1887 – Austria-Hungary, Italy and Great Britain sign Balkan military treaty
1936 – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win
1938 – Italian scientist Enrico Fermi receives the Nobel Prize for Physics (work on reduced radioactivity)
1939 – National Football League Championship, Dairy Bowl, West Allis, Wisconsin: Green Bay Packers beat New York Giants, 27-0; Packers 5th title
1954 – Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1961 – US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
1965 – Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
1970 – Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn chooses not to claim his Nobel Prize in Literature for fear that the USSR would prevent his return afterwards. Accepts in 1974 after he was deported.
1994 – 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
2001 – “The Fellowship of the Ring” Lord of the Rings film directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in London