1956 - Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 Robinson retires.
1977 - 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1983 - 9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
1991 - Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
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-Qaida leader said the deaths and destruction achieved by the Sept. 11 attacks exceeded his "most optimistic" expectations.
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.
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