1842 – New York’s Philharmonic’s 1st concert.
1891 – 52nd US Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session.
1909 – Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry.
1917 – The USA’s 42nd ‘Rainbow’ Division arrives in France (with Colonel Douglass MacArthur among its ranks)
1926 – Gas refrigerator patented.
1932 – 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in NY.
1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.
1953 – WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting.
1957 – Tony Kubek of the Yankees selected as AL Rookie of the Year.
1963 – First use of the instant replay machine invented by CBS in a US Army vs Navy football game.
1967 – Otis Redding records his song “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”, co-written and produced by guitarist Steve Cooper at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1972 – Apollo 7 launched, the final manned lunar landing mission where the crew takes the famous “blue marble” photo of the entire Earth.
1979 – “Star Trek: the Motion Picture,” first movie of the series premieres directed by Robert Wise, starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
1987 – 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
1990 – Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement.
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands.
2005 – U.S. debut of the second part of two-part TV biopic miniseries “Pope John Paul II” on CBS.
2015 – US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US.
2017 – Former US gymnastics physician Larry Nasser is sentenced to 60 years on child pornography charges.
2021 -US President Joe Biden warns Russian President Vladimir Putin of economic consequences if Russia continues a military build-up in Ukraine, during a virtual meeting.
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