1861 – American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of War is established by the U.S. Congress.
1978 – Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500.
1907 – First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Delaware, post office)
1925 – Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000.
1926 – USGA legalizes steel shaft golf clubs.
1935 – Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1941 – 1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines.
1941 – Adolph Hitler orders US ships to be torpedoed.
1953 – General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired.
1958 – Robert W. Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis for form the conservative and anti-Communist John Birch Society.
1965 – “A Charlie Brown Christmas” first Peanuts animated special premieres on CBS in the US.
1968 – NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1974 – Dow Jones index hits 570.01.
1975 – US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 billion loan authorization for NYC.
1983 – Counselor to Ronald Reagan, Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchen “…because food is free & that’s easier than paying for it”
1985 – San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive games with a reception in a 27-20 defeat to LA Rams at Candlestick Park.
1992 – Operation Restore Hope: US Marines land in Somalia.
2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barach Obama’s election to the Presidency.
2013 – Mike Ditka’s #89 jersey is retired by the Chicago Bears.
2017 – 83rd Heisman Trophy Award: Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma (QB)
2019 – US officials “deliberately misled” the public on progress of the Afghanistan war, hid that it was a lost cause, according to The Washington Post analysis of the “Afghanistan Papers”
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