1901 – President William McKinley visits San Francisco.
1908 – Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield.
1910 – Second NAACP conference in New York City.
1919 – New York Yankees and Washington Senators play second straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15 innings, at the Polo Grounds. The teams played to a scoreless tie in 12 innings the previous day.
1926 – Airship Norge is the first vessel to fly over the North Pole, led by Roald Amundsen and piloted by Umberto Nobile.
1928 – Second Opium Law introduced – international law to control drugs.
1932 – Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey.
1942 – Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of the Mississippi River.
1955 – Chicago Cubs Sam “Toothpick” Jones is the first African-American to pitch a no-hitter, winning 4-0 over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Wrigley Field.
1960 – Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra television special and sings Sinatra’s 1957 Cy Coleman hit “Witchcraft,” and Sinatra performs Presley’s 1956 classic “Love Me Tender.”
1967 – Columbia Pictures releases “Good Times,” a musical comedy western starring Sonny & Cher and George Sanders. It was Cher’s first starring role and also is the feature debut of director William Friedkin.
1970 – Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run.
1979 – Chris Evert’s 125-match tennis winning streak on clay comes to an end.
1986 – President Ronald Reagan appoints Dr. James C. Fletcher NASA administrator.
1995 – Dow Jones closes at 4,430.59, the 5th straight day it sets a new record high.
1997 – Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami.
2003 – Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan.
2014 – Voters in Eastern Ukraine vote for self-rule in referendum.
2019 – Cuba announces more rationing of products such as rice and beans due to an United States trade embargo and hoarding.
2020 – Coronavirus task force testifies to the Senate that the United States “is not out of the woods yet,” the pandemic is not under control and risks surge in cases it reopens too soon.
2021 – Republicans vote to demote their third ranking member Liz Cheney from party leadership after she publicly rebuked Donald Trump for lies about the election.
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