1902 – Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts, killing 6,000 people and becoming one of the three largest eruptions of the 20th century
1924 – Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven “for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram”
1940 – Adolf Hitler meets the Head of the French State Marshal Philippe Pétain
1944 – US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
1948 – WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 – AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1980 – Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1997 – Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 on comet and asteroid mission
2017 – Dog doping scandal confirmed by officials of Iditarod, Alaskan dog sled race after dogs test positive for a banned substance