1620 – 1,033 Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
1829 – 1st stone arch railroad bridge is US dedicated, Baltimore.
1891 – 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1913 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World.
1921 – Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional.
1929 – 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas, TX)
1932 – Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio).
1933 – Fox Films signs Shirley Temple, age 5, to a studio contract.
1937 – The first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
1945 – “Billion Dollar Baby” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 219 performances.
1959 – Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988).
1962 – US & Cuba accord, released Bay of Pigs captives.
1968 – Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders.
1975 – “Hello Dolly” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances.
1976 – UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child.
1988 – Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by a terrorist bomb killing all 258 pm board over Scotland.
1995 – SF Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000.
1996 – Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher David Ho is named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year.
2012 – “Gangnam Style” becomes the first video to reach one billion views on You Tube.
2016 – Carl Icahn is announced as Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform, under President Donald Trump.