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.”
1901 – H. Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner.
1909 – Boston Red Sox trade pitcher Cy Young, at age 41, to the Cleveland Naps.
1922 – Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his federal judgeship to give full attention to job as Major League Baseball Commissioner.
1924 – US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.
1930 – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s musical “Simple Simon” premieres in New York City.
1943 – A syndicate headed by New York lumberman William D. Cox buys Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies for $850,000. The 33 year-old Cox is the youngest owner in baseball.
1952 – 4th Emmy Awards: First time awards presented based on nationwide basis. “The Red Skelton Show”, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca win.
1960 – VIII Winter Olympic Games open in Squaw Valley, California.
1970 – President Richard Nixon launches the “Nixon doctrine.”
1973 – 15th Daytona 500: Richard Petty wins his 4th Great American Race by more than 2 laps over Bobby Isaac.
1979 – Mini-series “Roots: Next Generations” premieres on ABC television.
1986 – Anti-smoking ad aired for first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner, who died of smoking-induced lung cancer on October 10, 1985.
1989 – “A Better Man” single released by Clint Black. It was Billboard Song of the Year in 1989.
1994 – Dan Jansen skates world record 1,000 meters in 1:12.43.
2001 – 43rd Daytona 500: Michael Waltrip wins tragic race. A last lap crash claims life of Dale Earnhardt, prompting sport to implement new safety procedures.
2007 – 56th NBA All-Star Game, Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nevada: West beats East 153-132. Most Valuable Player is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers.
2016 – Pope Francis questions Presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border.
2019 – 16 states, including California and New York, band together to sue President Donald Trump over his use of emergency powers to build a border wall.
2020 – Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy amid hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits, suspending those claims.
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