1799 – American inventor Eli Whitney receives a government contract for 10,000 muskets.
1868 – North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh.
1919 – John McGraw, Charles A. Stoneman and Francis Xavier McQuade buy New York Giants baseball team.
1932 – Racing Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro wins his first race at Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico at 16 years old.
1940 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers minor league players.
1943 – World War II: Casablanca Conference begins between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and other Allied representatives.
1950 – United States recalls all consular officials from China.
1952 – “Today Show” premieres with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV.
1956 – Little Richard releases single “Tutti Frutti.”
1962 – 12th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Western Conference beats Eastern Conference 31-30. Most Valuable Players were Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Henry Jordan.
1967 – Sonny & Cher release single “Beat Goes On.”
1969 – 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers.
1976 – Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves.
1981 – US Federal Communications Commission frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish.
1987 – Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1995 – Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex’s $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees: President Clinton approves a $20 billion US aid package for Mexico.
2001 – NFC Championship, Giants Stadium, East Rutherford: New York Giants beat Minnesota Vikings 41-0.
2013 – Mike Pence sworn in as 50th governor of Indiana.
2019 – Americans’ chance of dying from an accidental opioid overdose higher than a car accident for the first time, according to the US National Safety Council.
2019 – President Donald Trump denies he is a Russian agent after New York Times article states the FBI started an investigation and the Washington Post raised issued over a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2020 – Game show Jeopardy’s “greatest of all time” tournament won by Ken Jennings.
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