1640 – Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Massachusetts colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin.
1793 – Noah Webster establishes New York’s 1st daily newspaper, the “American Minerva”
1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
1878 – Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500.
1884 – Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate.
1907 – First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Delaware, post office)
1926 – USGA legalizes steel shaft gold clubs.
1935 – Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1941 – Hitler orders US ships are to be torpedoed.
1953 – General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired.
1965 – “A Charlie Brown Christmas” premieres.
1968 – NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1974 – Dow Jones index hits 570.01.
1975 – US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 billion loan authorization for New York City.
1983 – Counselor to Ronald Reagan, Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens “…because food is free & that’s easier than paying for it.
1984 – LA Rams Eric Dickerson rushes 215 yards for season record 2,105 yards.
1987 – Larry Bird ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws.
1993 – “My Fair Lady” opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 165 performances.
2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency.
2015 – Amazon’s best-selling book of the year is “Girl on a Train” by Paula Hawkins.
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