1787 – Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify the US constitution.
1868 – Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin, Missouri, kills 1.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of “Scientific American”.
1891 – 52nd US Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session.
1907 – Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring.
1911 – Leslie J. Stuart’s musical “Betsy” premieres in NYC.
1917 – U.S. becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I.
1926 – Gas refrigerator patented.
1937 – Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams.
1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbour Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2403 people.
1941 – 1st Japanese midget submarine (No.20) attacked by a US ship (USS Ward).
1945 – Microwave oven patented.
1963 – Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1973 – Wings release “Band on the Run”
1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1990 – Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement.
1993 – Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery.
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands.
2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
2013 – 9th ACC Championship Game: #1 Florida State beats #20 Duke, 45-7.
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