1885 – Mark Twain publishes the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
1908 – First United States postage stamps in rolls issued.
1919 – Cy Denneny of the Ottawa Senators scored his NHL-record 52nd goal.
1924 – US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to the Teapot Dome scandal.
1927 – United States and Canada open diplomatic relations.
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.
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. He made his Major League Baseball debut with the Reds later that year.
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.
1968 – Britain commences a trial of year-round daylight saving time.
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 – Snow falls for about 30 minute in Ain Sefra, Algeria in the Sahara Desert.
1986 – San Antonio guard Alvin Robertson scores the National Basketball Association’s second quadruple double with 20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals in 120-114 win over Phoenix Suns.
1998 – 39th Daytona 500: Dale Jarrett win his second Great American race ahead of Dale Earnhardt and Ken Schrader.
2013 – $50 million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
2014 – Ukrainian Revolution begins as protesters, riot police and unknown shooters take part in violent events in the capital, Kiev, culminating after five days of the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych.
2019 – The 25-year-old murder of Jeanne Ann Childs solved when police in Minnesota run DNA through a genealogy site and find Jerry Arnold Westrom, who was charged with second-degree murder.
2021 – Nearly seven million people are required to boil their water in Texas as an unusually harsh winter storm in the state continues.
Author: Sonny Jones
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