536 Having captured Naples earlier in
the year, Belisarius takes Rome.
1861 The U.S. Senate approves
establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the
Conduct of War.
1863 Major General John G. Foster
replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio.
1867 The capital of Colorado Territory
is moved from Golden to Denver.
1872 
P.B.S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American
governor of Louisiana.
1900 The Russian czar rejects Boer
Paul Kruger's pleas for aid in South Africa against the British.
1908 A child labor bill passes in the
German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13.
1917 The new Finnish Republic demands
the withdrawal of Russian troops.
1940 The British army seizes 1,000
Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt.
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt tells
Americans to plan for a long war.
1948 The United States abandons a plan
to de-concentrate industry in Japan.
1949 The United Nations takes
trusteeship over Jerusalem.
1950 President Harry Truman bans U.S.
exports to Communist China.
1950 Harry Gold gets 30 years
imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World
War II.
1955 Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out
Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title.
1960 The Laos government flees to
Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war.
1990 Lech Walesa is elected president
of Poland.
1992 U.S. Marines land in Somalia to
ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country.
2008 Governor of Illinois Rod
Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US
Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
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