1855 – US citizenship laws amended, all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship.
1870 – City of Anaheim in California incorporated for the 1st time, but unincorporated after two years as the tax burden was too high.
1897 – NY Times begins using slogan “All the News That’s Fit to Print”
1915 – US President Woodrow Wilson protests to Britain on the use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans.
1923 – Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company.
1930 – Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress.
1939 – “Stagecoach” western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne, premieres in Miami.
1940 – “In the Mood” by Glenn Miller hist #1.
1945 – “Rum and Coca-Cola” by the Andrew Sisters hits #1.
1954 – President Dwight Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam.
1961 – Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power.
1968 – American 2-time world champion Peggy Fleming comfortably wins Olympic women’s figure skating gold medal at the Grenoble Winter Games.
1981 – 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton.
1988 – 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army’s ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1991 – 41st NBA All-Star Game, Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC: East beats West, 116-114; MVP Charles Barkley, Philadelphia 76ers.
1997 – 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards – General Hospital wins.
2005 – His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales announces engagement to Camilla Parker Bowles.
2014 – “This is How We Roll” single released by Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan (Billboard Song of the Year 2004)
2019 – Sexual abuse investigation into US Southern Baptist churches reveals 400 church members implicated with over 700 victims, according to The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News.
2021 – Astronomers confirm the planetoid named Farfarout as the most distant orbiting the Sun, almost four times distant than Pluto.
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