574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity. He abdicates the throne in favor of his general Tiberius, proclaiming him Caesar.
1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1842 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic.
1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers.
1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1941 – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1963 – Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.
1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
1993 – Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the Long Island Rail Road in Nassau County, New York.
1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1842 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic.
1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers.
1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1941 – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1963 – Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia.
1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
1993 – Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the Long Island Rail Road in Nassau County, New York.
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Ureli Corelli Hill, first president and conductor of the New York Philharmonic Society
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Births
1863 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (d. 1914)
1910 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (d. 1978)
Deaths
43 BC – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (b. 106 BC)
1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)