1621 – Governor Bradford head of the colony of American Plymouth disallows sport on Christmas Day.
1780 – John Hancock becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
1870 – Post cards first used in USA.
1913 – 5th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 76-0 in Annapolis.
1924 – “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip 1st published.
1929 – Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal – 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail.
1930 – 1st scheduled transcontinental air service began.
1952 – First Dutch edition of children’s magazine “Donald Duck”
1955 – Tappan sells 1st microwave oven.
1960 – Cuba nationalizes all remaining US businesses.
1962 – American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
1964 – “The Wrong Way Run”, Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety (NFL’s #1 blooper)
1964 – Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show for 1st time.
1974 – US Air Force fires 1st ICBM.
1976 – Governor Wallace grants full pardon to Clarence Norris, last known survivor of 9 Scottsboro Boys who were convicted in 1931 rape.
1978 – Padres Gaylord Perry is 1st to win Cy Young in both leagues (NL)
1994 – Susan Smith (SC) claims her 2 kids were carjacked (she actually killed them)
2001 – Windows XP first becomes available.
2004 – Fidel Castro, Cuba’s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing $80 million in damage.
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