1818 – Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
1921 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win 2nd Championship; beat Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
1930 – Otto Ender forms Austrian government
1949 – KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
1971 – US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa’s jail term
1989 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
1994 – 3rd SEC Championship Game: #6 Florida beats #3 Alabama, 24-23
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere
2005 – 10th Big 12 Championship Game: #2 Texas beats Colorado, 70-3
2014 – Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns