1905 – In France, a law separating church and state is passed.

1946 – The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.

1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (with rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

1980 – John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.

2013 – Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.

2019 – First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.

 lovehonk wrote:

Yup just like your 8 personalities here. No peace here while you goose step all over a peaceful forum.  Thats why the world can’t know peace. Hide behind your keyboard and causing problems.

 GeneP59 wrote:

Oh my gosh, what an off-verse kind of reaction. No wonder the world can't know peace.

 mannixj wrote:
Fuck off you troll. Seems like your nationalism started 2 world wars.
My dad was training the underground and killing Germans in WWII in France. Sorry he missed your immediate family. 

 GeneP59 wrote:
If I may ask:
Did any of you two's relatives get hurt there or even worse? Or is it just that ole nationalism which some of you have been known for to the world?
I have plenty of fallen soldiers & kin in my family.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)

1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.

1995 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor to treat HIV/AIDS. Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fall from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.

1969 – Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.

1971 – During a concert by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at the Montreux Casino, an audience member fires a flare gun into the ceiling, causing a fire that destroys the venue. The incident served as the inspiration for Deep Purple's 1973 song Smoke on the Water.

1956 – The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.

1997 – In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.

1992 – A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.

1938 – Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property forcing Jews to sell real property, businesses, and stocks at below market value as part of Aryanization.

1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.