1822 – Boston, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a city
1896 – Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield.
1904 – United States acquired control of the Panama Canal for $10 million.
1921 – 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in NYC from San Francisco.
1934 – Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers.
1940 – Walt Disney’s animated movie “Pinocchio” released.
1949 – US Marines raise the American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Pulitzer Prize winning photo by Joe Rosenthal later became iconic, inspiring the Marine Corps War Memorial sculpture.
1954 – 1st mass inoculation against polio with the Jonas Salk vaccine takes place at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1957 – “Mr. Wonderful” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances.
1964 – 6th Daytona 500: Race winner Richard Petty leads for record 184 of the 200 laps.
1971 – US army officer William Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina during his trial for the My Lai Massacre.
1976 – Owners announce spring training won’t open without a labor contract.
1983 – USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker to a then massive 3 year, $5 million deal.
1985 – Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game.
1991 – UNC is 1st NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games.
1995 – Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for 1st time (4,003.33)
2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005 begins, George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend – 1st visit of a sitting US President to Slovakia.
2010 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Big Girl” is published.
2014 – XXII Winter Olympic Games close in Sochi, Russia.
2021 – Tiger Woods crashes his car driving south of Los Angeles, injuring both legs.
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