1799 – George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as “1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in hearts of countrymen”
1854 – Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo.
1878 – 1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia.
1914 – US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea, on the same day German’s announce they will treat food as contraband, subject to seizure; weakens America’s protest.
1919 – Yankees and Boston Red Sox reach agreement to move future Baseball Hall of Fame pitching slugger Babe Ruth to New York.
1925 – 1st East-West Shrine Bowl game of college ‘all-stars’ played before 25,000 fans at Ewing Park, San Francisco. Proceeds continue to benefit Shriners Hospitals for children.
1933 – FM radio patent granted to American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong.
1941 – Winston Churchill becomes first British Prime Minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress, warning that Axis would “stop at nothing”
1944 – Battle of Bastogne: US General Patton’s 3rd Army repulses Germans.
1954 – “The Shadow” airs for last time on radio.
1963 – The Beatles release “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There” in the US.
1971 – Muhammad Ali finishes off German Jurgen Blin with a thundering right cross for a 7th round knockout in a non-title heavyweight boxing contest in Zurich, Switzerland.
1973 – 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours.
1982 – TIME’s Man of the Year is a computer.
1991 – Jack Ruby’s gun sells for $220,000 in auction.
1996 – Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado.
1998 – Iraq announes its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.
2001 – Crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) record one of their largest one 1-day jumps of the year as traders become convinced that OPEC will follow through on production cuts.
2018 – American Colin O’Brady is the first person to cross Antarctica solo and unassisted after 54 days at the Ross Ice Shelf.
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