1857-Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1876-Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1912-Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1925-American Negro Congress organizes
1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-New York)
1927-Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1939-Glamour magazine begins publishing
1944-Japans begins offensive in Burma
1977-Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections
1977-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter
1986-Wayne Gretzky breaks own NHL season record with 136th assist
1994-ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
1994-US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship
1996-Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists
1997-11th Soul Train Music Awards