2020
New Orleans running back Alvin Kamara equals Ernie Nevers 1929 NFL record of 6 touchdowns in a match.
1991
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.
1989
Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed following a popular uprising.
1957
Richard Starkey (later better known as Ringo Starr) receives his first drum set
1741
Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces Centigrade temperature scale.
1635
Samuel de Champlain dies at Quebec, age 68.
0352
1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th