The Eiffel Tower is damaged by fire.
Author: Staff
31 December 1963
Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia are formed out of the collapse of the Central African Federation officially collapses.
30 December 1066
A Muslim mob raids the royal palace in Granada, killing the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and most of the Jewish population of the city.
29 December 1890
300 Lakota Indians are killed during Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
27 December 1845
Ether is first used as an anesthetic childbirth by Dr Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.