1868 – Wilkie Collins’ “The Moonstone” is first serialized in “All the Year Round” owned by Charles Dickins
1947 – “Park Avenue” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 72 performances
1976 – AFC Championship, Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Oakland Raiders, 16-10
1981 – “Red Right 88”, trailing 14–12 Clevelands Browns attempt an end zone pass play (Red Right 88) and a game-winning field goal in the final minute, but pass intercepted by Raiders safety Mike Davis and Oakland wins
1994 – 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
1998 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
2000 – After 2 months, Catherine Hartley and Fiona Thornewill, reach the South Poll, the same day as Edmund Hillary 48 years before
2001 – Rapper Vanilla Ice spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife’s hair during a row
2004 – College Football, 6th BCS National Championship, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans: #2 LSU beats #1 Oklahoma, 21-14 at 70th Sugar Bowl
2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia