1775 – First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred.
1828 – Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President.
1834 – First US dental society organized (NY)
1883 – 48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes.
1907 – George Cohan’s musical “Talk of the Town” premieres in NYC.
1911 – Willis Carrier presents his influential “Rational Psychrometric Formulae” on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
1922 – First successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC.
1931 – Alka Seltzer goes on sale.
1946 – 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB).
1948 – 1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn in.
1950 – Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast.
1956 – Wilt Chamberlain’s 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52).
1960 – “Camelot” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 873 performances.
1967 – 1st human heart transplant performed by Dr. Christian Barnard in South Africa.
1971 – US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa’s jail term.
1983 – 49th Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Rozier, Nebraska (RB).
1997 – Golden State Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, four-year, $32 million, contract terminated for attacking P.J. Carlesimo.
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
2011 – 7th ACC Championship Game: #21 Clemson beats #5 Virginia Tech, 38-10.
2015 – US Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces all combat roles in US armed forces will be open to women.
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