On this day in 1240, Mongols under Batu Khan occupied and destroy Kiev (in present day Ukraine). In 1749 on this day, French-Canadian explorer La Verendrye died at the age of 64, while planning another expedition searching for a Northwest Passage. Austria became the first nation to introduce a state education system on this day in 1774. Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland for the second and final time on this day in 1849. In 1862 on this day, American President Lincoln ordered the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux Native Americans. On this day in 1884, the Washington Monument was completed. The Great Halifax Explosion occurred on this day in 1917, when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, exploded 20 minutes after colliding with another vessel. It is described as having been the most devastating manmade explosion of the pre-atomic age. On this day in 1929, Turkey introduced female suffrage. In 1941 on this day, apparently believing that Japanese planes were on their way to attacking Thailand and not the United States, Roosevelt urged the Japanese emperor to "prevent further death and destruction." The next day, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. In 1969 on this day, the disastrous Altamont Festival, which was supposed to be a western version of Woodsock, instead resulted in violence. Many people feel that it effectively bought an end to the activism and peace-loving 1960's. On this day in 1987, there were protests against Soviet treatment of Jews which took place in Washington and Moscow.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
• 963 - Leo VIII elected Pope 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary
• 1160 - Jean Bodels "Jeu de St Nicholas" premieres in Arras
• 1196 - Northern Dutch coast flooded, "Saint-Nicolas Flood"
• 1240 - Mongols under Batu Khan occupy & destroy Kiev
• 1424 - Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews
• 1527 - Pope Clemens VII fleas to Orvieto
• 1534 - Quito, Ecuador, founded by Spanish
• 1631 - 1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
• 1641 - Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
• 1648 - Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament
• 1723 - Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution
• 1732 - 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
• 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
• French Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye died on this day in 1749.
Dec 6, 1749: French-Canadian explorer La Verendrye dies
In the midst of planning another expedition to search for the elusive Northwest Passage, French-Canadian explorer La Verendrye dies at the age of sixty-four in Montreal, Canada.
Born in 1685 in the small frontier town of Trois-Rivieres, New France (now the Canadian province of Quebec), La Verendrye exhibited an adventurous spirit from an early age. When he was only 12 years old, he joined in the French-Indian raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, and then sailed across the Atlantic to fight for France in the War of the Spanish Succession. After spending time as a soldier, he returned to New France, and in 1726, he became a fur trader in the frontier region north of Lake Superior.
Native Americans in the area told La Verendrye stories of a great river that flowed out of the West—they were speaking of the river we now know as the Missouri. None of the Native Americans had ever followed the river all the way to the headwaters, but they heard it led to a giant western ocean. La Verendrye realized that if the stories were true, the river could be the hoped—for Northwest Passage to the Pacific.
La Verendrye's exploration was motivated by a desire to discover the secrets of the West, and a financial interest in discovering new sources of furs. He and his sons built up a string of trading posts that probed deep into the unknown western territories. In 1738, armed with several crude maps—given to him by Indians—that supposedly showed the all-water route to the "western sea," La Verendrye reached the Mandan Indian villages along the Missouri River in present-day North Dakota, some sixty years before Lewis and Clark reached the same area. From this base, two of his sons continued westward; it is possible they may have traveled far enough into Montana and Wyoming to see the massive Rocky Mountains in the distance.
Unfortunately, La Verendrye and his sons never found the elusive Northwest Passage, and their failure earned them only scorn from the French authorities in Montreal. This derision was perhaps unfair, since Lewis and Clark discovered in 1805 that the passage for which La Verendrye had been searching did not actually exist, and La Verendrye did deserve credit for opening new areas to French fur traders. Without his exploration, those areas likely would have been claimed by British competitors. At entirely his own expense, La Verendrye pushed farther into the West than any other Frenchman, at least temporarily strengthening French political claims in North America.
Despite the poor treatment he received from French leaders, La Verendrye remained determined to find the coveted path to the western sea. He was 64 years old when he died preparing for another journey of exploration.
• 1756 - British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India
• 1768 - 1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
• 1774 - Austria became the first nation to introduce a state education system.
• 1787 - Laurens Pieter van de Speigel appointed Dutch pension advisor
• 1790 - The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1820 - US president James Monroe re-elected
• 1822 - Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
• 1825 - Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin
British Botanist Charles Darwin
• 1833 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de la Plata
• 1841 - Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D premieres
• 1843 - Amsterdam-Utrecht railway opens
• 1845 - Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is founded at Yale College.
• 1846 - Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
The Statue of Harriet Tubman in Binghamton, New York
• 1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the second and final time
• 1862 - Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
• 1864 - Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
• The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified on this day in 1865, officially abolishing slavery.
• 1866 - Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed 1870 - Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC) 1873 - 1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1 1875 - 44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
• 1876 - 1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
• 1876 - City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
• 1876 - US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
• On this day in 1877, inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone recording sound, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
• 1877 - Washington Post publishes 1st edition
• 1882 - Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
• In 1884 -on this day, an aluminum capstone was set atop the Washington Monument in Washington, DC, marking an end to the construction, which was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers. The project had taken 34 years.
Dec 6, 1884: Washington Monument completed
On this day in 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid atop a tower of white marble, completing the construction of an impressive monument to the city's namesake and the nation's first president, George Washington. As early as 1783, the infant U.S. Congress decided that a statue of George Washington, the great Revolutionary War general, should be placed near the site of the new Congressional building, wherever it might be. After then-President Washington asked him to lay out a new federal capital on the Potomac River in 1791, architect Pierre L'Enfant left a place for the statue at the western end of the sweeping National Mall (near the monument's present location).
It wasn't until 1832, however--33 years after Washington's death--that anyone really did anything about the monument. That year, a private Washington National Monument Society was formed. After holding a design competition and choosing an elaborate Greek temple-like design by architect Robert Mills, the society began a fundraising drive to raise money for the statue's construction. These efforts--including appeals to the nation's schoolchildren--raised some $230,000, far short of the $1 million needed. Construction began anyway, on July 4, 1848, as representatives of the society laid the cornerstone of the monument: a 24,500-pound block of pure white marble.
Six years later, with funds running low, construction was halted. Around the time the Civil War began in 1861, author Mark Twain described the unfinished monument as looking like a "hollow, oversized chimney." No further progress was made until 1876--the centennial of American independence--when President Ulysses S. Grant authorized construction to be completed.
Made of some 36,000 blocks of marble and granite stacked 555 feet in the air, the monument was the tallest structure in the world at the time of its completion in December 1884. In the six months following the dedication ceremony, over 10,000 people climbed the nearly 900 steps to the top of the Washington Monument. Today, an elevator makes the trip far easier, and more than 800,000 people visit the monument each year. A city law passed in 1910 restricted the height of new buildings to ensure that the monument will remain the tallest structure in Washington, D.C.--a fitting tribute to the man known as the "Father of His Country."
1884 Washington Monument completed HISTORY.com Editors NurPhoto via Getty Images Published: November 24, 2009 Last Updated: December 03, 2025:
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1896 - D T Suzuki found the awakening at Engakuji temple, in Kamakura 1897 - London becomes the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs. 1903 - Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders
• 1904 - Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary) 1907 - Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
• 1912 - China votes for universal human rights 1913 - White Sox beat Giants 9-4 in exhibition game in Tokyo
• 1914 - German troops over run Lodz 1916 - German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
• 1916 - World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest. 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt26th US President Theodore Roosevelt
• 1917 - Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
• 1917 - French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
Dec 6, 1917: The Great Halifax Explosion
At 9:05 a.m., in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the pre-atomic age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes 20 minutes after colliding with another vessel.
As World War I raged in Europe, the port city of Halifax bustled with ships carrying troops, relief supplies, and munitions across the Atlantic Ocean. On the morning of December 6, the Norwegian vessel Imo left its mooring in Halifax harbor for New York City. At the same time, the French freighter Mont Blanc, its cargo hold packed with highly explosive munitions--2,300 tons of picric acid, 200 tons of TNT, 35 tons of high-octane gasoline, and 10 tons of gun cotton--was forging through the harbor's narrows to join a military convoy that would escort it across the Atlantic.
At approximately 8:45 a.m., the two ships collided, setting the picric acid ablaze. The Mont Blanc was propelled toward the shore by its collision with the Imo, and the crew rapidly abandoned the ship, attempting without success to alert the harbor of the peril of the burning ship. Spectators gathered along the waterfront to witness the spectacle of the blazing ship, and minutes later it brushed by a harbor pier, setting it ablaze. The Halifax Fire Department responded quickly and was positioning its engine next to the nearest hydrant when the Mont Blanc exploded at 9:05 a.m. in a blinding white flash. The massive explosion killed more than 1,800 people, injured another 9,000--including blinding 200--and destroyed almost the entire north end of the city of Halifax, including more than 1,600 homes. The resulting shock wave shattered windows 50 miles away, and the sound of the explosion could be heard hundreds of miles away.
Dec 6, 1917: The Great Halifax Explosion by HISTORY.com Editors Published: July 20, 2010 Last Updated: May 27, 2025:
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1921 - Anglo-Irish Treaty signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland 1922 - 1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation 1922 - 1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY 1923 - 1st US Presidential address broadcast on radio by President Calvin Coolidge 1925 - Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy) 1925 - Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7 1929 - Turkey introduces female suffrage 1930 - 18th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeat Regina Roughriders, 11-6 1933 - Ban on James Joyce' "Ulysses" in US lifted 1938 - 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
• 1938 - French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) 1939 - 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB) 1939 - Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady" premieres in NYC Novelist & Poet James JoyceNovelist & Poet James Joyce
• 1940 - Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst
1940 - Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia
1941 - Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
Dec 6, 1941: Roosevelt to Japanese emperor: "Prevent further death and destruction"
On this day, President Roosevelt—convinced on the basis of intelligence reports that the Japanese fleet is headed for Thailand, not the United States—telegrams Emperor Hirohito with the request that "for the sake of humanity," the emperor intervene "to prevent further death and destruction in the world."
The Royal Australian Air Force had sighted Japanese escorts, cruisers, and destroyers on patrol near the Malayan coast, south of Cape Cambodia. An Aussie pilot managed to radio that it looked as if the Japanese warships were headed for Thailand—just before he was shot down by the Japanese. Back in England, Prime Minister Churchill called a meeting of his chiefs of staff to discuss the crisis. While reports were coming in describing Thailand as the Japanese destination, they began to question whether it could have been a diversion. British intelligence had intercepted the Japanese code "Raffles," a warning to the Japanese fleet to be on alert—but for what?
Britain was already preparing Operation Matador, the launching of their 11th Indian Division into Thailand to meet the presumed Japanese invasion force. But at the last minute, Air Marshall Brooke-Popham received word not to cross the Thai border for fear that it would provoke a Japanese attack if, in fact, the warship movement was merely a bluff.
Meanwhile, 600 miles northwest of Hawaii, Admiral Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese fleet, announced to his men: "The rise or fall of the empire depends upon this battle. Everyone will do his duty with utmost efforts." Thailand was, in fact, a bluff. Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii was confirmed for Yamamoto as the Japanese target, after the Japanese consul in Hawaii had reported to Tokyo that a significant portion of the U.S. Pacific fleet would be anchored in the harbor—sitting ducks. The following morning, Sunday, December 7, was a good day to begin a raid.
"The son of man has just sent his final message to the son of God," FDR joked to Eleanor after sending off his telegram to Hirohito, who in the Shinto tradition of Japan was deemed a god. As he enjoyed his stamp collection and chatted with Harry Hopkins, his personal adviser, news reached him of Japan's formal rejection of America's 10-point proposals for peace and an end to economic sanctions and the oil embargo placed on the Axis power. "This means war," the president declared. Hopkins recommended an American first strike. "No, we can't do that," Roosevelt countered. "We are a democracy and a peaceful people."
Dec 6, 1941: Roosevelt to Japanese emperor: "Prevent further death and destruction" by HISTORY.com Editors Published: November 16, 2009 Last Updated: May 28, 2025:
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1941 - NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
1942 - Queen Wilhelmina announces Dutch Commonwealth 1942 - RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) 1944 - US 95th Infantry division reaches Westwall
• 1947 - The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
• 1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mirabile illud
• 1952 - Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata 1953 - Brown's Lou "Toe" Groza kicks 8 PATs, beating Giants 62-14 1954 - Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt 1955 - NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing 1956 - "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 413 performances
• 1956 - Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Africa Anti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson MandelaAnti-apartheid activist and South African President Nelson Mandela
• 1957 - 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up 1957 - AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) 1957 - Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions 1958 - US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back 1960 - AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels 1961 - 27th Heisman Trophy Award: Ernie Davis, Syracuse (HB)
• 1962 - US abandons Skybolt balistic missile program
• 1963 - Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
1963 - Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba 1964 - "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV 1964 - KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 - President Segni of Italy resigns 1965 - 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
• 1965 - Pakistan's Islamic Ideology Advisory Committee recommends that Islamic Studies be made a compulsory subject for Muslim students from primary to graduate level. 1966 - Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR 1968 - Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years 1968 - PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn 1968 - WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast 1969 - "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 7 performances
1969 - 300,000 attend Altamont California, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
Dec 6, 1969: The Altamont Festival brings the 1960s to a violent end
In August 1969, the massive, three-day Woodstock Music & Art Fair had proved that hundreds of thousands of young people could gather peacefully even in a seemingly chaotic environment rich with sex, drugs and rock and roll. Four months later, it would become clear that Woodstock owed its success not to the inherent peacefulness of the 1960s youth culture, but to the organizational acumen of the event's producers. That idea was proven in the violent, uncontrolled chaos of the disastrous Altamont Speedway Free Festival, held on this day in 1969 in the northern California hills 60 miles east of San Francisco.
Altamont was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit. Unlike Woodstock, however, which was the result of months of careful planning by a team of well-funded organizers, Altamont was a largely improvised affair that did not even have a definite venue arranged just days before the event. It was only on Thursday, December 4, 1969, that organizers settled on the Altamont Speedway location for a free concert that was by then scheduled to include Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and the Grateful Dead, all in support of the headlining Stones. The event would also include, infamously, several dozen members the Hells Angels motorcycle gang acting as informal security staff in exchange for $500 worth of beer as a "gratuity." It was dark by the time the concert's next-to-last act, the Grateful Dead, was scheduled to appear. But the Dead had left the venue entirely out of concern for their safety when they learned that Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin had been knocked unconscious by one of the Hells Angels in a melee during his band's performance. It was during the Rolling Stones' set, however, that a 21-year-old Hells Angel named Alan Passaro stabbed a gun-wielding 18-year-old named Meredith Hunter to death just 20 feet in front of the stage where Mick Jagger was performing "Under My Thumb." Unaware of what had just occurred, the Rolling Stones completed their set without further incident, bringing an end to a tumultuous day that also saw three accidental deaths and four live births. The killing of Meredith Hunter at Altamont was captured on film in Gimme Shelter, the documentary of the Stones' 1969 tour by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, which opens with Jagger viewing the footage in an editing room several months later. In the years since, Jagger has not spoken publicly about the killing, for which Passaro was tried but acquitted on grounds of self-defense.
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1969 - USSR performs nuclear test 1970 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106 1971 - Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice 1973 - Bahrain's constitution goes into effect 38th US President Gerald Ford38th US President Gerald Ford 1973 - Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew 1973 - NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen) 1974 - George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" 1975 - 41st Heisman Trophy Award: Archie Griffin, Ohio State (RB) 1975 - Balcombe Street Siege: An IRA Active Service Unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London. 1976 - War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich
• 1977 - South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
1978 - Spain adopts constitution 1980 - Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn 1980 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 502 1981 - Rob de Castella of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:18 1982 - Sen Ted & Joan Kennedy divorce 1982 - 11 soldiers & 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland 1983 - A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis 1984 - France performs nuclear test 1984 - Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage 1986 - 52nd Heisman Trophy Award: Vinny Testaverde, Miami Fla (QB) 1986 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1987 - 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" 1987 - Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
Protests
Dec 6, 1987: Protests against Soviet treatment of Jews take place in Washington and Moscow
On the eve of Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev's arrival in the United States for a summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan, more than 200,000 protesters in Washington, and a much smaller number in Moscow, protest Soviet policies concerning Russian Jews. The protests succeeded in focusing public attention on human rights abuses in Russia but had little impact on the summit.
The agenda for the Gorbachev-Reagan summit largely focused on weapons control issues, particularly the elimination of intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe. The Soviet presence in Afghanistan and support of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua were also topics for discussion. Over 200,000 protesters in Washington attempted to shift the focus to another issue-the Soviet government's treatment of Russian Jews. In particular, they called on the Soviets to allow Jewish emigration from Russia and for an end to Soviet oppression of Jewish dissidents and critics of the Soviet government. In a letter that was read to appease the protesters, President Reagan stated that he would "not be satisfied with less" than the "release of all refuseniks [jailed dissidents] and for complete freedom of religious and cultural expression." A demonstration set to coincide with the protests in Washington was roughly disrupted by Soviet plainclothes police in Moscow. The few dozen protesters had their signs and banners seized and destroyed and some were physically assaulted.
Despite the protests and Reagan's rhetoric, the issue of Soviet human rights abuses played almost no role at the summit. The Soviets insisted that the protesters be ignored and U.S. officials, anxious to get an arms control agreement out of the summit, essentially complied with the Russian requests. A major arms agreement was, in fact, signed during the meeting.
1987 - Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
• 1988 - Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
• 1988 - Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela 1988 - Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose 1988 - Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest) 1988 - Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown 1988 - STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission 1988 - Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Balt Orioles 1989 - Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52 1989 - Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal 1990 - NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning 1990 - Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages 1990 - Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature is sold for $23,100 1991 - "Les Miserables" opens at Circustheater, Scheveningen 1991 - "Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Country" premieres 1992 - 300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die 1992 - 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1) 1992 - Dottie Mochrie/Dan Forsmann wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1992 - SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown 1992 - SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds 1993 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29 1994 - Maltese Falcon auctioned for $398,590 1994 - Orange County California files for bankruptcy 1994 - Warner Brothers announces a 5th TV network to begin on Jan 11, 1995 1995 - 6th Billboard Music Awards King of Pop Michael JacksonKing of Pop Michael Jackson 1995 - Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special 1996 - Mashonaland defeat England in first-class tour match 1998 - JC Penney Golf Classic
• 1998 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela.
• 2001 - The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
• 2005 - Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China. 2006 - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars. 2012 - 7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests 2012 - Typhoon Bopha’s death toll rise to 418 with 318 missing and 179,000 displaced 2012 - A 243 million year old Nyasasaurus fossil is discovered in Tanzania
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