1807 – US Congress passes Embargo Act, prohibiting American ships from trading in all foreign ports, as a result of involvement in hostilities between France and Britain.
1877 – Thomas Edison’s phonograph is announced by Scientific American.
1882 – 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison.
1894 – United States Golf Association forms (NYC).
1910 – US postage savings stamps 1st issued.
1936 – 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa.
1941 – Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a wartime conference.
1956 – “New Faces of 1956” closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances.
1958 – “Chipmunk Song” reaches #1.
1962 – Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s.
1964 – First flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71, reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet).
1965 – “Doctor Zhivago” based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, directed by David Lean and starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie premieres in NYC.
1969 – Pete Maravich set NCAA record of hitting 30 or 31 foul shots.
1973 – OPEC Gulf Six decides to raise the posted price of marker crude from $5.12 to $11.65 per barrel effective January 1, 1974.
1976 – 35 Unification church couples wed in NYC.
1988 – Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gallons on 300 miles of Washington State and British Columbia coast.
1990 – Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen.
1997 – Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA.
2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.
2010 – Repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy”, a 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the US military, signed into law by President Barack Obama.
2016 – Ebola vaccine VSV-EBOV is found to be 70-100% effective in a study published in The Lancet, becoming the world’s first proven vaccine against Ebola.
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