1690 – 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts)
1743 – Philadelphia establishes a “pesthouse” to quarantine immigrants.
1783 – Spain recognizes US independence.
1834 – Wake Forest University established.
1860 – Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture.
1869 – Booth Theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1876 – Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball & football.
1882 – Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo.
1913 – 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified.
1931 – Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H.L. Mencken after he calls state “apex of moronia”
1941 – US Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum hours.
1953 – J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC’s Today Show.
1959 – “The Day the Music Died” plan crash kills musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, J.P. Richardson and pilot near Clear Lake, Iowa.
1966 – 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US.
1971 – OPEC mandates “total embargo” against any company that rejects 55 percent tax rate.
1986 – The Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta.
1990 – Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation.
1993 – Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments.
1998 – Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
2013 – Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers, 34-31 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome MVP: Joe Flacco, Baltimore, QB.
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