1902 – The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariffs on imported Cuban products.
1909 – Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC.
1919 – Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama.
1930 – Bank of the United States closes in New York City.
1934 – National League (Baseball) votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team)
1941 – Germany & Italy declare war on USA.
1946 – Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label.
1951 – Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball.
1951 – “The Wild Side of Life” single recorded by Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys (Billboard Song of the Year 1952)
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 Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn – Academy Award for Best Actress 1968)
1972 – Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th people on the Moon.
1975 – US 1st class postage rises from 10 cents to 13 cents.
1985 – General Electric acquires RCA Corp & it subsidiary, NBC.
1997 – Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows.
2009 – Tiger Woods announces an indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
2011 – Jeopardy host Alex Trebek suffers a minor heart attack in his home and is admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
2013 – Pope Francis is named Time magazine’s person of the year.
2017 – US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls for the resignation of President Donald Trump given 16 women have accused him of sexual harassment.
2018 – US President Donald Trump says he would be “proud” to shut down the government in contentious meeting at The White House with Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
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