1842 – Mount St. Helens in Washington erupts.
1910 – Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs.
1919 – Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week.
1927 – George Gershwin’s “Funny Face” premieres in NYC.
1930 – Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit.
1932 – Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered.
1934 – “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town” 1st heard on Eddie Cantor’s show.
1936 – 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC, Pinehurst NC.
1943 – US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island.
1950 – 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft. Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18.
1955 – RCA Records make its best investment paying $35,000 to Sun Records for Elvis Presley’s contract.
1957 – Simon & Garfunkel appear on “American Bandstand” as “Tom & Jerry”
1961 – Producers Albert Broccoli & Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
1972 – US ends 22 year travel ban to China.
1984 – Fred Rogers of PBS “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood” presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution.
1985 – Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,548 immigrants become US citizens.
1992 – Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women.
1996 – O.J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is “absolutely not true”
1999 – Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, and his mother are sighted off of Florida’s coast by U.S. Coast Guard.
2008 – Youtube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
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