1790 – First successful US cotton mill begins spinning yarn in Pawtucket, Rhode Island built by Samuel Slater based on Richard Arkwright’s design.
1919 – US House of Representatives restricts immigration.
1920 – Bob Hope becomes an American citizen at age 17. He had emigrated from England when he was 4.
1926 – St. Louis Cardinals trade future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby to New York Giants for Frankie Frisch & Jimmy Ring. Cardinals had concerns over Hornsby’s gambling.
1940 – Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Philadelphia Athletics for $42,000.
1941 – World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the “Flying Tigers,” in Kunming, China.
1946 – Rationing of auto tires ends in the United States.
1956 – Montgomery, Alabama removes race-based seat assignments on its buses.
1957 – Elvis Presley receives his draft notice to join the US Army for national service.
1966 – NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season.
1969 – Peter, Paul & Mary’s cover of John Denver’s song “Leaving on a Jet Plane” reaches #1.
1978 – H.R. Haldeman, who was President Richard Nixon’s White House Chief of Staff, was released from jail after serving 18 months.
1985 – Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC.
1988 – NBC signs lease to stay in New York City for 33 more years.
1995 – American Flight 965 crashes into a mountain in Buga, Columbia. There were 159 people who died and 5 survived.
2001 – 90th Davis Cup: France beats Australia in Melbourne.
2012 – Intercontinental Exchange purchased the New York Stock Exchange, the largest in the world, for $8 billion.
2019 – Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana granted US federal recognition providing the right to certain legal and government benefits.
1922 – Multinational company 3M says it will stop making and using “forever chemicals”, linked to health problems such as cancer.
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