1866 – President Andrew Johnson ends civil war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
1912 – Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power.
1917 – President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany.
1921 – Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new “Theory of relativity.”
1932 – “Tarzan the Ape Man” released starring Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the first of his 12 Tarzan films.
1942 – USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25 departs from San Francisco.
1954 – Plans to build Disneyland first announced.
1956 – Soap operas “As the World Turns” and “Edge of Night” premiere on television.
1958 – Antillean Brewery (Amstel beer) opens.
1968 – “2001 A Space Odyssey” directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
1973 – CBS radio begins on-the-hour news 24 hours a day.
1978 – Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova wins her first Women’s Tennis Association Tour Championship in beating Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 7-6, 6-4 at Oakland Coliseum Arena.
1978 – TV show “Dallas” starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Bel Geddes premieres on CBS as a five week mini-series. Ratings success leads to a 13 year run.
1985 – The NCAA Rules Committee adopts a 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season in an effort to eliminate stalling.
1989 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills Country Club: Juli Inkster leads wire-to-wire to win her second Dinah Shore event, 5 strokes ahead of runners-up JoAnne Carner and Tammie Green.
1996 – Detroit Tigers slugger Cecil Fielder steals his first base in 1,097th career game, a 10-6 win at the Minnesota Twins. It’s the most games played in Major League Baseball history before first stolen base.
2006 – Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
2010 – Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant signs a three-year contract extension with the National Basketball Association’s Los Angeles Lakers worth $87 million.
2019 – Canada is warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world, according to a federal report, increasing 2.3% in northern Canada.
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