Noel Coward 1899 - English actor, playwright and composer
- 1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
- 1835 - In New York, 530 buildings were destroyed by fire.
- 1901 - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time.
- 1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.
- 1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
- 1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet" in a special preview on "Chesterfield Sound Off Time". The show began officially on January 3, 1952.
- 1973 - O.J. Simpson broke Jim Brown’s single-season rushing record in the NFL. Brown had rushed for 1,863 yards, while Simpson attained 2,003 yards.
- 1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE (Mad Cow) in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.
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