1896 – First certified public accountants receive certificates in New York.
1912 – Boston Braves Major League Baseball franchise owner James Gaffney buys the Allston Golf Club on Commonwealth Avenue with a plan to construct a ballpark there. The groundbreaking for Braves Field starts on March 20, 1915.
1913 – Ford Motor Company institutes world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford.
1917 – Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha, Nebraska.
1921 – First United States helium-filled dirigible makes its first flight.
1929 – Game of Bingo invented by American toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe.
1936 – Bell Labs test coaxial cable for TV use.
1942 – Gasoline rationed in the United States.
1949 – Major League Baseball attendance for the season is 20.2 million, down from 20.9 in 1948. The New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians each finish with over 2 million, but the St. Louis Browns fall to 270,000.
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.
1956 – Led by future Basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, the United States wins its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal with an 89-55 victory over the Soviet Union at the Melbourne Games.
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 level.
1969 – Government holds its first draft lottery since World War II.
1978 – President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size.
1988 – NBC bids a record $401 million to capture television broadcasting rights for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games.
1998 – Exxon announces a $73.7 billion deal to buy Mobil, creating Exxon-Mobil, the world’s largest company.
2005 – Musical “The Color Purple,” based on the book by Alice Walker, opens on Broadway. The play is produced by Oprah Winfrey and stars LaChanze (Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical)
2008 – The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research announces.
2015 – After finishing the season with the largest payroll in Major League Baseball history at $298.3 million, the Los Angeles Dodgers are assigned the largest luxury tax bill ever, $43.7 million.
2017 – President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI.
2019 – Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China.
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