1948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")

1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander

1957 "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway

1959 Penn State’s Nittany Lions beat Alabama, 7-0, in the first Liberty Bowl football game

1959 Walter Williams, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the US Civil War, dies in Houston, Texas at age 117.

1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)

1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight

1960 Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl was released on RCA Victor Records

1962 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland

1962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission

1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released

1972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth

1974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st VP

1974 The personal computer revolution was launched quietly on this day when the Altair 8800, a do-it-yourself computer kit, went on sale for $397

1975 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1979 The Senate green lighted a $1.5 billion loan to help put the auto maker Chrysler back on its feet. In the short term, though, the loan did little to staunch the bleeding

1980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts

1980 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages

1983 After a grueling and sometimes bloody six weeks on the picket line, striking Greyhound workers agreed to sign off on a new contract and head back to work

1984 Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people

1985 ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released ‘The Mouth’ from all TV commitments

1985 ABC Sports announces that sportscaster Howard Cosell will no longer be providing television commentary.

1985 NFL kicker Jan Stenerud announces his retirement, leaving behind a record of most career field goals (373).

1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile

1988 NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars

1988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated

1989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route

1991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live

1991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin

1994 Great Britain's prestigious Rolls-Royce, a luxury automobile maker, announced that its future cars would feature 12-cylinder motors manufactured by Germany's BMW

1154 Henry II becomes King of England

1974 Nelson Rockefeller sworn in as American Vice-President

1902 The birth of Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor

1906 The birth of Leonid Brezhnev, Former President and General secretary of the Soviet Union

1915 The birth of Edith Piaf, French singer

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