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1876 – Albert Spaulding invests $800 to start sporting goods company, manufacturing first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball and football.

1913 – 16th amendment to the US Constitution, federal income tax, ratified.

1917 – US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany.

1931 – Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of journalist H.L.Mencken, after he calls the state the “apex of moronia”

1941 – US Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum hours.

1951 – “Victor Borge Show” debuts on NBC-TV.

1953 – J Fred Muggs, a chimpanzee, becomes a regular on NBC’s Today Show.

1959 – “The Day the Music Died” plane crash kills musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper), and the pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa.

1961 – 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4″)

1962 – US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs.

1966 – 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched in the US

1975 – Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

1984 – 10th NASA Space Shuttle Mission (41B): Challenger 4 launches.

1992 – Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week.

1993 – Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles, California.

2002 – Super Bowl XXXVI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA: New England Patriots best St.Louis Rams, 20-17: Tom Brady, New England, QB.

2009 – Eric Holder becomes 82nd and 1st African American US Attorney General, succeeding Michael Mukasey.

2020 – Cruise ship Diamond Princess with 3700 passengers quarantined in Yokohama port, Japan after cases of COVID-19 found on board.

2021 – US and Russia extend their New START nuclear arms control treaty for five years, the last remaining nuclear arms deal between the two countries.

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