1776 – Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France.
1900 – As American forces defeat Filipino insurgents and impose civil authority, some Filipinos form a Federal Party with a platform recognizing US sovereignty.
1913 – US President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law.
1919 – Alice H. Parker patents gas heating furnace.
1930 – Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC.
1938 – Margaret Hamilton’s costume catches fire while filming “The Wizard of Oz”
1941 – American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese.
1946 – Highest ridership in NYC subway history (8.8 million passengers)
1951 – National Football League Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns, 24-17; first coast-to-coast televised NFL title game.
1961 – Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food & medical supplies.
1968 – Frank Bowman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the 1st men to orbit the Moon.
1973 – 6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices.
1987 – Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford, escapes from Alderson Prison.
1994 – Fearing arrest by the FBI, Whitey Bulger flees Boston, and successfully hides from law enforcement for the next 16 years.
1997 – Chicago Bulls coach Phil Jackson is quickest to reach 500 wins (682)
1997 – Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing.
1997 – US Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18.
1997 – “As Good as it Gets” film released written and directed by James L. Brooks, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt.
2016 – United Nations Security Council adopts a landmark resolution demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. Resolution 2334 was moved by New Zealand, Malaysia, Senegal and Venezuela and passed 14-0 with a US abstention.
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