1776 – George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.
1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
1821 – Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (d. 1912) is born.
1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.
1878 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, co-founded Chevrolet (d. 1941) is born.
1887 – Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (d. 1979) is born.
1889 – Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984) is born.
1890 – Robert Ripley, American anthropologist and publisher, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (d. 1949) is born.
1919 – Paul David, Canadian cardiologist and politician, founded the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999) is born.
1924 – Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer, created The Twilight Zone (d. 1975) is born.
1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet
1949 – Leon Schlesinger, American animator and producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (b. 1884) dies.
1950 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
2000 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
2003 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
2004 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
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