1905 – Telimco makes the first advertisement for a radio set by advertising a set for $8.50 in Scientific American magazine which claimed to receive signals for up to one mile.
1920 – The first Thanksgiving Parade is held in Philadelphia.
1930 – The Sporting News picks Bill Terry as National League Most Valuable Player and Joe Cronin as American League MVP.
1937 – World’s Fair of Paris closes after 31.2 million people visited.
1940 – Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz’s “Knock Knock.”
1949 – Gene Autry’s single “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” appears on music charts. Songwriter Johnny Marks adapted the poem written by his brother-in-law Robert L. May for Montgomery Ward department stores.
1951 – 17 people die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama.
1955 – Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between states.
1960 – “Amos ‘n Andy” made its last broadcast on CBS radio.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1971 – 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn quarterback.
1973 – United States cuts maximum speed limit to 55 mph as an energy conservation measure.
1979 – Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time, a pairing that lasts 23 years and becomes one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history.
1984 – William Schroeder is the second person to receive the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.
1988 – The Convention of the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (CRAMRA) was signed, but the treaty was never ratified by any nation.
1996 – After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade in Anaheim, California, ends.
2009 – Flooding in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as a powerful storm brings three years worth of rain in four hours, killing over 150 people and sweeping thousands of cars away during Hajj.
2017 – Longest known frozen embryo to be successfully born is delivered in Tennessee by Emma Wren Gibson after being frozen for 24 years.
2018 – Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers sets an NFL single-game record, completing 25 straight passes in a 45-10 win against the Arizona Cardinals. Mark Brunell and David Carr previously shared record with 22 straight completions. Rivers also sets an NFL record for best single-game completion percentage (28 of 29) with at least 20 attempts, going 28 of 29.
2020 – Caitlin Clark makes her collegiate debut for the Iowa Hawkeyes, recording 27 points, eight rebounds, and four assists against Northern Iowa.
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