1824 – US House of Representatives begins to decide outcome of election deadlock between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (Adams wins)
1878 – 1st White House telephone installed.
1903 – “The Great Train Robbery”, the 1st western film released.
1913 – Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford.
1913 – 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)
1924 – George and Ira Gershwin’s musical “Lady Be Good” premieres in NYC.
1929 – Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S. Lowe.
1936 – Bell Labs test coaxial cable for TV use.
1942 – Gasoline rationed in US.
1949 – Major League Baseball announces attendance for the season is 20.2 million, down from 20-9 in 1948: New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians each finish with over 2.2 million, but the St. Louis Browns fall to 270,000.
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation.
1955 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
1963 – Wendell Scott wins the Grand National Series Jacksonville 200 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Florida, becoming the first black driver to win a race at NASCAR’s premier level.
1973 – Jack Nicklaus finishes at 13-under-par 275 to win the Walt Disney World Open by 1 stroke from Mason Rudolph; becomes the first player to reach $2 million in PGA tour career earnings.
1982 – Dentist Barney B. Clark gets 1st artificial heart.
1988 – NBC bids a record $401 million to capture television broadcasting right for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games.
1989 – Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels contract.
1994 – Jim Baker, American televangelist, convicted of fraud is released from jail.
2008 – The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
2017 – President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
2019 – Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China.
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