Skeleton of a mastodon unveiled (Charles Willson Peale), 1801
Declaration of Lima, 1938
New York policemen ordered to stop using tubular whistles, 1959
Caruso’s last US performance, 1920
Fire in Library of Congress and part of the Capitol building, 1851
KKK formed (Pulaski, Tennessee), 1865
Apollo 8 (US) became the first manned craft to orbit the moon, 1968
Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart married, 1949
Reverand Norman Vincent Peale, author and radio evangelist, died, 1993
John Muir, naturalist and author, died, 1914
First color and black-and-white telecast sponsored (“Dragnet”), 1953
Methodist Episcopal Church in America founded, 1784
First solar heating system (Dr. Maria Telkes, Dover, Massachusetts), 1948
Treaty of Ghent (end of the War of 1812) signed, 1814
Louis Francis Sockalexis, first native American baseball player, died, 1913
First surface-to-surface guided missile launched, 1942
Admiral Jean Louis Darlan, French administrator of North Africa, killed, 1942
Hugh Miller, geological writer, committed suicide, 1856