1901 – At the Major League Baseball meeting, the Milwaukee Brewers franchise is officially dropped from the American League and replaced by the St. Louis Browns.
1911 – Willis Carrier presents his influential “Rational Psychrometric Formulae” on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, making air conditioning possible.
1923 – First Congressional open session broadcast via radio in Washington, D.C.
1930 – Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart’s musical “Evergreen” premieres in London.
1931 – Alka-Seltzer goes on sale.
1933 – As part of a famous Major League Baseball fire sale of players, Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack sells catcher Mickey Cochrane to Detroit for $100,000 and Cochrane is immediately named Tigers manager.
1943 – 9th Heisman Trophy Award: Angelo Bertelli, Notre Dame quarterback.
1944 – United States 5th Armored Division occupies Brandenburg, Hurtgenwald, Germany during World War II.
1953 – President Dwight Eisenhower criticizes Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy for saying communists are in the Republican Party.
1964 – Police arrests 800 sit-in students at the University of California at Berkeley.
1968 – Elvis Presley’s “Comeback Special” airs on NBC in his first live performance in seven years, re-launching his singing career.
1973 – Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter in the first fly-by of an outer planet.
1982 – A state-record 14 inches of rain falls at Big Fork, Arkansas.
1985 – 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B) Atlantis 2 lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes the first rocket aircraft delivery of mail in Mojave, California.
2015 – Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces all combat roles in the United States armed forced will be opened to women.
2019 – Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announce they are stepping down from roles at parent company Alphabet and that Sundar Pichai will become head of both company’s.
2022 – Former President Donald Trump calls in a Truth Social post for “the termination” of all rules, including the United States Constitution.
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