1774 – Paul Revere and Wentworth Cheswell ride to warn Portsmouth of the approach of British warships.
1918 – United States Army occupation crosses Rhine and enters Germany.
1922 – Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on baseball players’ sleeves or caps.
1928 – Clip-on tie is designed in Iowa.
1938 – Los Angeles, California freezes at 28 degrees.
1944 – Japanese kamikaze crashes into United States cruiser Nashville, killing 138 people.
1950 – James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial.
1956 – “Anastasia,” a comeback film for Ingrid Bergman, is released. Bergman wins an Academy Award for Best Actress.
1961 – The Beatles sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian Epstein.
1967 – San Diego, California records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge to 19 degrees in eight hours.
1970 – Neil Simon’s play “Gingerbread Lady” starring Maureen Stapleton (Tony Award for Best Actress), premieres on Broadway in New York City.
1973 – World Football League grants its first franchise to Detroit.
1977 – 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash.
1983 – Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky’s first female governor.
1989 – “Driving Miss Daisy,” directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, is released. It wins Best Picture in 1990.
1993 – Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 3,764.43.
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.
2014 – Two United States soldiers killed in a Taliban bombing of a NATO convoy in Kabul.
2021 – Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, named Time’s Person of the Year.
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