1522 – Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope
1942 – Count Basie records “One O’Clock Jump”
1946 – “Nellie Bly” opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 16 performances
1950 – T. S. Eliot’s play “The Cocktail Party” premieres in NYC
1952 – Jawaharlal Nehru’s Congress party wins general election in India
1956 – “Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)” closes at Golden NYC after 849 performances
1981 – “Shakespeare’s Cabaret” opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 54 performances
1987 – B.B. King is inducted into the “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”
1995 – 52nd Golden Globes: “Forrest Gump”, Tom Hanks, and Jessica Lange win
2004 – Minnesota Wild set an NHL record for 2 fastest goals, when Jim Dowd and Richard Park score just 3 seconds apart in the final 15 seconds of a 4-2 win over visiting Chicago Blackhawks