 2 makes 1st US fly-by of another planet (Venus)

1124 Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II (he refuses)

1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar

1913 Greece formally takes possession of Crete

1894 Day One 1st Test Cricket Aus v Eng Aust 5-346 (Giffen 161, Gregory 85)

1490 Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria

1975 6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days

1941 U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea

1782 Charleston, SC evacuated by British

1944 Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany

1882 Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo

1980 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20

1952 R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut v Pakistan, Calcutta

1933 Josephine Baker performs in Amsterdam

1997 Juli Inkster & Dottie Pepper win LPGA Diners Club Matches

1938 Major leagues agrees on standard ball

1976 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Dutch Liberal/social dem abortion laws

1983 "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 5 performances

0644 Osman ibn Affan appointed 3rd kalief of islam

1924 Respighi's symphony "Pini di Roma," premieres in Paris

1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later

1941 Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York

1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights

1980 Minn Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleve Browns, winning 28-24

1937 Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing

1575 Polish Parliament selects Istv n B thory as king of Poland

1825 Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins

1931 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht

1944 Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)

1923 Gerard K "Simon" van het Reve, Dutch writer (Evenings)

1917 UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany

1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards

1984 Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football

1980 "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck NYC for 1 performance

1957 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 perfs

1932 French govt of Herriot falls

1950 UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)

1991 Ferry boat Salem Express sinks in Red Sea, 476 killed

1938 Major leagues disagree on increasing rosters from 23 to 25

1978 "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances

1927 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain

1980 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot

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