1910 – Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs.
1919 – Labor conference committee urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week.
1923 – President Calvin Coolidge pardons WWI German spy Lothar Witzke, who had been sentenced to death. He later was deported to Germany.
1927 – First snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason of Saynor, Wisconsin.
1934 – “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” is first heard on Eddie Cantor’s show.
1936 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Pinehurst CC: Denny Shute wins first of his consecutive PGA titles, defeating Jimmy Thomson 3 & 2.
1943 – The Cairo Conference: President Franklin Roosevelt, Great British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek meet in Egypt to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1950 – 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, New York.
1955 – RCA Records makes its best investment, paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract.
1959 – American Football League conducts its first draft in Minneapolis with the eight clubs selecting their playing rosters for the inaugural 1960 season.
1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th President after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1970 – 20th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Issac wins.
1985 – Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens.
1990 – George H.W. Bush visits United States troops in Saudi Arabia.
1991 – New York Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2-year extension.
1996 – O.J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is “absolutely not true.”
2005 – Ted Koppel retires from late night television new program “Nightline with Ted Koppel” after 25 years with the show, 41 Emmy Awards, and 42 years with ABC.
2012 – Two people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas.
2017 – Uber admits hackers stole personal information affecting 57 million people worldwide and paid $100,000 to keep it quiet.
2020 – G20 virtual two-day summit ends with pledge to ensure affordable access to vaccines for all.
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