- Dec 1 55th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 16-7 in Birmingham
- Dec 1 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
Latest Wonder of the World
Dec 1 British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel
US Victory
Dec 1 Davis Cup Tennis, St. Petersburg, Florida: Rick Leach and Jim Pugh beat Australian pair Pat Cash and John Fitzgerald 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 to clinch an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends 3-2) for the US
Chad Dictator Flees
Dec 1 Dictator of Chad Hissène Habré flees to Cameroon
- Dec 1 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
- Dec 1 Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
Patrick Ewing
Dec 1 New York Knicks center Patrick Ewing scores career high 22 field goals in his 50 point haul in 113-96 win v Charlotte at Madison Square Garden
- Dec 2 First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
- Dec 2 First time 12 people in space at the same time
- Dec 2 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
- Dec 4 An Iraqi official reports that Iraq will withdraw if it can retain control of the Rumailah field and keep Bubiyan and Werbah islands; also says that demands that the Palestinian issue be treated separately would not be surmountable
- Dec 4 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
- Dec 4 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
- Dec 5 Blue Jays trade F McGriff & T Fernandez to SD for R Alomar & J Carter
Rushdie Appears in Public
Dec 5 British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie appears in public for 1st time in 2 years after Iran called for his assassination
- Dec 5 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
- Dec 5 Iraq announces willingness to speak with US about resolving the Persian Gulf crisis
- Dec 6 NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
Hussein Releases Hostages
Dec 6 Saddam Hussein announces release of all foreign hostages
- Dec 6 Shoeless Joe Jackson's signature sells, at aucton, for $23,100
- Dec 7 Iraqi Parliament endorses Saddam Hussein's decision to free hostages
Turner, Fonda Engaged
Dec 7 Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
- Dec 8 Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
- Dec 8 NASA discovers life on Earth - in famous control experiment looking for alien life, using spacecraft Galileo's gravity assist fly-by Earth at close altitude of 597 miles (960 km) on its way to Jupiter [1] [2]
- Dec 9 23rd NAACP Image Awards: "Coming to America" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- Dec 9 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3k ladies (4:10.80)
- Dec 9 Houston scores most points against Cleveland, Oilers 58, Browns 14
Wałęsa Elected President
Dec 9 Lech Wałęsa wins the first direct presidential election in Poland
- Dec 9 NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
- Dec 10 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
- Dec 10 Soyuz TM-10 lands
- Dec 10 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
- Dec 11 13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
- Dec 11 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
- Dec 12 US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
- Dec 12 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell, leaves Kuwait
- Dec 13 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
- Dec 13 Revival of Leigh, Charlap, Styne, Comden and Green's musical "Peter Pan", starring Cathy Rigby, opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 45 performances
Klerk, Mandela Discuss Apartheid End
Dec 13 South African President F. W. de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to discuss the end of apartheid
- Dec 13 US Secretary of State Baker questions Iraq's seriousness about Middle East peace
Five Guys Named Moe
Dec 14 Louis Jordan's revue "Five Guys Named Moe" premieres in London
- Dec 14 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later
- Dec 16 KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
- Dec 16 Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide elected President of Haiti
- Dec 17 KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
- Dec 18 Bush reiterates his "no concessions" stance against Iraq
- Dec 18 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Washington, D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
- Dec 20 Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
- Dec 20 Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
Shevardnadze Resigns
Dec 20 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
- Dec 20 The world's first website and server go live at CERN
- Dec 21 Steve & Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW v WA
- Dec 22 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
- Dec 22 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
- Dec 22 Labor activist Lech Wałęsa sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president
Coffey 2nd to Score 1000
Dec 22 Paul Coffey becomes the second NHL defenceman to record 1000 points, doing so in a record-breaking 770 games
- Dec 23 Comedy "Lettice & Lovage" closes at Barrymore Theater, NYC after 284 performances
- Dec 23 Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
Raines to White Sox
Dec 24 Expos trade Tim Raines to White Sox for Ivan Calderon & Barry Jones
- Dec 24 Saddam Hussein says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
"The Godfather Part III"
Dec 25 "The Godfather Part III" directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia premieres
- Dec 25 Ballon d'Or: Inter's German sweeper Lothar Matthäus is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus striker Salvatore Schillaci and Inter defender Andreas Brehme
Kasparov Defeats Karpov
Dec 26 Garry Kasparov defeats fellow Russian Anatoly Karpov to retain the world chess championship
- Dec 26 Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
- Dec 26 Senior Professional Baseball Association folds
- Dec 27 Edmonton Oilers beat the Calgary Flames, 4-1 to record their 500th all-time NHL victory; set in just 915 games for a record of 500-295-120, good for a winning % of .612; best in history upon reaching milestone
- Dec 28 2 die and 188 injured in a NYC subway electrical fire in tunnel near Clark Street, Brooklyn
- Dec 28 Blockbuster Bowl 1: Florida State beats Penn State, 24-17
- Dec 30 "Miser" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 93 performances
- Dec 30 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000
- Dec 31 Iraq begins a military draft of 17-year-olds
- Dec 31 Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
- Dec 31 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
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