1862 - Connie Mack born
1867 - Madame C.J. Walker born
1873 - Author William Makepeace Thackeray dies
1918 - Jose Greco born
1943 - Harry Shearer (Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) born
1948 - Susan Lucci born
1956 - The United Nations Emergency Force takes over in Egypt after British and French forces withdraw from Port Said and Port Fuad ending the Suez Crisis.
1964 - Dr Richard Beeching who instigated major and controversial changes to the rail network will quit, says the government. Also Eddie Vedder born
1971 - Corey Haim born
1972 - Ten thousand people are feared dead after a two-hour earthquake rips through the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.
1986 - The Soviet Union's most prominent dissident, Andrei Sakharov, has returned to Moscow after almost seven years of internal exile.
1992 - The BBC investigates a leak which led to the Queen's Christmas speech being published in a national newspaper.
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