1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg andbecome college football's winningest coach

1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched

1986 NBC’s Ahmad Rashad heard the acceptance of his marriage proposal from Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of the Detroit Lions-New York Jets football game.

1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time

1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

1988 Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million

1997 Netscape disputes browser figures by countering Dataquest's estimates that said that Microsoft was gaining ground in the browser market.

1997 Online music retailer CDNow filed for an IPO on this day in 1997

1905 Sinn Fein founded by Arthur Griffith

1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman empire

1960 Mauritania declares independence from France

1975 East Timor declares independence from Portugal

1628 The birth of John Bunyan, British writer

1757 The birth of William Blake, English poet

2005 The Liberal Party minority government in Canada is toppled by a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons tabled by the Conservatives and backed by the Bloc Québécois and the New Democratic Party, paving the way for a federal election on January 23, 206.

2005 The United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Montreal, Quebec. The conference lasted until December 9, and featured a speech by former President Bill Clinton that the George W. Bush Administration objected to.

2006 nov 29 - The NATO Summit 2006 takes place in Latvia.

2007 President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stands down as the head of the Pakistan Army and was successed by Lt. General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.

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