1998
The government of Turkey collapsed after losing a no-confidence motion over allegations of corruption.
1998
Death of Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian .
1984
36 musicians gathered in London to record Band Aids Do They Know Its Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia
1983
Death of Anton Dolin, British ballet dancer and choreographer .
1969
British musician John Lennon returned his MBE to protest against British involvement in Biafra, and the Vietnam war
1968
Death of Upton Sinclair, American writer .
1959
Death of Gérard Philipe, popular French actor, star of stage and screen
1958
French Sudan (now Mali) became an autonomous self-governing republic within the French Community.
1949
Death of Bojangles (Bill Robinson), American soft-shoe and tap-dancer and entertainer, star of black musical comedies, vaudeville and films
1867
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
Norway
1783
American Revolutionary War: The last British troops left New York City .
1758
French and Indian War: The British captured Fort Duquesne, Pennsylvania.
1609
Birth of Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, French wife of Charles I of England