1786 – Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr. Hall, NYC)
1872 – US Congress endorsed penny post card.
1905 – US President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal services.
1935 – US Open Men’s Golf, Oakmont CC: 25 year old club pro Sam Parks Jr, with no prior tournament wins, beats Scotsman jimmy Thomson by 2 strokes.
1942 – Bing Crosby records “Silent Night”
1948 – “Texaco Star Theater” premieres on NBC-TV, with “Mr. Television” Milton Berle being made the permanent emcee in September of the same year.
1953 – Cluster of 6 tornadoes touches down in Flint, Michigan killing 113.
1958 – LPGA Championship, Churchill Valley CC: Mickey Wright wins first of 13 major titles by 6 strokes from Fay Crocker.
1961 – Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)
1963 – American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes.
1964 – “The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)”, recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean, is released.
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam.
1966 – NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970.
1969 – MLB legend Mickey Mantle gives his farewell retirement speech during “Mickey Mantle Day” at Yankee Stadium, 60,096 see #7 retired.
1978 – Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes “Mormon Will” is a forgery.
1987 – Oliver North’s secretary Fawn Hall testifies at Iran-Contra hearing.
1992 – NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time.
2011 – 45th CMT Music Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton wins.
2017 – Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told “lies plain and simple”
2018 – World’s most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia.
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