1909 – National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms.
1914 – “The Squaw Man”, 1st feature-length shot in Hollywood, directed by Cecil C. DeMille and Oscar Apfel, is released in the US.
1925 – 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress.
1941 – First injection of penicillin into a patient by British physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford, England.
1947 – French fashion designer Christian Dior presents his first influential collection, named the “New Look”
1949 – “Annie Get Your Gun” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances.
1950 – Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.
1955 – McGuire Sisters’ “Sincerely” single goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 10 weeks.
1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the “sheaves of wheat” design.
1964 – US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming, men’s championship won by Scott Allen.
1973 – 1st US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to the Philippines.
1981 – Arbitrator Raymond Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent.
1982 – Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, breaking NHL record.
1984 – Cale Yarborough becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 mph.
1988 – US Navy frigate USS Yorktown bumped by Russian frigate Bezzavetny in the Black Sea in dispute over right of innocent passage.
1997 – Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O.J. Simpson in lieu of hie $20.5 million judgement.
1999 – President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial.
2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2010 – XXI Winter Olympic Games open in Vancouver, Canada.
2019 – US national debt tops $22 trillion for the first time according to US Treasury.