1899 – Walter Camp publishes his first All-American football team in Collier’s.
1916 – In response to pressure from President Woodrow Wilson, Germany notifies the US State Department that it will abide by strict international rules of maritime warfare.
1923 – Baltimore Sun warns of the Ku Klux Klan.
1927 – Harlem Globetrotters play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois.
1934 – “Flash Gordon” comic strip created and drawn by Alex Raymond debuts.
1944 – US Air Force announces production of first jet fighters, the Bell P-59.
1948 – President Harry Truman raises taxes for the Marshall Plan to assist in rebuilding Europe after WWII.
1955 – 20-year-old future world heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson scores a 5th-round TKO of Willie Troy in a non-title super middleweight bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
1961 – First NFL Playoff Bowl (runner-up bowl) – Detroit beats Cleveland 17-16.
1963 – First class postage stamps raised from 4 cents to 5 cents.
1969 – Congress doubles presidential salary.
1972 – Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Atlanta Hawks 134-90 for their 33rd straight win, the longest winning streak in major professional sports.
1979 – NFC Championship, LA Memorial Coliseum: Dallas Cowboys beat Los Angeles Rams 28-0.
1980 – President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation to bail out the Chrysler Corporation with a $1.5 billion loan.
1992 – AT&T releases video telephone. It cost $1,499.
1998 – Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an affair with President Bill Clinton.
1999 – President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial begins in the Senate after the House votes to impeach him for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
2018 – It snows in the Sahara desert – 15 inches reported in Ain Sefra, Northwest Algeria.
2021 – Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla, becomes the world’s richest person, worth $180 billion, overtaking Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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