1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge
1941 – Groundbreaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
1941 – WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to NYC
1965 – “King Family Show” (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
1968 – Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1973 – Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs
1986 – “Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood” opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 performances
1993 – Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
2009 – UK officially enters recession as GDP falls by 1.5% in the last quarter of 2008 following a 0.6% drop in the third quarter, with unemployment growing by 131,000 to 1.92 million (6.1%)
2020 – Actress Annabella Sciorra testifies in court that Harvey Weinstein raped her 25 years ago at his trial in New York