1862 – Battle of Roanoke Island, NC. Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1918 – “Stars & Stripes”, a weekly United States armed forces newspaper, is first published.
1926 – Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios.
1930 – “Happy Days Are Here Again” by Benny Meroff hits #1.
1933 – First flight of all-metal Boeing 247.
1942 – Congress advises President Franklin Roosevelt that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn’t oppose the US war effort.
1945 – Paul Brown agrees to coach the All-America Football Conference expansion team in Cleveland, which would later be named the Cleveland Browns after their coach.
1952 – “RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day” debuts on NBC TV.
1960 – Boston Celtics Bill Russell becomes first NBA player with 50 rebounds in a game. He had 51.
1963 – American Football League’s Dallas Texans become KC Chiefs.
1965 – President Lyndon Johnson deploys first US combat troops to South Vietnam with 3,500 marines sent to protect a key US airbase near Da Nang.
1972 – Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1981 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton.
1986 – 5foot-7-inch Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition.
1993 – GM sues NBC, alleging that “Dateline NBC” program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires.
2002 – XIX Winter Olympic Games open in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2018 – Twitter reports its first quarterly profit as a public company.
2010 – 747-8 Freighter takes off for its maiden flight from Paine Field, Washington.
2019 – Washington Governor Jay Inslee declares a state of emergency after heavy snowfall.
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