1696 – Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1787 – Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify the US constitution.
1842 – New York Philharmonic’s 1st concert.
1868 – Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin, Missouri, kills 1.
1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of “Scientific American”
1891 – 52nd US Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session.
1917 – US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I.
1926 – Gas refrigerator patented.
1938 – Philip Barry’s “Here Come the Clowns” premieres in NYC.
1941 – Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people.
1957 – Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year.
1963 – Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1967 – Otis Redding records “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”
1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the US.
1985 – Atlantis (61-B) returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB.
1993 – The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
1995 – US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter.
2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
2015 – Time Magazine readers name Bernie Sanders their ‘person of the year’
2015 – US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US.
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