1906 – W.K. Kellogg (after falling out with a brother over development of credit and wanting to add sugar to cereal) joins Charles C. Bolin in founding the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg’s.
1913 – 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box.
1922 – Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer.
1934 – US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months.
1942 – FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans.
1945 – US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines.
1950 – Groundbreaking ceremony held for Mississippi Vocational College (later Mississippi Valley State University)
1953 – Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board.
1963 – USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba.
1968 – Children’s educational TV program “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” debuts on NET (now PBS)
1973 – “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
1977 – Space shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner.
1983 – Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million.
1984 – 26th Daytona 500: Cale Yarborough wins for 2nd consecutive year and 4th time in career; last-lap pass to beat Darrell Waltrip.
1987 – President Ronald Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland.
1997 – FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls & 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls.
2006 – 48th Daytona 500: Jimmie Johnson driving from Hendrick Motorsports wins 203 lap race; goes on to win his first championship.
2014 – Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after government crackdown on protesters.
2019 – Four-time MLB All-Star at 3B Manny Machado agrees to the biggest free-agent contract in American sports history, a 10-year deal worth $300 million with San Diego Padres.
2019 – New York City bans hair discrimination, to limit racial stereotyping.
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