1761 Marie Tussaud (born), French sculptor, founded Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum (died 1850)
1824 United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1862 In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1866 George Everest (died), Welsh geographer and surveyor, namesake of Mt. Everest (born 1790)
1885 First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).
1913 Mary Martin (born), American actress and singer (died 1990)
1913 The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1919 Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (she had been elected to that position on November 28).
1933 Lou Rawls (born), American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)
1935 Woody Allen (born), American screenwriter, director, and actor
1945 Bette Midler (born), American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1948 Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book; the case remains unsolved and is “one of Australia’s most profound mysteries.”
1949 Pablo Escobar (born), Colombian drug lord (died 1993)
1952 The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
1955 In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1960 Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
1964 J. B. S. Haldane (died), English-Indian geneticist (born 1892)
1969 The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1969 The first legislation to limit aircraft noise levels at airports is introduced in U.S. Federal Air Regulation, Part 36.
1981 The AIDS virus is officially recognized.
1988 Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1990 Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
2006 Bruce Trigger (died), Canadian archaeologist (born 1937)
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