1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company established. It’s the precursor of the automobile manufacturer.
1883 – “Ladies Home Journal” begins publishing.
1909 – First subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City.
1914 – First airplane service from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
1923 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard.
1932 – First patent for a tree issued to James Markham for a peach tree.
1937 – DuPont Corporation patents nylon which was developed by employee Wallace Carothers.
1945 – United States forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3.
1946 – First commercially designed helicopter tested in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1953 – Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet. Later, hi is awarded the Air medal.
1961 – First all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit in Wallops Island, Virginia.
1963 – North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game against Clemson.
1968 – Elvis Presley receives a gold record for “How Great Thou Art.”
1968 – First 911 phone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.
1978 – First Computer Bulletin Board System — Ward & Randy’s CBBS in Chicago — is launched.
1986 – 28th Daytona 500: Geoff Bodine wins on fuel mileage after Dale Earnhardt forced to pit for gas with 3 laps to go, then blows the engine leaving the pits.
1992 – Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson’s No. 32 uniform.
2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2019 – Pope Francis defrocks ex-cardinal and archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick for sexually abusing minors and adults. First Cardinal to be removed for sexual abuse.
2021 – Winter storm continues with Dallas recording its lowest temperature in 70 years at minus-2 degrees.
2023 – World War II: US Navy History and Heritage Command confirms identity of the wreck USS Albacore, a submarine lost in 1944, discovered by the University of Tokyo sonar team in 2022 off of Hokkaido, Japan.
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