1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.
1906 – San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city.
1912 – Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1923 – 74,000 people (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium in New York City.
1925 – World’s Fair opens in Chicago.
1934 – First “Washateria” (laundromat} opens in Fort Worth, Texas.
1942 – The Doolittle Raid: James Doolittle leads the first air raid on mainland Japan, bombing Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1947 – “New Orleans,” an American musical romance film, premieres with Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday, in her only feature film, play supporting roles.
1955 – First “Walk/Don’t Walk” lighted street signals installed.
1958 – National League single game record crowd of 78,682 as the Los Angeles Dodgers win their first home game over the San Francisco Giants 6-5 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
1964 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax strikes out the side on nine pitches for the major league-best third time in his career.
1973 – The government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program, established in 1959 by President Dwight Eisenhower.
1983 – Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for the novel “The Color Purple.”
1986 – IBM produces the first megabit chip.
1990 – Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines.
1999 – Wayne Gretzky plays his last game in the National Hockey League as his New York Rangers lose 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
2007 – The US Supreme Court upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
2018 – “Black Panther” is the first film shown at a commercial cinema in 35 years in Saudi Arabia as cinemas reopen.
2022 – Russia begins a major new offensive in Donbas during their invasion of Ukraine.
2023 – Fox News settles lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million, moments before trial, with Fox admitting it had defamed Dominion during the 2020 election by broadcasting conspiracy theories.
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