1899 – Congress begins using voting machines.
1912 – First US submarines with diesel engines commissioned — Groton and Connecticut.
1919 – United Parcel Service forms.
1929 – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone’s orders.
1932 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts on CBS radio, airing there until 1937, moving to NBC until 1949, then returning to CBS in 1949, before moving to television.
1941 – One millionth vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel.
1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotte to win the middleweight boxing title.
1954 – Senator John F. Kennedy appears on “Meet the Press.”
1960 – Second Daytona 500: Junior Johnson survives a 37-car crash on Turn 4 to win driving a John Masoni-owned Chevrolet.
1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV.
1966 – Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points.
1971 – Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in the White House.
1980 – United States launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares.
1985 – CNN reporter Jeremy Levin, who had been taken hostage, is released in Beirut.
1988 – Senior PGA Championship, PGA National GC: South African Gary Player wins his second of three event titles by 3 strokes over Chi-Chi Rodriguez.
1994 – Second ESPY Awards: Barry Bonds, Julie Krone win.
2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire on a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university campus resulting in 24 casualties, 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 19 injured.
2013 – Japan remains in recession as the economy shrinks by a further 0.1%.
2019 – Amazon cancels plans to build a corporate campus in Long Island, Queens, New York after widespread opposition.
2023 – Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announces she is running for president, the first to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican party nomination.
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