1904 – Baltimore catches fire. There are 1,500 buildings destroyed over an 80-block area.
1908 – Philadelphia A’s manager/owner Connie Mack sells future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Rube Waddell to St. Louis for $5,000.
1915 – First wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received.
1934 – First contract for TVA power in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1940 – Walt Disney’s second feature length movie, “Pinocchio,” premieres in New York City.
1943 – Shoe rationing begins in the United States.
1945 – London, Washington and Moscow discusses final phase of World War II.
1949 – Joe DiMaggio becomes first $100,000 a year baseball player for the New York Yankees.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 – Beatles land at New York’s JFK airport for their first US tour.
1970 – LSU’s “Pistol” Pete Maravich scores 69 points in a losing cause.
1974 – Mel Brooks’ western spoof film “Blazing Saddles”, starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, premieres at the Pickwick Drive-in in Burbank, California. Patrons watched from horseback rather than cars.
1983 – “Jose Cuervo” single released by Shelly West. It was Billboard Song of the Year in 1983.
1988 – 38th NBA All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium: East beats West 138-133. Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls is named Most Valuable Player.
1994 – 21st American Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins.
1998 – XVIII Winter Olympic Games open in Nagano, Japan.
2010 – Super Bowl XLIV, Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Miami, Florida: New Orleans Saints beat Indianapolis Colts 31-17. Most Valuable Player is New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees.
2016 – Super Bowl, Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California: Denver Broncos beat Carolina Panthers 24-10. Denver linebacker Von Miller is selected Most Valuable Player.
2021 – Sarah Thomas becomes the first woman to referee a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay.
2023 – President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, calling out the ultra-wealthy, including Big Oil, addressing increasing threats from China and the killing of Tyre Nichols.
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