1620 – Mayflower Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1784 – John Jay becomes 1st US Secretary of State (foreign affairs)
1829 – 1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore.
1891 – 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1913 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World.
1919 – J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia.
1929 – 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas, Tx)
1932 – Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio)
1933 – Fox Films signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract.
1937 – The first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1949 – “Sampson and Delilah”, directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature, premieres in New York.
1959 – 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7″)
1962 – US & Cuba accord, releases Bay of Pigs captive.
1969 – Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game.
1975 – “Hello Dolly” closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 51 performances.
1983 – NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men’s basketball free throw rule.
1988 – Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by terrorist bomb killing all 258 on board over Scotland.
1994 – Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street NYC.
1997 – Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd player to run for 2,000 yards in a season.
2012 – “Gangnam Style” becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube.
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