1800

Congress held its first session in the partially completed U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

1968

The last minutes of a tense NFL matchup on NBC between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders were preempted by the children’s film “Heidi.” The network received thousands of calls from angry viewers.

1973

President Richard Nixon told a gathering of Associated Press managing editors: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”

1989

Czechoslovakian students demonstrated in Prague against Communist rule; hundreds of thousands joined the protests in the following days. The protests led to the resignation of the Communist Party’s leadership on Nov. 28 that year.