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In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1877, inventor Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.
In 1942, the Alaska highway across Canada was formally opened.
In 1964, New York’s Verrazano Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island, opened.
In 1969, the Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F.
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Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
In 1973, President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, disclosed the existence of an 18 ½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
In 1979, a mob attacked the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing two Americans.
In 1980, 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas.
In 1985, former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.)
In 1995, Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end 3 ½ years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Also in 1995 France detonated a fourth underground nuclear blast at its test site in the South Pacific. Also in 1995 the Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 5,000 mark for the first time.
In 1997, U.N. arms inspectors
returned to Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s threeweek standoff with the United Nations over the presence of Americans on the team.
In 2000, in a setback for George W. Bush, the Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore’s request to keep the presidential recounts going.
In 2002, in a historic eastward shift, NATO expanded its membership into the borders of the former Soviet Union as it invited seven former communist countries under its security umbrella.
In 2005, General Motors Corp. announced it would close 12 facilities and lay off 30,000 workers in North America.
In 2006, Kathryn Johnston, 92, was killed in a hail of bullets during a botched drug raid by Atlanta police.
In 2007, New Hampshire set its earliest-ever presidential primary, deciding on Jan. 8, 2008.
In 2013, Senate Democrats invoked the so-called nuclear option to end the minority party’s ability to use filibusters to block most presidential nominations.