Aging emperor Francis Joseph warned military man Don Miguel Braganza that he would be exiled if he did not stop plotting to overthrow the government of Portugal.
Chile and Peruvian officials were meeting in Washington to try resolving their disputes. One of the main issues was over the fate of Tacoa Arica.
Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City opening with a spectacular stage show, featuring Ray Bolger and Martha Graham.
Workers and peasants, the neglected masses, were benefited by President Lacaro Curdenas’s Agrarian Reform law.
Nazi battleship, The Scharnhorst, was sunk by the British off the coast of Norway. The battleship was a 28,000 ton vessel that probably intended to strike a convoy near Murmansk.
Indonesia gains it's independence from the Netherlands after 400 years of Dutch Rule.
French lawmakers were saddled with the thorny problem of whether or not to allow West Germany to rearm and join NATO.
France explodes it's third atomic bomb test in the Sahara desert in Africa.
December 27th , 1994 : When Rwanda’s president was killed in a plane crash the country was plunged into a blood bath and genocide.