1914 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Watch your Step” premieres in New York City.
1923 – German-United States friendship treaty signed.
1931 – Coaxial cable patented.
1936 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) files suit to equalize salaries of black and white teachers.
1941 – United States and Britain declare war on Japan. US enters WW II.
1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers “Day of Infamy” speech to Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
1946 – Army rocket plane XS-1 makes first powered flight.
1955 – 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State halfback.
1960 – Musical “Peter Pan”, starring Mary Martin, broadcast for a third time on NBC as a special event. It was videotaped in color for future rebroadcasts.
1963 – Pan Am Flight 214 crashes outside Elkton, Maryland with 81 killed.
1966 – The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space.
1975 – “Raisin” closes at 46th Street Theater in New York City after 847 performances.
1983 – 9th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 6 lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
1988 – New York Knicks set NBA record of 11 3-pointers and beat Milwaukee Bucks 113-109.
1999 – 10th Billboard Music Awards: Brittney Spears, Backstreet Boys, and Creed win.
2010 – With the second launch of SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2018 – 84th Heisman Trophy Award: Kyler Murray, Oklahoma quarterback.
2022 – Basketball star Brittany Griner is released by Russian authorities in a prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Griner had been detained on drug smuggling charges since February 2022.
2022 – Documentary series “Harry & Meghan” about Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, begins streaming on Netflix.
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