1891 – First game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1913 – First crossword puzzle printed in New York World. It had 32 clues.
1919 – J. Edgar Hoover persuades the United States to deport 250 alien radicals, including anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman and her husband to Russia.
1929 – First group hospital insurance plan offered in Dallas, Texas.
1933 – Fox films signed 5-year-old Shirley Temple to a studio contract.
1937 – “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classic series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
1941 – National Football League Championship, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 37-9. Chicago is the first team in NFL Championship game era, since 1933, to win consecutive titles. It was the Bears 5th title overall.
1952 – Broadway tunnel opens in San Francisco.
1959 – Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys. He remains the head coach until 1988.
1962 – The United States and Cuba negotiate accord for Cuba to release “Bay of Pigs” captives in exchange for $23 million worth of medicine and baby food.
1968 – First manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders aboard Apollo 8.
1970 – Elvis Presley meets President Richard Nixon in the White House. The image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives.
1980 – Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive games with at least one reception.
1988 – Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air over Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew on board and 11 people on the ground.
1994 – Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street in New York City.
1997 – Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders is third to run for 2,000 yards in a season.
2006 – Joe Sakic is named captain of the 2006 Team Canada Olympic team.
2012 – “Gangnam Style” by PSY becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube.
2017 – United Nations General Assembly votes 128 to 9 to denounce the United States’ decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
2022 – Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington, DC. He meets with President Joe Biden at the White House and addresses Congress.
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