1784 – John Wesley charters Methodist Church.
1854 – Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1903 – Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000.
1917 – AP reports Mexico & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WW I.
1925 – “Tea for Two” by Marion Harris hits #1.
1933 – 1st female in US Cabinet: Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor.
1940 – 1st televised basketball game (U of Pittsburgh beats Fordham U, 50-37.
1951 – Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates.
1956 – American engineer Wright Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory.
1960 – Home team United States wins the first Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley with 9-4 win over Czechoslovakia.
1966 – Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
1971 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, PGA National East: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire for his 2nd career grand slam; wins by 2 from Billy Casper.
1982 – AT&T loses a record $7 billion for the fiscal year ending on this day.
1990 – US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit.
1994 – Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a handgun in the USA, comes into effect.
1997 – Purchasers of cigarettes in the US must prove they are over 18.
2010 – XXI Winter Olympic Games close in Vancouver, Canada.
2019 – Summit between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump collapses without agreement.
2022 – Russia shells the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, while a 40 mile Russian military convey approaches capital city of Kyiv.
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