Highlights
From politics to pop culture — the 90s news cycle never slept:
David Goffin
David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
Aleksandr Menkov
Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper
Urszula Radwańska
Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player
Joan Bennett
Joan Bennett, American actress (born 1910)
Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (born 1909)
Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905)
The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.
An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.
Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
Whether you were a Blockbuster music shopper or a MTV devotee, these names mattered:
The 90s produced legends. Here's who was in the spotlight:
Cameron Bairstow
Cameron Bairstow, Australian basketball player
Yasiel Puig
Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
Chris Wood (footballer, born 1991)
Chris Wood, New Zealand footballer
Pete Alonso
Pete Alonso, American baseball player
Before streaming, before binge watching — these titles had us glued to the set:
Days of Our Lives
"Ep. #7422" (Season 1994, Episode 281) aired on 1994-12-07.
Babylon 5
"Spider in the Web" (Season 2, Episode 6) aired on 1994-12-07.
Touched by an Angel
"An Unexpected Snow" (Season 1, Episode 7) aired on 1994-12-07.
Billboard Music Awards
"Billboard Music Awards 1994" (Season 1994, Episode 1) aired on 1994-12-07.
"Franklin Graham" (Season 1995, Episode 209) aired on 1995-12-07.
"Positive: A Journey Into A.I.D.S." (Season 24, Episode 2) aired on 1995-12-07.
"If You're Going to Write a Comedy Scene, You're Going to Have Some Rat Feces in There" (Season 2, Episode 4) aired on 1996-12-07.
"Madison (host), Nirvana, Crash Test Dummies" (Season 1996, Episode 39) aired on 1996-12-07.
"1996 Big 12 Championship Game: #3 Nebraska Cornhuskers (10-1) vs. Texas Longhorns (7-4)" (Season 1996, Episode 1) aired on 1996-12-07.
"Sand-Powered Wooden Toys" (Season 16, Episode 10) aired on 1996-12-07.
"The Selena Murder Trial" (Season 1, Episode 3) aired on 1996-12-07.
"Eating Contest / Rhonda's Glasses" (Season 2, Episode 13) aired on 1997-12-07.
"Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book" (Season 42, Episode 12) aired on 1997-12-07.
"D-Generation X: In Your House" (Season 1997, Episode 13) aired on 1997-12-07.
"The Longest Day / Take Us to Your Liter / Escape from Wet Nurse Island" (Season 2, Episode 7) aired on 1998-12-07.
"Phoebe Takes the Fall / The Pig War" (Season 3, Episode 16) aired on 1998-12-07.
"Billboard Music Awards 1998" (Season 1998, Episode 1) aired on 1998-12-07.
"Green Bay Packers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers" (Season 1998, Episode 14) aired on 1998-12-07.
"Tim Conway" (Season 1998, Episode 154) aired on 1998-12-07.
"Patrick Stewart, Jon Stewart, Faith Hill" (Season 1998, Episode 193) aired on 1998-12-07.
The MTV countdown was everything. These videos owned TRL:
The #1 most requested video on TRL on this date in 1999
#2 on TRL — Britney Spears, "...Baby One More Time"
#3 on TRL — TLC, "No Scrubs"
#4 on TRL — *NSYNC, "I Drive Myself Crazy"
#5 on TRL — Eminem, "My Name Is"
#6 on TRL — 98 Degrees, "The Hardest Thing"
#7 on TRL — Lauryn Hill, "Ex-Factor"
#8 on TRL — Brandy & Monica, "The Boy Is Mine"
#9 on TRL — Sugar Ray, "Every Morning"
#10 on TRL — Kid Rock, "Bawitdaba"
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