1135 - Coronation of King Stephen of England.
1481 - Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht.
1790 - Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution.
1793 - Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeat Austria.
1799 - Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
1871 - Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
1898 - Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1944 - World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
1966 - The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
1982 - Time's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer.
1996 - Start of the largest strike in South Korean history.
1998 - Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British war planes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
2004 - Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
Famous Birthdays
1194 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
1771 - Julie Clary, Queen consort of Naples
1893 - Mao Zedong, military leader and founding father of the People's Republic of China
1921 - Steve Allen, television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer
1939 - Phil Spector, music producer
1953 - Leonel Fernández, current President of the Dominican Republic
1957 - Dermot Murnaghan, broadcaster
1963 - Lars Ulrich, drummer
1984 - Leonardo Ghiraldini, rugby player
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