- Dec 4 15th Big 12 Championship Game: #10 Oklahoma beats #13 Nebraska, 23-20
- Dec 4 19th SEC Championship Game: #2 Auburn beats #18 South Carolina, 56-17
- Dec 4 6th ACC Championship Game: #12 Virginia Tech beats #20 Florida State, 44-33
- Dec 5 99th Davis Cup: Serbia beats France in Belgrade (3-2)
Birds of America's Record Price
Dec 6 Record price for a printed book when a first edition of "The Birds of America" by John James Audubon auctioned at Sotheby's, London, England, for £7,321,250
- Dec 7 Iceland officially leaves the recession with growth of 1.2% in the third quarter
Imprisoned Xiaobo Awarded Nobel
Dec 10 Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, while imprisoned in China
- Dec 11 Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
- Dec 12 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: Europe regains title with an 11-8 win over US; MVP: Darren Appleton (England)
- Dec 13 76th Heisman Trophy Award: Cam Newton, Auburn (QB)
Larry King Live
Dec 16 Final episode of TV talk show "Larry King Live" airs on CNN
- Dec 19 "Miracle at the New Meadowlands", Philadelphia Eagles trail New York Giants by 21 points with eight minutes to play, before scoring 4 touchdowns in final 7 minutes, including dramatic walk-off punt returned for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson
"Don't Ask Don't Tell" Repealed
Dec 22 Repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell policy", a 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the US military, signed into law by President Barack Obama
Film & TV History
Dec 24 Gary Sinise converts to Catholicism, following his wife who converted in 2000
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