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- 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London: 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds.
- 1979 – The United States space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation was re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
- 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
- 1967 – Dagen H (pictured) in Sweden: traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.
- 1976 – Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
- 1997 – A Vietnam Airlines Tupolev TU-134 crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1923 – Maiden flight of the first United States airship, the USS Shenandoah.
- 1949 – Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon.
- 1957 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
- 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all on board.
- 1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens.
- 1971 – A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery (pictured) lands after its maiden voyage.
- 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- 2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic for the first time.
- 1522 – The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
- 1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
- 1983 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Flight KAL-007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
- 1985 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9 crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 31.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1860 – Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
- 1906 – Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
- 1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- 1929 – Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives were lost.
- 1942 – First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
- 1979 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1994 – A USAir Boeing 737 crashes in Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.
- 2004 – The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
- 2005 – Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near Fairland, Indiana.
- 1970 – A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned Independent Subway System, is opened.
- 1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
- 1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident (pictured) and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1602 – Henry Hudson comes across Manhattan Island and the natives living there.
- 1916 – The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
- 1968 – Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
- 1972 – Bay Area Rapid Transit (pictured) in San Francisco, United States begins regular service.
- 1997 – NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
- 2001 – Several airliners hijacked and crashed in the United States as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1857 – The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship carried 13-15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush.
- 1906 – Newport Transporter Bridge (pictured) is opened in Newport, United Kingdom.
- 1992 – NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board is Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1906 – First fixed-wing aircraft flight in Europe.
- 1994 – Ulysses probe (pictured) passes the Sun's south pole.
- 2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1984 – Joe Kittinger (pictured) becomes the first person to fly a hot air balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1835 – The HMS Beagle (pictured), with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
- 1962 – The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1968 – The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
- 1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm was hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.
- 1974 – Air Vietnam flight 727 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1908 – General Motors is founded.
- 1975 – The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- 2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1949 – The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
- 1959 – Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit.
- 1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 1977 – Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth and Moon together.
- 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station (pictured).
- 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
More events: December 14 – December 15 – December 16
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