1866 - Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
1925 - Record 73,000 pay to watch Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
1938 - 117 Spanish knights under capt Piet Laros return to Netherlands
1939 - 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB)
1956 - Soviet gymnast Viktor Chukarin follows his parallel bars gold medal with the individual all-round title and teams gold at the Melbourne Olympics
1957 - Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
1992 - Davis Cup Tennis, Ft. Worth, Texas: Jim Courier defeats Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to give the US a 3-1 victory
1993 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 5 km 7:13.29
2010 - Record price for a printed book when a first edition of "The Birds of America" by John James Audubon auctioned at Sotheby's, London, England, for £7,321,250
2014 - 23rd SEC Championship Game: #1 Alabama beats #14 Missouri, 42-13
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