1901 – King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades.
1916 – National Baseball Commission orders that injured players get full pay for duration of their contracts, eliminating the injury clause that previously let clubs suspend players after 15 days of pay.
1922 – First Model A Ford sold for $385.
1932 – “Adventures of Charlie Chan” is first heard on the NBC-Blue radio network.
1939 – New York’s La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands 1 minute after midnight.
1941 – The largest roller skating rink outside of New York City opens in Peekskill, New York.
1944 – United States 95th Infantry division occupies a bridge at Saar, Germany during World War II.
1951 – Future Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Don Hutson has his #14 jersey retired by the Green Bay Packers, becoming the first number retired in franchise history.
1957 – First large scale nuclear power plant for peacetime use opens in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
1961 – Fidel Castro declares he’s a Marxist and will lead Cuba to Communism.
1969 – Boeing 747 jumbo jet has its first public preview on a flight from Seattle to New York City.
1972 – “December Giant,” the largest sinkhole in the United States, collapses in Shelby County, Alabama.
1978 – Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand’s duet single “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” hits #1.
1986 – Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 1,955.57.
1990 – 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit.
2001 – Enron, an energy, commodities and services company based in Houston, Texas, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York.
2014 – After being featured in a magazine article with his long-time life partner, veteran Major League Baseball umpire and crew chief Dale Scott openly acknowledges his homosexuality and receives an overwhelmingly positive reaction from within baseball circles.
2014 – Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a “threat to mankind” and spell the end of the human race.
2018 – Trade war truce between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina.
2020 – United States records its largest daily death toll for COVID-19 at 2,885 and for the first time patient numbers in hospital exceed 100,000.
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