1899 – Webb Hayes, son of President Rutherford Hayes, receives Congressional Medal of Honor. Webb led a rescue party to free soldiers garrisoned at Vigan Island in the Philippines.
1914 – Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson accepts an advance payment from the Chicago Whales of the Federal League. Senators owner Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court.
1915 – Henry Ford’s peace mission aboard the Oscar II sails for Europe “to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas” during World War I.
1920 – First pro football playoff game: Buffalo All-Americans 7, Canton Bulldogs 3 at Polo Grounds in New York City.
1927 – Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem in New York City.
1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the Federal Alcohol Control Administration.
1942 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders dismantling of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
1945 – Senate approves United States’ participation in the United Nations.
1954 – The first Burger King fast-food restaurant opens in Miami, Florida.
1956 – An impromptu recording session by the “Million-Dollar Quartet” of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash take place at Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
1961 – Syracuse running back Ernie Davis is the first pick in the 1962 NFL draft by the Washington Redskins.
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 7 with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell aboard. The astronauts remained in the capsule in space for 14 days.
1970 – Unemployment in the United States increases to 5.8%.
1981 – “Falcon Crest” premieres on CBS-TV.
1996 – NASA’s first Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral.
2005 – Debut of the first part of two-part TV biopic miniseries “Pope John Paul II” airs on CBS.
2014 – NBC airs musical “Peter Pan Live!” starring Allison Williams and Christopher Walken; substantially revised from earlier Mary Martin productions.
2022 – Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for singers Gladys Knight and Amy Grant, actor George Clooney, rock band U2, and composer Tania Leon in Washington, D.C.
2023 – Caitlin Clark posts 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for Iowa against Wisconsin, surpassing the Big Ten career triple-double record with her seventh.
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