1802 – Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library.
1871 – US income tax repealed.
1907 – 1st US federal corrupt election practices law passed.
1918 – Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls for “wheatless” & “meatless” days for war effort.
1920 – Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor company which he later sold to his former employer.
1930 – Cleveland’s Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
1939 – Filming begins on film “Gone With the Wind”
1942 – 1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Island.
1960 – Pete Rozelle elected NFL Commissioner on 23rd ballot.
1961 – “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” by Elvis Presley hits #1.
1967 – Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000 automobiles to be abandoned.
1970 – “Bridge over Troubled Water” 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award of the Year, Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)
1979 – “The Dukes of Hazzard” premieres on US TV network, CBS.
1988 – “Phantom of the Opera” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ performances.
1989 – AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years: $1.67B in 1988.
1998 – President Bill Clinton says “I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”
2004 – Mydoom, the most destructive computer worm (so far), first sighted on computers in North America. Goes on to cause $38 billions in damages.
2010 – The World Health Organization rejects claims that it overstated the severity of the swine flu pandemic under pressure from vaccine companies.
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