General George Washington engages a small British rearguard unit at the Battle of Princeton, winning his final victory of the New Jersey Campaign. Washington's maneuver evaded a much larger British force under General Charles Cornwallis and captured the British garrison at Princeton.
Alaska enters the Union as the 49th state. After Congressional approval the previous year, Alaskan statehood made it the largest and least densely populated state in the Union.
The Eisenhower Administration closes its embassy in Havana and officially ends its diplomatic relationship with Cuba following Cuba's continuing trade relations with the Soviet Union.
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