1693 – William & Mary College is chartered in Williamsburg in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia.
1862 – Battle of Roanoke Island, NC. Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1916 – National League votes down Charlie Ebbets’ proposal to limit 25-cent seats.
1918 – “Stars and 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.
1942 – Congress advises President Franklin Roosevelt that Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn’t oppose the United States war effort.
1948 – V Winter Olympic Games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland.
1960 – Boston Celtics’ Bill Russell becomes the first NBA player with 50 rebounds in a game. He had 51.
1963 – American Football League’s Dallas Texans become the Kansas City Chiefs.
1965 – President Lyndon Johnson deploys first American combat troops to South Vietnam with 3,500 Marines sent to protect a key United States airbase near Da Nang.
1971 – NASDAQ Composite stock market index debuts with 50 companies and a starting value of 100.
1982 – Los Angeles Dodgers trade second baseman Davey Lopes to the Oakland Athletics, breaking up Major League Baseball’s longest-playing infield of Steve Garvey, Lopes, Bill Russell and Ron Cey) after 8½ seasons.
1986 – 5-foot-7-inch Spud Webb of the Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk competition.
1993 – General Motors sues NBC, alleging that a “Dateline NBC” program had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires.
1996 – Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
2008 – Nebraska bans electric chairs as sole execution method.
2009 – Al Gore’s book “An Inconvenient Truth” wins a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.
2017 – Senate confirms Jeff Sessions as attorney general after controversy and protest.
2022 – Horn of Africa had 13 million people facing a humanitarian crisis amid drought where the rainy season had failed three years in a row, according to the United Nations’ World Food Program.
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