1620 – Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
1902 – The United States signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products.
1909 – Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1919 – Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama.
1932 – It snows on San Francisco’s coldest day (27F).
1938 – National Football League Championship, Polo Grounds, New York City: New York Giants beat Green Bay Packers 23-17. Record title game attendance 48,120.
1946 – Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label.
1951 – Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball.
1954 – USS Forrestal aircraft carrier christened in Newport News, Virginia.
1961 – Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 20 weeks.
1961 – President John Kennedy 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 New York City. Hepburn wins Academy Award for Best Actress in 1968.
1972 – Astronauts Eugene Cernan & Harrison “Jack” Schmitt become 11th and 12th people on the Moon.
1981 – Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali’s 61st and last fight. He loses to Trevor Berbick by unanimous decision in 10 rounds at Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre, Nassau, Bahamas.
1985 – General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC.
1992 – Nor’easter storm hits New York doing a billion dollars worth of damage.
2004 – 70th Heisman Trophy Award: Matt Leinart, Southern California quarterback.
2008 – Bernie Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2013 – Pope Francis is named Time magazine’s person of the year.
2017 – Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls for the resignation of President Donald Trump given that 16 women have accused him of sexual harassment.
2020 – Supreme Court rejects lawsuit by Texas to overturn Joe Biden’s election in four battleground states that was endorsed by 17 Republican attorney generals.
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