1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings were destroyed.
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is first United States President to visit another country (Puerto Rico and Panama)
1918 – Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I.
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.
1937 – St Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named National League Most Valuable Player.
1944 – Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize.
1946 – President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze.
1953 – Supreme Court rules Major League Baseball exempt from anti-trust laws.
1961 – Professional Golfers’ Association eliminates Caucasians only rule.
1965 – Hurricane hits northeast US/Canada.
1965 – Willie Mays named National League Most Valuable Player.
1969 – “An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte”, music special with arrangements by Michel Legrand, premieres on NBC-TV.
1978 – North American Soccer League (NASL) realigns its 24 teams into 6 divisions.
1984 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“Three Servicemen”) completed.
1998 – Brokerage houses are ordered to pay $1.03 billion to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing – largest civil settlement in United States history.
2004 – 38th Country Music Award: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride & Keith Urban win.
2008 – American tennis star Venus Williams wins her first career year-ending title. She beats Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-7, 6-0, 6-2 in the WTA Tour Championship final at Doha, Qatar.
2017 – Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls in “Washington Post” report.
2020 – The year becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Theta named record 29th storm.
2020 – Attorney General William Barr approves federal investigation into voter fraud for elections.
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