1989 - Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
1990 - Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
1990 - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1991 - "Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
1992 - AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
1992 - Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan
1992 - Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1994 - South Africa beat Australia in the Sydney Test by 5 runs
1994 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1994 - United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
1995 - "Christmas Carol" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 18 perfs
1995 - "Passion" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 280 performances
1996 - "Crazy after You" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 1622 perfs
1996 - "Fool Moon" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after * performances
1996 - 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000
1997 - Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House
Famous Kansas Events for this day ..
1861 - The sixth and last Kansas Territorial Legislature convenes, and again moves its meeting from Lecompton to Lawrence.
1911 - Judge John C. Pollock, U.S. District Court holds that liquor bought legally in other states could be delivered to Kansas
1911 - Judge John C. Pollock, U.S. District Court rules that sellers of beer in Kansas must be tried in state courts.
1918 - As part of War effort, Dodge City board of education abolishes German classes in high school.
1920 - Bank robbers blew the safe, shot and wounded John Schrader, the bank president, and escaped with 24 two-cent stamps from the State Bank of Stanley.
1920 - Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen begins his first season as basketball coach at KU
1927 - NAT awards Travel Air contract for 7 Monoplanes.
1963 - Learjet Corp. begins business in Wichita
Today In History original script written and produced by RGA. Selected Archives by Bruce T. Goldman