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Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
Pan Am Flight 799 crashes during takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base, killing three.
World War II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
Born: Peep Jänes, Estonian architect.
World premiere of Sibelius's tone poem Tapiola.
Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I in the Decembrist revolt, but are later suppressed.
Died: Masrur al-Balkhi, Abbasid general.
Election of Pope Leo III.