1909 – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms.
1914 – Dedication ceremony is held for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1925 – First federal arbitration law approved by Congress.
1934 – Export-Import Bank of the United States incorporates.
1941 – First injection of penicillin into a patient by British physician Charles Fletcher at Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England.
1945 – San Francisco selected for the site of the United Nations Conference.
1945 – Tornado strikes near York and Livingston, Alabama, with an estimated Fujita scale of F4 intensity and kills 11 people.
1950 – Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have a list of 205 communist government employees.
1955 – McGuire Sisters’ “Sincerely” single goes to No. 1 and stays No. 1 for 10 weeks.
1958 – Boston Celtics center Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds in a 119-101 NBA win against the Syracuse Nationals.
1964 – United States female figure skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
1973 – First United States prisoners of war in North Vietnam released with 116 of 456 flown to the Philippines.
1982 – Wayne Gretzky scores his 153rd point of the season, breaking the NHL record.
1984 – Cale Yarborough becomes first Daytona 500 qualifier above 200 mph.
1995 – Bonnie Blair skates a female world record of 38.69 seconds in the 500 meter race.
1998 – Intel unveils its first graphics chip, the i740.
2004 – San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2014 – Intel entrepreneur and co-founder of the X-PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis, claims that 50% of jobs in the United States are under threat of being mechanized within 10 years.
2019 – Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman found guilty of all 10 federal crimes against him in New York after 200 hours of testimony.
2019 – United States national debt tops $22 billion for the first time, according to the Treasury.
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