1798 – David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine.
1862 – Battle of Kinston, fought in Lenoir County, North Carolina begins (Goldsboro Expedition), Union Victory (US Civil War)
1903 – The Wright Brothers attempt to fly the Wright Flyer for the first time at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1916 – America’s first board certified doctors are named by the American Board of Ophthalmology following an examination at the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis, Tennessee.
1934 – 1st streamline steam locomotive introduced in Albany, NY.
1941 – 1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14.
1944 – US Congress establishes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
1950 – Musical “Bless You All” opens at mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 84 performances.
1958 – Pat Summerall kicks game winning field goal for the New York Giants against the Cleveland Browns at Yankee Stadium.
1961 – Jimmy Dean’s “Big Bad John” is 1st country song to get a gold record.
1967 – DNA created in a test tube.
1969 – “Leaving on a Jet Plane” single sung by Peter, Paul and Marry, written by John Deaver is #1 on US Billboard’s Hot Top 100.
1980 – At 2 PM EST there is a 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon.
1984 – Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from Monday Night Football.
1987 – Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new.
2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zandi during a farewell conference in Baghdad.
2012 – 28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
2016 – Amazon announces its 1st delivery by drone 2 km from their warehouse in the UK.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion.
2018 – Report by Reuters US pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson knew for decades their talc was contaminated with asbestos.
2019 – Bel Air mansion featured in TV series, “The Beverly Hillbillies” sells for $150 million, becoming California’s most expensive property
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