1731 – 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham’s great room in Boston)
1835 – Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River.
1861 – US banks stops payments in gold.
1903 – Electric arc lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago leaving 602 dead in one of the deadliest blazes in American history.
1907 – Abraham Mills’ commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball.
1918 – John E. Hoover, First Director of the FBI, decides to be called J. Edgar Hoover.
1929 – Cole Porter’s musical “Wake Up & Dream” premieres in NYC.
1936 – United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant.
1948 – “Kiss Me, Kate” opens at New Century Theater, NYC for 1077 performances.
1950 – “Sixty Minute Man” record single released by The Dominoes (Billboard Song of the Year 1951)
1953 – The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.
1963 – “Let’s Make A Deal,” debuts on NBC-TV.
1968 – Frank Sinatra first records “My Way” with lyrics written by Paul Anka and based on French song “Comme d’habitude”
1972 – US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks.
1978 – Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach.
1980 – “Wonderful World of Disney” last performance on NBC-TV.
1990 – 11th United Negro College Fund raises $10,000,000.
1995 – CARQUEST Bowl 6: North Carolina beats Arkansas, 20-10.
2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
2012 – 9 people are killed and 26 are injured in a tour bus crash off interstate 84, Oregon, US.
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