1793 – Noah Webster establishes New York’s 1st daily newspaper, the “American Minerva”
1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Commission 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.
1889 – US President Benjamin Harrison dedicates the Chicago Auditorium, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, then largest building in the US.
1907 – First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Delaware, post office)
1925 – Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000.
1941 – 1st US WW II bombing mission for Far East, Luzon, Philippines.
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 $2.3B loan authorization for NYC.
1983 – Counselor to Ronald Regan, Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens”…because food is free & that’s easier than paying for it.”
1992 – Operation Restore Hope – US Marines land in Somalia.
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.
2014 – CIA Torture Report released, detailing the CIA’s use of torture on detainees between 2001-2006.
2015 – Amazon’s best-selling book of the year is “Girl on a Train” by Paula Hawkins.
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