1799 – 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania.
1842 – 1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC.
1879 – US Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court.
1903 – 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made my Morris & Rose Michtom.
1916 – NY Yankees buy Frank “Home Run” Baker from the Athletics for $37,500.
1926 – Contract air mail service begins in US.
1933 – President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survives assassination attempt but Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak is mortally wounded, he would die on March 29.
1941 – Duke Ellington first records “Take the A Train”.
1943 – Wartime propaganda poster “We Can Do It!” produced by J. Howard Miller and posted on the walls of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company’s plants in the midwest.
1950 – Walt Disney’s animated film “Cinderella” premieres in Boston.
1967 – 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted.
1976 – 18th Daytona 500: David Pearson makes contact with Richard Petty just yards from finish line into a wall and to infield; Petty stalls whilst Pearson restarts to win.
1987 – 1982 Masters Champion Craig Stadler is disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot.
1990 – Baseball owners lock out players.
1992 – Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys.
1998 – 40th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt’s only Daytona win in his 20th start; snaps a 59-race winless streak.
2004 – 46th Daytona 500: Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins exactly 6 years to the day after his father Dale Earnhardt Sr. won his first and only Daytona 500.
2005 – YouTube, Internet sit on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States.
2011 – US President Barack Obama awards writer and activist Maya Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
2019 – US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to divert funds to build a border wall, after signing bipartisan spending agreement to avoid another government shutdown.
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