1556 – King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1904 – III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in St Louis
1914 – The US Army withdraws from Mexico
1942 – Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor
1943 – 1st printing of illegal “Warheid”
1947 – French government of Schumann forms
1954 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.
1996 – 61st Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 24-23 in Birmingham
2017 – Papua New Guinea Police storm Manus Island refugee camp, forcibly removing asylum seekers
2020 – US President-elect Joe Biden introduces his new cabinet including Alejandro Mayorkas 1st Latino head of homeland security, Avril Haines 1st female director of national intelligence