1869 – North Carolina legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law.
1877 – Catcher’s mask first used in a baseball game.
1908 – Fire at the Boston Blacking Company, a producer of leather dye, spreads by high wind, kills 19 and makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
1924 – WLS-AM in Chicago begins radio transmissions.
1931 – Joe McCarthy debuts as New York Yankees manager.
1934 – The Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1938 – First law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses in New York.
1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd president.
1954 – Bill Haley and His Comets record “Rock Around Clock”
1955 – Polio vaccine treated by Jonas Salk announced to be “safe and effective” and is given full approval by the Food and Drug Adminstration.
1966 – First B-52 bombing of North Vietnam.
1970 – New York Yankees dedicate plaques to Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio.
1979 – Soviet-crewed Soyuz 33 returns to Earth.
1985 – 16th Shuttle Mission- STS-51-Discovery 4 launched with Senator Jake Garn aboard.
1987 – Texaco files for bankruptcy.
1992 – Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle.
1999 – President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2009 – US Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips aboard Maersk Alabama, killing three Somali pirates and capturing a fourth.
2020 – Huge storm system produces more than 40 tornadoes from Texas to South Carolina, killing 32 people across six states.
2023 – Environmental Protection Agency proposes a landmark set of pollution regulations to drive down greenhouse gas emissions, including electric vehicles making up 67% of new passenger-car sales by 2032.
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