1876 – NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A’s expelled from NL for not completing sked
1889 – W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s comic opera “The Gondoliers” premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London
1941 – Adolf Hitler issues “Nacht und Nebel Erlass” (Night and Fog Directive), against anti-Nazi resistance fighters in occupied territories; targets sent to concentration camps and/or murdered
1968 – Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
1972 – Apollo 17 launched, the final manned lunar landing mission where the crew takes the famous “blue marble” photo of the entire Earth
1988 – 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless
1991 – A J Kitt, US, wins World Skiing Cup
1992 – Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
2018 – Comedian Kevin Hart steps down as 2019 Oscars host after his history of homophobic statements is revealed
2020 – Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs to the Universal Music Publishing Group for over $300 million