1816 – Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston.
1918 – US Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany.
1922 – Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players’ sleeves or caps.
1931 – National Football League Championship: Green Bay Packers (12-0) win 3rd straight post title.
1943 – 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol.
1944 – Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.
1950 – James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial.
1957 – “Peyton Place” film based on the novel by Grace Metalious, directed by Mark Robson and starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange is released.
1962 – Relay 1 communication satellite launched.
1967 – San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees in eight hours.
1970 – Neil Simon’s “Gingerbread Lady” premieres in NYC.
1977 – University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash.
1979 – Saudi Arabia raises market crude price to $24 per barrel.
1983 – 9,655 see highest scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1989 – “Driving Miss Daisy” directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy is released (Best Picture 1990)
1994 – American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15.
2000 – American Vice President Al Gore delivers his concession speech effectively ending his hopes of becoming the 43rd President of the United States.
2010 – 76th Heisman Trophy Award: Cam Newton, Auburn (QB)
2014 – Two US soldiers killed in a Taliban bombing of a NATO convoy in Kabul.
2017 – Online dictionary Merriam-Webster’s most searched word of the year is Feminism.
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