1870 – US Army establishes National Weather Service.
1900 – Dwight Davis establishes a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup.
1909 – First federal legislation on narcotics prohibits importation, possession, and use of “smoking opium.”
1922 – World War Foreign Debt Commission is established by Congress to settle the problem of Allied war and postwar loans.
1934 – Minus-14.3 degrees, coldest day in New York City.
1940 – Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
1942 – Daylight Saving War Time goes into effect in the United States.
1943 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order setting a minimum 48-hour work week in a number of critical war industries.
1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy charges the State Department infested with 205 communists.
1963 – First test flight of Boeing 727 jet.
1964 – First appearance of the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” live from New York. The broadcast draws 73.7 million television viewers.
1966 – Dow Jones Index hits record 995 points.
1971 – Satchel Paige is first Negro League player elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1980 – Rick Barry of the Houston Rockets is the first in NBA history to score eight 3-pointers in a game.
1990 – “Brady’s” returned to TV for 6 episodes on CBS-TV.
1997 – Fox cartoon series “The Simpsons” airs 167th episode. It’s the longest-running animated series in cartoon history.
2002 – NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, Hawaii: AFC beats NFC 38-30. Oakland Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon is named Most Valuable Player.
2006 – Al Michaels joins NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” broadcast with John Madden.
2016 – Primary elections: New Hampshire Primary: In Republican race, Donald Trump wins (35%)and John Kasich is second (16%). In Democratic race, Bernie Sanders (60%) defeats Hillary Clinton (38%).
2021 – WHO team investigating origin of COVID-19 say it is “extremely unlikely” that it leaked from a local research lab.
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