1903 – Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase the American League’s Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and move it to NYC (later the NY Yankees)
1912 – US Marines send troops to Honduras.
1930 – Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game.
1936 – Semi-automatic rifles adopted by the US Army.
1945 – US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines.
1953 – Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 points in a basketball game.
1956 – Abigail Van Buren’s (Pauline Phillips) “Dear Abby” advice column 1st appears in newspapers.
1964 – Anti-US rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone.
1972 – Led by future star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Milwaukee Bucks beat LA Lakers, 120-104, ending LA’s consecutive win streak at 33, the longest winning streak in major league sports history.
1976 – C.W. McCall song “Convey” hits #1 on the country music charts.
1982 – 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855.
1986 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business.
1989 – Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1991 – Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games.
2001 – Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos.
2007 – Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.
2012 – “Time is Love” single released by Josh Turner (Billboard Song of the Year 2012)
2017 – College Football National Championship, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa: #2 Clemson beats #1 Alabama, 35-31.
2022 – Fire in a Bronx, New York, residential high rise kills 17 and injures 63.
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