1908 – First United States-Japanese baseball game had the A.J. Reach Company’s “Oriental Tour” defeat Waseda University in Tokyo 5-0.
1919 – Labor conference committee urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week.
1927 – First snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin.
1930 – The first American football game broadcast to England had Harvard beating Yale 13-0.
1932 – Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered for gasoline dispensers.
1934 – “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” is first heard on Eddie Cantor’s show.
1943 – The Cairo Conference: United States President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek meet in Egypt to discuss ways to defeat Japan during World War II.
1950 – 79 people die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, New York.
1955 – RCA Records makes its best investment, paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract.
1959 – The American Football League conducts its first draft in Minneapolis with the eight clubs selecting their playing rosters for the inaugural 1960 season.
1961 – St. Louis Hawks’ Bob Pettit sets an NBA record by making all 19 of his free throws.
1963 – Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th president after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
1972 – The United States ends a 22-year travel ban to China.
1980 – Tanker Georgia spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain causes the ship to leak in Pilottown, Louisiana.
1985 – Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for mating of STS 61-C.
1996 – O.J. Simpson takes the stand as a hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is “absolutely not true” that he murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
2005 – Ted Koppel retires from the late night television news program “Nightline with Ted Koppel” after 25 years with the show, 41 Emmy Awards and 42 years with ABC.
2012 – Two people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas.
2020 – G20 virtual two-day summit ends with a pledge to ensure affordable access to vaccines for all.
2022 – The United Kingdom faces a bigger hit to its economy from the global energy crisis than any other advanced economy, projecting to shrink by 0.4%, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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