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Saddam Hussein is seen in this file image from television Sunday Dec. 142003 soon after his capture near TiktitIraq. (AP Photo/US Military via APTN)

December 13

2003: Saddam Hussein captured in Iraq

1937: Hundreds of thousands killed in Nanjing Massacre
2000: Bush claims presidential victoryGore concedes
2007: Mitchell Report names MLB steroid users

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling released in WashingtonTuesday nightDec. 122000is displayed outside the court. (AP Photo/Hillery Smith Garrison)

December 12

2000: Supreme Court issues Bush v. Gore decision

1870: First Black lawmaker sworn into U.S. House
2015: Global agreement on climate change finalized
2018: Michael Cohen sentenced to prison

The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpsona twice-divorced Americanpose at the Chateau de Candenear ToursFranceon April 14,1937. As Edward VIIIKing of England since Jan. 201936the Duke abdicated the throne when his proposed marriage to Simpson could not be reconciled with his role as head of the Church of England. Simpson became the Duchess of Windsor when they married near ToursFranceon June 31937. (AP Photo)

December 11

1936: King Edward VIII abdicates British throne

1978: Nearly $6 million stolen in ‘Lufthansa Heist’
1980: Environmental ‘Superfund’ created
2008: Madoff arrested for Ponzi scheme

In this 1904 file photoTheodore Roosevelt campaigns for the presidency in 1904. Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating peace in the 1904-5 war between Russia and Japan. (AP Photo)

December 10

1906: Teddy Roosevelt first American to win Nobel Prize

1898: Treaty ends Spanish-American War
1964: MLK receives Nobel Peace Prize
1967: Otis Redding killed in plane crash

In this April 141947 file photoa long line winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New Yorkwhere doctors are inoculating against smallpox. (AP Photo/File)

December 09

1979: Smallpox declared to be eradicated

1965: ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ premieres
1990: Lech Walesa wins historic election
2008: Rod Blagojevich arrested

Declaring Japan guilty of a dastardly unprovoked attackPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare warDec. 81941. Listening are Vice President Henry Wallaceleftand House Speaker Sam Rayburn. (AP Photo)

December 08

1941: U.S. enters World War II

1980: John Lennon shotkilled
2016: John Glenn dies at 95
2022: Brittney Griner freed in prisoner exchange

In this Dec. 71941 file photosmoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl HarborHawaii. (AP File Photo)

December 07

1941: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

1972: Apollo 17 launches
1982: First U.S. execution by lethal injection
1993: Mass shooting on Long Island Rail Road

The signature of President Abraham Lincoln is seen on the 13th Amendment in a display at the Tennessee State Museum on MondayFeb. 112013in NashvilleTenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

December 06

1865: Thirteenth Amendment ratifiedabolishing slavery

1907: Worst U.S. mining disaster
1969: Four die at Rolling Stones Altamont concert
1998: Chavez wins Venezuelan presidency

In thisSaturdayMay 92009 file photoSouth Africa's former President Nelson Mandela smiles as newly appointed President Jacob Zuma makes his speech during his inauguration in PretoriaSouth Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

December 05

2013: Nelson Mandela dies at 95

1848: Polk speech sparks California gold rush
1933: 21st Amendment ratifiedending prohibition
1994: Gingrich selected first GOP Speaker in 40 years

Former hostage Terry Anderson is shown at a news conference in the Syrian Foreign Ministry in Damascusafter his release on December 41991. (AP Photo/Greg English)

December 04

1991: Terry Anderson freed after nearly seven years as hostage

1783: Washington bids farewell to Army officers
1956: ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ meets in Memphis
1969: Black Panther Party leader killed in raid

In this Dec. 51984 file phototwo men carry to a hospital children blinded by the Union Carbide chemical pesticide leak in BhopalIndia. (AP Photo/Sondeep Shankar)

December 03

1984: Toxic gas leak kills thousands in Bhopal

1967: First human heart transplant
1979: 11 killed at Cincinnati concert
1989: Cold War’s symbolic end at Malta conference

This is the Jarvik 7 artificial heartthe same one implanted in Dr. Barney Clark in Dec. 1982 at Utah University Medical Centershown Dec. 81982. (AP Photo)

December 02

1982: First artificial heart implanted

1804: Napoleon crowns himself emperor
1859: John Brown hanged
1954: Senate condemns Joseph McCarthy

This an undated photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on Dec. 11955and ignited the boycott that led to a federal court ruling against segregation in public transportation. (AP Photo/Daily Advertiser)

December 01

1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat

1965: First Cuban ‘Freedom Flight’ lands in Miami
1969: First military draft lottery since WWII
1991: Ukraine votes for independence

A World Trade Organization protester stands among flaming trash bins during protests in downtown Seattle TuesdayNov. 301999. Police in riot gear fired red pepper spray in plastic pellets at demonstrators who blocked streets and forced a delay in opening ceremonies of the largest trade event ever staged in the United States. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

November 30

1999: WTO protesters and police clash in Seattle

1993: Clinton signs Brady Bill
2013: Actor Paul Walker killed in car crash
2018: George H.W. Bush dies at 94

In this Dec. 272019photoan entrance sign is shown at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in EadsColo. This quiet piece of land tucked away in rural southeastern Colorado seeks to honor the 230 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho tribe members who were slaughtered by the U.S. Army in 1864. It was one of worst mass murders in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

November 29

1864: The Sand Creek Massacre

1929: Byrd first to fly over South Pole
1981: Natalie Wood dies at 43
2018: Michael Cohen pleads guilty

This Nov. 1943 file photo shows Roy Acuffsecond from leftperforming with the Smoky Mountain Boys at the Grand Ole Opry in NashvilleTenn. From left are Lonnie WilsonAcuffJimmy RiddlePete Kirbyand Velma Williamspartially hidden behind Kirby. (AP Photo)

November 28

1925: Debut of the Grand Ole Opry

1942: Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire
1961: Ernie Davis becomes first Black Heisman winner
2001: Enron collapses after takeover deal fails

More than 25,000 persons jammed the park and streets around San Francisco's City HallNov. 281978 in a spontaneous demonstration of grief for slain Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. The two city officials were gunned down in their offices at city hall Monday morning. The candle carrying crowd listened to talks by acting Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Police Chief Charles Gain and songs by Joan Baez. (AP Photo)

November 27

1978: Harvey Milk and George Moscone fatally shot

1924: Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade
1970: Pope Paul VI attacked in Manila
2003: Bush takes secret Thanksgiving trip to Iraq

In this WednesdayNov. 262008 file photodebris lies scattered in the street at the site of a blast in Colabaa market in downtown MumbaiIndiaone of several attacks throughout the city. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)

November 26

2008: Mumbai terror attacks

1917: National Hockey League founded
1942: ‘Casablanca’ premieres in New York
2000: Florida certifies Bush election victory

A general view outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in WashingtonD.C.during President John F. Kennedy's funeralwith flag-draped coffin in the foregroundNov. 251963. The president's brothers can be seen behind the casket. At left is Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)and at right entering limousine is Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. (AP Photo)

November 25

1963: John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington

1986: Revelation in Iran-Contra Affair
1999: Elian Gonzalez rescued at sea
2016: Fidel Castro dies at 90

Lee Harvey Oswaldassassin of President John F. Kennedyreacts as Dallas night club owner Jack Rubyforegroundshoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas police headquartersNov. 241963. (AP Photo/Dallas Times-HeraldBob Jackson)

November 24

1963: Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

1859: Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ published
1971: D.B. Cooper hijacks planeescapes with ransom
1974: ‘Lucy’ discovered in Ethiopia

Quarterback Doug Flutie (22) of Boston College evades defensive tackle Kevin Fagan of the University of Miami as he looks to pass during first quarter action at the Orange Bowl in MiamiFla.Nov. 231984. (AP Photo/Joe Skipper)

November 23

1984: Doug Flutie’s ‘Hail Mary’ beats Miami

1963: LBJ declares day of mourning
2005: Historic election in Liberia
2008: Citigroup gets government bailout

In this Nov. 221963 file photoPresident John F. Kennedy waves from his car in a motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas. Riding with Kennedy are First Lady Jacqueline KennedyrightNellie Connallysecond from leftand her husbandTexas Gov. John Connallyfar left. (AP Photo/Jim AltgensFile)

November 22

1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas

1986: Tyson becomes youngest heavyweight champ
1990: Margaret Thatcher resigns
2005: Merkel takes power in Germany

A fire burns at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Nov. 211980. (AP Photo)

November 21

1980: Las Vegas hotel fire claims 85 lives

1920: Dublin’s ‘Bloody Sunday’
1980: TV viewers find out ‘Who shot J.R.?’
1995: Dayton peace agreement finalized

Soldiers re-enact a revolution battle as part of Mexican Revolution 101st anniversary celebrations in Mexico City's Zocalo plazaSunday Nov. 202011. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

November 20

1910: The Mexican Revolution begins

1945: WWII Nuremberg trials begin
1982: Cal beats Stanford with ‘The Play’
1992: Windsor Castle damaged by fire

This undated illustration depicts President Abraham Lincoln making his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on the battlefield at GettysburgPa.Nov. 191863. (AP Photo)

November 19

1863: Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

1969: Apollo 12 lands on moon
2004: NBA’s ‘Malice at the Palace’
2022: Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub shooting

Peoples Temple compoundmass suicide cult led by Jim Jonesafter bodies were removed at JonestownGuyana in 1978. (AP Photo)

November 18

1978: Over 900 die at Jonestown

1928: Mickey Mouse cartoon debuts
1999: Texas bonfire tragedy
2021: Exonerations in Malcolm X killing

New York Jets' quarterback Joe Namath (12) sweeps around the right side past Oakland defenders Ralph Oliver (56) and Dan Conners (55) to score from the one-yard line during the second quarter against the Oakland RaidersNov. 171968 at the Oakland Coliseum in Calif. This was the infamous game that was pre-empted for the children's movie "Heidi". The Jets led 32-29 with less than a minute left when NBC went to a commercial and never came back. "Heidi'' began and football fans missed the Raiders scoring two touchdowns to win the game (AP Photo)

November 17

1968: the NFL’s infamous “Heidi Game”

1973: Nixon tells AP: ‘I’m not a crook’
1989: Czech ‘Velvet Revolution’
2003: Schwarzenegger sworn in as governor

The Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline snakes across the Alaska tundra under the Brooks Range about 150 miles from Prudhoe BayAlaska Tuesday Aug. 282001 carrying North Slope crude oil about 800 miles to ValdezAlaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)

November 16

1973: Nixon authorizes Alaska pipeline

1988: Bhutto elected to lead Pakistan
1989: Jesuit priests slain in El Salvador
2001: First ‘Harry Potter’ film debuts

Gen. William T. Sherman inspects battlements at Atlanta in 1864 prior to his March to the Sea during the American Civil War. After his capture of AtlantaSherman went on to capture Savannah and divide the Confederate States of America. (AP Photo)

November 15

1864: Union troops begin ‘Sherman’s March’

1966: Gemini 12 splashes down safely
2012: Record fine levied in Deepwater Horizon oil spill
2022: World population reaches 8 billion

In this Nov. 151970file photoa fireman looks over the wreckage of a DC-9 jet in KenovaW.Vathat was carrying the Marshall University football team. (AP Photo)

November 14

1970: Marshall University football team killed in plane crash

1940: German bombing destroys much of Coventry
1960: New Orleans school desegregation
1993: Shula becomes NFL’s winningest coach

A man pays respect to the victims of the attacks next to a sign reading "We Are Not Afraid" at Place de la Republique (Republic Square) in ParisSaturdayNov. 142015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

November 13

2015: 130 die in Paris terror attacks

1775: American troops capture Montreal
1971: Mariner 9 orbits Mars
1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated

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