1981 - Bill C Davis' "Mass Appeal" premieres in NYC
1986 - Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1998 - Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol, but the US never ratifies it
2022 - US Mid-term elections: Democrats retain control of the Senate with Catherine Cortez Masto's victory in Nevada 50-49, with run-off in Georgia still to be decided
2025 - Final US penny is minted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; manufacturing cost of the1-cent coin, produced for 232 years, had risen to nearly 3.7 cents, an estimated 1.4 billion remain in circulation

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