1907 – Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
1907 – US Congress raises their own salaries to $7,500.
1916 – Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract.
1929 – US President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park.
1935 – RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.
1938 – 1st passenger ship equipped with radar.
1945 – Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force.
1953 – 10th Golden Globes: “The Greatest Show on Earth”, Gary Cooper & Shirley Booth win.
1961 – 3rd Daytona 500: Marvin Panch wins in a 1961 Pontiac owned by Smokey Yunick when race leader Fireball Roberts’ car suffered a blown engine with 13 laps remaining.
1962 – US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation.
1972 – Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, kills 125.
1973 – 8th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Donna Fargo win.
1979 – Last total eclipse of the Sun in the 20th century for continental US.
1981 – Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album goes #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks.
1987 – NBA’s Michael Jordan’s 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record.
1989 – NFL’s Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career.
1998 – Oprah Winfrey found not guilty in beef defamation trial brought by Texas cattlemen.
2012 – 61st NBA All-Star Game, Amway Centre, Orlando, Florida: West beats East, 152-149; MVP: Kevin Durant, OKC Thunder, F.
2014 – Seth Rogen testifies about Alzheimer’s disease before the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Service.
2021 – Toymaker Hasbro announces that the Mr. Potato Head brand name will be changed to be gender-neutral.
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