1696 – Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1787 – Delaware becomes 1st state the US constitution.
1842 – New York Philharmonic’s 1st concert.
1868 – Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin, Missouri, kills 1.
1891 – 52nd US Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session.
1917 – US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I.
1926 – Gas refrigerator patented.
1934 – Wiley Post discovers jet stream.
1946 – Fire at Windcoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119.
1953 – WCCB TV channel 38 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting.
1963 – Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.
1967 – Otis Redding records “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay”
1985 – 51st Heisman Trophy Award: Bo Jackson, Auburn (RB).
1995 – US space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter.
2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal air marshals at Miami International
Airport.
Airport.
2013 – 9th ACC Championship Game: #1 Florida State beats #20 Duke, 24-7.
2015 – Time magazine readers name Bernie Sanders their ‘person of the year’.
2015 – US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US.
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