1889 – George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time.
1909 – First credit union forms in the United States in Manchester, New Hampshire.
1917 – United States declares war on Germany, enters World War I.
1924 – Four planes leave Seattle on first successful around-the-world flight.
1930 – Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar.
1936 – Tornado kills 203 and injures 1,800 in Gainesville, Georgia.
1938 – Teflon is invented by American chemist Roy J. Plunkett at DuPont.
1947 – First Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne and Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements.
1959 – 31st Academy Awards: “Gigi”, Susan Hayward and David Niven win.
1968 – Gas and gunpowder explosions at sporting goods store in downtown Richmond, Indiana, kills 41 and injures more than 150.
1973 – United States launches the Pioneer 11 (Pioneer G) probe to study Jupiter & Saturn.
1979 – Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a major league skipper, a 5-3 Orioles victory over the Chicago White Sox.
1980 – Post It Notes introduced.
1984 – 11th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41C): Challenger 5 launches. It’s the first time 11 people are in space.
1987 – Middleweight World Boxing Championship bout: Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler at Caesars Palace in Paradise, Nevada.
1992 – Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0.
1997 – The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf Championship at Desert Mountain Golf Club: Gil Morgan wins first of three Champions Tour majors by 6 strokes over Isao Aoki.
2009 – “Star Trek” film directed by J.J. Abrams, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto premieres in Austin, Texas.
2012 – US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities.
2020 – COVID-19 death toll passes 10,000 in six weeks, with more than 356,000 Americans infected. New York death toll reaches 4,758.
2021 – Jeff Bezos, worth $177 billion, tops Forbes Billionaires list of 2,755 people, including new entry Kim Kardashian.
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