- Dec 1 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
- Dec 1 Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
- Dec 1 US Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
- Dec 2 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
Don Sutton
Dec 3 Don Sutton, the winningest pitcher in Los Angeles Dodgers history, signs a 4-year contract with Houston; Astros career shortened by a patellar fracture; returns to Dodgers in 1988 after stints with 3 other MLB clubs
- Dec 3 NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
- Dec 4 Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
Led Zeppelin To Disband
Dec 4 Two months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin announces they will disband
- Dec 5 Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
- Dec 6 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 502
- Dec 7 69th Davis Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Italy in Prague (4-1)
Dec 7 Senior PGA Championship, Turnberry Isle CC: Arnold Palmer wins with a birdie on the 1st playoff hole against Paul Harney
- Dec 8 "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
Lennon's Last Photo-shoot
Dec 8 Annie Leibovitz has a photo-shoot with John Lennon, the last person to professionally photograph him before he is murdered on the same day
- Dec 9 61°F in Boston at 1 AM
- Dec 10 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
- Dec 10 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Dec 11 Dirk Wellham scores 100 on 1st-class debut, NSW v Victoria
- Dec 11 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
- Dec 12 Apple makes its initial public offering on the US stock market - 38 years later it would become the 1st US company valued at over $1 trillion, 1st over $2 trillion two years after that, and 1st over $3 trillion three years after that
- Dec 12 US copyright law amended to include computer programs
Perfectly Frank
Dec 13 Musical revue "Perfectly Frank", featuring songs by Frank Loesser, closes at Helen Hayes Theater, NYC, after 16 performances
- Dec 14 "Onward Victoria" opens and closes at Martin Beck NYC after 1 performance
- Dec 14 Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
- Dec 14 At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
- Dec 14 Massacre at Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles with 3 people killed and 6 injured
- Dec 14 Minnesota Vikings pass for 456 yards against Cleveland Browns, winning 28-24
- Dec 14 New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
- Dec 14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Winfield Highest Paid
Dec 15 NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
- Dec 15 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
- Dec 15 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
- Dec 17 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 17 Mauritania provisional constitution published
- Dec 18 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts minister Van Agts abortion laws
- Dec 18 IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
- Dec 18 Vietnam adopts constitution
- Dec 19 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
- Dec 19 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
- Dec 19 Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
Former Premier Kosygin Dead
Dec 20 Soviet Union formally announces the death of past Premier Alexei Kosygin
- Dec 21 Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
Cardinals Release Bonds
Dec 22 MLB St. Louis Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
- Dec 22 US President-elect Ronald Reagan appoints Jeanne Kirkpatrick (UN Ambassador) & James Watt (Secretary of the Interior)
- Dec 24 Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
- Dec 26 10th Fiesta Bowl: #10 Penn State beats #11 Ohio State, 31-19
- Dec 26 Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
- Dec 27 Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
- Dec 28 Mexico terminated fishing agreements with US
- Dec 29 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) to Launch Complex 39A
- Dec 30 "Wonderful World of Disney" last performance on NBC-TV
Dec 30 Ballon d'Or: Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is named best European football player; beats German international teammate Bernd Schuster of FC Barcelona and Saint-Étienne midfielder Michel Platini
- Dec 31 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
- Dec 31 After being struck by an orange thrown from the crowd West Indian fast bowler Sylvester Clarke knocks out a spectator with a brick during 4th Test against Pakistan in Multan
Springteen's River Tour
Dec 31 Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band's "The River Tour" concert at Nassau Coliseum (Uniondale, New York) clocks in at almost 4 hours
- Dec 31 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
- Dec 31 Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns
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