December in History
Browse 472 historical entries across all 31 days of December — including 157 events, 158 births, and 157 deaths.
Calendar Dates in December
End of Reforms in Socialist Republic of Croatia
Rosa Parks arrested
Mary Robinson becomes first female President of Ireland
Led Zeppelin disbands
Great Smog of London begins
Montreal Massacre
Noam Chomsky born
DeMario Douglas
Mumia Abu-Jamal arrested for murder
Raúl Alfonsín becomes President of Argentina
Yalitza Aparicio
Tumaco earthquake and tsunami
IRA firefight in County Fermanagh
DK Metcalf
Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death
Bangladesh Liberation War ends
First successful airplane flight
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Premiere
Aeroflot Flight 101/435 hijacked
MV Doña Paz disaster
Antonov An-225 Mriya makes first flight
Hussein Farrah Aidid Relinquishes Title
Tokyo Tower Opens
Washington, D.C. Home Rule Granted
Isaac Newton born
Colby Cave
Mads Juel Andersen
Dylan Cease
Richard Feynman's Nanotechnology Speech
Ryan Tunnicliffe
Euro Exchange Rates Frozen
Browse All Months
December Through the Ages
The current DayFacts collection contains 472 historical entries across all 31 calendar dates in December. These entries include events, births, and deaths from the periods represented in the dataset; they are not a complete history of the month.
Browse each date above to see the entries currently recorded, or use the month navigation to move through the calendar.