1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872…close to 1,000 buildings destroyed.
1904 – 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes.
1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin.
1930 – 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama.
1932 – Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba, kills 2,500.
1938 – Al Capp, cartoonist of Li’l Abner, creates Sadie Hawkins Day.
1944 – Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize.
1946 – US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze.
1965 – Hurricane hits north east US/Canada.
1965 – Willie Mays named NL MVP.
1969 – “Bridge over Troubled Waters” single recorded by Simon & Garfunkel.
1982 – Brewer’s Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously.
1984 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“3 Servicemen”) completed.
1991 – Houston’s Roman Anderson is 1st NCAA to kick 400 points.
1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay $1.03 billion to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing – largest civil settlement in US history.
2008 – American tennis star Venus Williams wins her first career year-ending title; beats Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-7, 6-0, 6-2 in the WTA Tour Championship final at Doha, Qatar.
2015 – “Love Yourself” single released by Justin Bieber (Billboard Song of the Year 2016, Grammy Song of the Year)
2020 – Drugmaker BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people.
2020 – US Attorney General William Barr controversially approves federal investigation into voter fraud for the US elections.
2020 – US recorded COVID-19 cases pass 10 million, with 1 million new cases recorded in 10 days. Death toll over 237,000.
2021 – Actor Paul Rudd is named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive.
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