1850 – Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1893 – 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1909 – Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1942 – Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
1959 – “Rocky and His Friends” debuts on ABC
1984 – NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1987 – France performs nuclear test
1995 – “Sacrilege” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1997 – McCaughey septuplets born to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy.
2018 – Ivanka Trump sent “hundred” of emails from her personal account about government business according to Washington Post report