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1872 – Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback takes office as the first African American US Governor in Louisiana.

1902 – The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products.

1919 – Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama.

1934 – National League votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)

1938 – National Football League Championship, Polo Grounds, NYC: New York Giants beat Green Bay Packers, 23-17 record title game attendance, 48,120.

1941 – NY Giants acquire future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Johnny Mize from Cardinals for 3 players & $50,000.

1950 – British Physicist Cecil Frank Powell awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of nuclear processes and the discovery of the pion.

1951 – “The Wild Side of Life” single recorded by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys (Billboard Song of the Year, 1952)

1960 – Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh’s musical “Wildcat” with Lucille Ball premieres in New York City.

1961 – Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 20 weeks.

1961 – JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam.

1967 – “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracey, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn – Academy Award for Best Actress 1968)

1972 – American Astronauts Eugene Cernan & Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt, become 11th and 12th people on the Moon.

1980 – “Magnum P.I.” starring Tom Selleck premieres on CBS.

1985 – General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC.

1992 – Nor’easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage.

1997 – Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows.

2008 – Bernie Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

2015 – “Playboy” magazine publishes its last nude issue, featuring Pamela Anderson on the cover.

2018 – US President Donald Trump says he would be “proud” to shut down the government in a contentious meeting at the White House with Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shumer.

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