1594 Gustavus Adolphus (born) of Sweden (died 1632)
1608 John Milton (born), English poet (died 1674)
1793 New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
1872 In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
1883 Joseph Pilates (born), German physical culturist, developed Pilates (died 1967)
1897 Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde, in Paris.
1898 Emmett Kelly (born), American clown (died 1979)
1905 In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1916 Kirk Douglas (born), American actor
1922 Redd Foxx (born), American comedian and actor (died 1991)
1934 Judi Dench (born), English actress
1950 Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
1953 John Malkovich (born), American actor
1958 The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
1960 The first episode of the world’s longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1965 The Kecksburg UFO incident: a fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
1966 Kirsten Gillibrand (born), American politician
1979 The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
1996 Mary Leakey (died), English archaeologist and anthropologist (born 1913)
2008 The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency.
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