1777 – George Washington’s army returns to Valley Forge, Pa.
1791 – NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street.
1821 – Kentucky abolishes debtors’ prisons.
1862 – General Ulysses S. Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee.
1903 – At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright).
1920 – AL votes to let spitball pitchers to continue using it.
1925 – Col. William “Billy” Mitchell court-martialed for insubordination.
1933 – NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in championship game.
1936 – Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV.
1944 – US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees released.
1953 – US Federal Communications Commission approves RCA’s black & white-compatible color TV specifications.
1957 – The last episode of the Nat King Cole Show airs on NBC due to lack of national sponsorship.
1965 – Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
1975 – Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on US President Ford’s life.
1986 – US Congress forms “Irangate” committee.
1989 – The Simpsons, America’s longest-running sitcom debuts.
1991 – Soap Opera “One Life To Live” airs its 6,000th episode.
1994 – KLM’s last DC-10 goes out of service.
2012 – NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field.
2013 – Cat Stevens, Hall & Oates, Kiss, Linda Ronstadt, and Nirvana are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.