1817 – Baltimore becomes the 1st American city lit by gas street lamps with the first turned on at Market and Lemon Streets (currently Baltimore and Holliday Streets)
1862 – Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island, NC.
1893 – Vanderbilt University claims it participated in the first organized intercollegiate basketball game a the Nashville YMCA Gymnasium; Vanderbilt beats YMCA, 9-3.
1908 – Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000.
1915 – 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received.
1934 – 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss.
1940 – Walt Disney’s second feature length movie, “Pinocchio” premieres (NYC)
1943 – Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
1944 – Bing Crosby records “Swinging on a Star” for Decca Records (Academy Award Best Original Song)
1949 – Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000 a year baseball player for the New York Yankees.
1959 – Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M.
1962 – US President JFK begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 – Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream.
1969 – “This is Tom Jones” debuts on ABC TV.
1973 – US Senate creates Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities.
1983 – 1st female Secretary of Transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
1994 – 21st American Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins.
2010 – Super Bowl XLIV, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Miami, Fl; New Orleans Saints beat Indianapolis Colts, 31-17; MVP: Drew Brees, New Orleans, QB.
2018 – “The Los Angeles Times” is bought by LA Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong from Tronc for $500 million.
2018 – White House aide Rob Porter resigns in wake of physical abuse allegations by ex-wives.
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