1908 – Star #46 was added to the US flag for Oklahoma with the addition to the Union of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907.
1924 – George Kelly’s play “Show-Off” premieres in New York City.
1932 – III Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York.
1941 – United Service Organization (USO) founded.
1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss the final phase of World War II.
1957 – First electric portable typewriter placed on sale in Syracuse, New York.
1961 – Sputnik 7 launches Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure.
1967 – United States launches Lunar Orbiter 3.
1969 – John Madden is named head coach of American Football League’s Oakland Raiders.
1970 – “Patton”, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott, premieres in New York. It wins Academy Awards’ Best Picture in 1971.
1971 – National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington, North Carolina.
1974 – American publishing heir Randolph Hearst’s 19-year-old daughter, Patty Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
1979 – 29th NBA All-Star Game, Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan: West beats East 134-129. Most Valuable Player is David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets.
1987 – President Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress.
1991 – Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time on Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration and To Tell the Truth.
1997 – O.J. Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson in a civil court action.
2001 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii: AFC beats NFC 38-17. Oakland Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon is named Most Valuable Player.
2004 – Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room.
2014 – Satya Nadella succeeds Steve Ballmer as chief executive officer of Microsoft.
2023 – Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by US fighter jets off the eastern seaboard after drifting across America for several days and igniting a political storm.
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