1939 - Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed
1949 - First Emmy Awards NBC's "The Necklace", Shirley Dinsdale & Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win
1949 - First Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins
1951 ― U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea
1955 - Russia ends state of war with Germany
1955 - Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years
1955 ― U.S. & Panama sign canal treaty
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released
1989 - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1993 - Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1985 - "We are the World" is recorded