December 13
Today is the 348th day of 2016, there are 18 days left in the year.
1642 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand.
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.
1862 - Confederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office.
1944 - During World War II, the light cruiser USS Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack off Negros Island in the Philippines that claimed 133 lives.
1962 - The United States launched Relay 1 into orbit, a communications satellite which retransmitted television, telephone and digital signals.
1978 - The U.S. Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin honoring a woman.
1981 - Authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. Marital law formally ended in 1983.
1988 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York.
1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town.
1996 - The U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the world body's seventh secretary-general.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency, 36 days after Election Day.
2001 - The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin laden in which the al-Qaeda leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations.
2001 - President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2001 - Five suspected Islamic militants killed nine people in an attack on India's parliament before being killed themselves.
2002 - Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal.
2003 - Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit.
2007 - Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, approved a takeover by Rupert Murdock's News Corp.
Birthdays
27 - Taylor Swift (singer)
27 - Dasha Kapustina (model)
28 - Rickie Fowler (golfer)
29 - Michael Socha (actor)
30 - Amanda Elise Lee (model)
35 - Amy Lee (singer)
46 - Bart Johnson (actor)
49 - Jamie Foxx (actor)
54 - Rex Ryan (football coach)
59 - Steve Buscemi (actor)
66 - Wendie Malick (actress)
68 - Ted Nugent (musician)
87 - Christopher Plummer (actor)
91 - Dick Van Dyke (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 13
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps.
1936 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the Boston Redskins 21-6 in the NFL Championship Game. The Redskins would move to Washington, D.C. the next season.
1942 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Chicago Bears 14-6 to win the NFL Championship Game.
1956 - The Brooklyn Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to the New York Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 in cash; Robinson retires instead of accepting the trade.
1966 - The broadcast rights to the first four Super Bowls were sold to CBS and NBC for a total of $9.5 million.
1967 - The United Soccer Association and the National Pro Soccer League merge into the NASL.
1973 - The Detroit Wheels are granted the first franchise of the World Football League.
1977 - A plane crash kills all members of the University of Evansville men's basketball team.
1983 - The Detroit Pistons defeat the Denver Nuggets 186-184 in triple overtime, combining for an NBA record 370 points.
1986 - #6 Nebraska defeated #9 Illinois (15-9, 15-8, 15-3) to win the Mideast Regional and advance to the Final Four in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament in Stockton, California.
1990 - At the NCAA Volleyball Final Four in College Park, Maryland, #5 Pacific defeated #2 Nebraska (15-13, 11-15, 15-9, 15-12) to eliminate the Huskers in the national semifinals.
1995 - Paul Coffey (Detroit Red Wings) became the first NHL defenseman to reach 1,000 career points.
1996 - Free agent pitcher Roger Clemens signs with the Toronto Blue Jays.
1997 - Michigan defensive back/wide receiver Charles Woodson won the Heisman Trophy.
1998 - Gary Anderson (Minnesota Vikings) kicked six field goals against Baltimore. In the game Anderson set an NFL record for 34 straight field goals without a miss.
1998 - Marshall Faulk set a new Indianapolis Colts single-season record for total yards from scrimmage with 2,090. The record had been held by Eric Dickerson with 2,036.
2000 - The Boston Red Sox sign Manny Ramirez to an eight-year, $160 million contract.
2001 - The New York Yankees sign Jason Giambi to a seven year deal worth $120 million.
2001 - #3 Stanford defeated #2 Nebraska (31-29, 30-28, 30-21) in the national semifinals at the NCAA Volleyball Final Four in San Diego.
2002 - USC quarterback Carson Palmer won the Heisman Trophy.
2007 - The Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released, implicating seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars.
2008 - Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford won the Heisman Trophy.
2008 - #4 Nebraska rallied from a 0-2 set deficit to defeat #5 Washington (14-25, 23-25, 25-17, 26-24, 15-13) in the regional finals of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament in Seattle to advance to the Final Four in Omaha.
2014 - Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota won the Heisman Trophy.
Today is the 348th day of 2016, there are 18 days left in the year.
1642 - Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived in present-day New Zealand.
1769 - Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter.
1862 - Confederate forces dealt Union troops a major defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Virginia.
1918 - President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office.
1944 - During World War II, the light cruiser USS Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack off Negros Island in the Philippines that claimed 133 lives.
1962 - The United States launched Relay 1 into orbit, a communications satellite which retransmitted television, telephone and digital signals.
1978 - The U.S. Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S. coin honoring a woman.
1981 - Authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. Marital law formally ended in 1983.
1988 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat addressed the U.N. General Assembly in Geneva, where it had reconvened after the United States refused to grant Arafat a visa to visit New York.
1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk met for the first time with imprisoned African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, at de Klerk's office in Cape Town.
1996 - The U.N. Security Council chose Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the world body's seventh secretary-general.
2000 - Republican George W. Bush claimed the presidency, 36 days after Election Day.
2001 - The Pentagon released a captured videotape of Osama bin laden in which the al-Qaeda leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations.
2001 - President George W. Bush served formal notice that the United States was pulling out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.
2001 - Five suspected Islamic militants killed nine people in an attack on India's parliament before being killed themselves.
2002 - Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Boston archbishop because of the priest sex abuse scandal.
2003 - Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit.
2007 - Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, approved a takeover by Rupert Murdock's News Corp.
Birthdays
27 - Taylor Swift (singer)
27 - Dasha Kapustina (model)
28 - Rickie Fowler (golfer)
29 - Michael Socha (actor)
30 - Amanda Elise Lee (model)
35 - Amy Lee (singer)
46 - Bart Johnson (actor)
49 - Jamie Foxx (actor)
54 - Rex Ryan (football coach)
59 - Steve Buscemi (actor)
66 - Wendie Malick (actress)
68 - Ted Nugent (musician)
87 - Christopher Plummer (actor)
91 - Dick Van Dyke (actor)
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Today in Sports History - December 13
1922 - Charles Ebbets proposes putting numbers on players' sleeves or caps.
1936 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the Boston Redskins 21-6 in the NFL Championship Game. The Redskins would move to Washington, D.C. the next season.
1942 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Chicago Bears 14-6 to win the NFL Championship Game.
1956 - The Brooklyn Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to the New York Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 in cash; Robinson retires instead of accepting the trade.
1966 - The broadcast rights to the first four Super Bowls were sold to CBS and NBC for a total of $9.5 million.
1967 - The United Soccer Association and the National Pro Soccer League merge into the NASL.
1973 - The Detroit Wheels are granted the first franchise of the World Football League.
1977 - A plane crash kills all members of the University of Evansville men's basketball team.
1983 - The Detroit Pistons defeat the Denver Nuggets 186-184 in triple overtime, combining for an NBA record 370 points.
1986 - #6 Nebraska defeated #9 Illinois (15-9, 15-8, 15-3) to win the Mideast Regional and advance to the Final Four in the NCAA Volleyball Tournament in Stockton, California.
1990 - At the NCAA Volleyball Final Four in College Park, Maryland, #5 Pacific defeated #2 Nebraska (15-13, 11-15, 15-9, 15-12) to eliminate the Huskers in the national semifinals.
1995 - Paul Coffey (Detroit Red Wings) became the first NHL defenseman to reach 1,000 career points.
1996 - Free agent pitcher Roger Clemens signs with the Toronto Blue Jays.
1997 - Michigan defensive back/wide receiver Charles Woodson won the Heisman Trophy.
1998 - Gary Anderson (Minnesota Vikings) kicked six field goals against Baltimore. In the game Anderson set an NFL record for 34 straight field goals without a miss.
1998 - Marshall Faulk set a new Indianapolis Colts single-season record for total yards from scrimmage with 2,090. The record had been held by Eric Dickerson with 2,036.
2000 - The Boston Red Sox sign Manny Ramirez to an eight-year, $160 million contract.
2001 - The New York Yankees sign Jason Giambi to a seven year deal worth $120 million.
2001 - #3 Stanford defeated #2 Nebraska (31-29, 30-28, 30-21) in the national semifinals at the NCAA Volleyball Final Four in San Diego.
2002 - USC quarterback Carson Palmer won the Heisman Trophy.
2007 - The Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released, implicating seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars.
2008 - Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford won the Heisman Trophy.
2008 - #4 Nebraska rallied from a 0-2 set deficit to defeat #5 Washington (14-25, 23-25, 25-17, 26-24, 15-13) in the regional finals of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament in Seattle to advance to the Final Four in Omaha.
2014 - Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota won the Heisman Trophy.
