1774 – Paul Revere and Wentworth Cheswell ride to warn Portsmouth of the approach of British warships.
1918 – US Army crosses Rhine, enters Germany.
1928 – Clip-on tie design.
1936 – National Football League Championship, Polo Grounds, New York City: Green Bay Packers beat Boston Redskins 21-6. It’s the Packers fourth title. Redskins move to Washington, D.C. for 1937 season.
1938 – Los Angeles, California freezes at 28 degrees.
1944 – Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.
1950 – James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial.
1956 – “Anastasia”, comeback film for Ingrid Bergman, is released. The role wins Bergman an Academy Award for Best Actress.
1956 – The Brooklyn Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to the New York Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000. Robinson will retire rather than be traded.
1957 – “Peyton Place,” a film based on the novel by Grace Metalious, directed by Mark Robson and starring Lana Turner and Hope Lange, is released.
1964 – In El Paso, Texas, President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting the Rio Grande River to reshape the US-Mexico border.
1971 – John Sinclair is freed. He had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of two marijuana joints.
1977 – 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash.
1979 – Saudi Arabia raises market crude price to $24 per barrel.
1989 – “Driving Miss Daisy,” directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, is released. It wins Best Picture in 1990.
1994 – American Eagle commuter plane crashes near Raleigh, North Carolina, killing 15.
2000 – 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 quarterback.
2017 – Online dictionary Merriam-Webster’s most searched word of the year is Feminism.
2018 – Apple announces new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas and expansion in other US cities.
2022 – Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is arrested in the Bahamas after the United States files criminal charges against him, including wire fraud and money laundering.
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