1896 – First certified public accountants receive certificates in New York.
1903 – “The Great Train Robbery,” the first Western film, released starring Justus D. Barnes and G.M. Anderson.
1913 – First drive-up gasoline station opens in Pittsburgh.
1913 – Ford Motor Company institutes the world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford.
1921 – First helium-filled dirigible in the United States makes its first flight.
1929 – Game of Bingo invented by toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe.
1938 – School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1942 – Gasoline rationed in United States during World War II.
1949 – Major League Baseball announces attendance for the season is 20.2 million, down from 20.9 in 1948. The New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians each finish with over 2.2 million spectators while the St. Louis Browns fall to 270,000.
1956 – Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
1964 – After just three seasons in Major League Baseball the Houston Colt .45s change their name to the Houston Astros. Owners say the move signals to step into the future for the franchise and the city.
1969 – American government holds its first draft lottery since World War II.
1978 – President Jimmy Carter more than doubles the size of the national park system.
1982 – Dentist Barney B. Clark gets the first artificial heart.
1988 – NBC bids a record $401 million to capture television broadcasting rights for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games.
1996 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the only player in National Hockey League history to reach the 3,000 point plateau, including playoffs, when he records an assist in the New York Rangers’ 6-2 win over the Montreal Canadians at Madison Square Garden.
2008 – The economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economics Research announces.
2015 – After finishing the season with the largest payroll in Major League Baseball history at $298.3 million, the Los Angeles Dodgers are assigned the largest luxury tax bill ever at $43.7 million.
2017 – President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI.
2020 – Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2020 was Bad Bunny and its most streamed song “Blinding Lights” by The Weekend.
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