1879 – Sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty.
1885 – Mark Twain publishes the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in the US.
1901 – H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner.
1922 – The Capper-Volstead Act allow farmers to buy and sell cooperatively without the risk of prosecution under antitrust laws.
1927 – US & Canada open diplomatic relations.
1930 – US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1944 – 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall signs a contract to play baseball with the Cincinnati Reds just one day after playing in a high school basketball game, debuts later that year.
1951 – 3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes.
1960 – VIII Winter Olympic Games open in Squaw Valley, California.
1960 – Walter O’Malley, LA Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000.
1970 – US President Richard Nixon launches the “Nixon Doctrine”
1973 – 15th Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins his 4th Great American Race by more than 2 laps from Bobby Isaac.
1979 – Mimi-series “Roots: Next Generations” premieres on ABC TV.
1986 – Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner: he died of smoking-induced lung cancer on 10th October 1985.
1989 – “A Better Man” single released by Clint Black (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
2001 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
2007 – 56th NBA All-Star Game, Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, NV: West beats East, 153-132; MVP: Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, F.
2007 – 49th Daytona 500: Kevin Harvick wins by 0.02s over Mark Martin in the closest finish since the first race at Daytona in 1959.
2016 – Pope Francis questions US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border.
2020 – Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy amid hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits, suspending those claims.
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