1914 – Industrialist Henry Ford announces his $5 minimum per-day wage, doubling most workers’ pay from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day.
1925 – Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in the USA.
1927 – MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox.
1930 – Bonnie Priest meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay’s house.
1933 – Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, starting on the Marin County side.
1940 – FCC hears the 1st transmission of FM radio with clear, static-free signal.
1949 – US President Harry Truman labels his administration the “Fair Deal”
1957 – Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson announces his retirement rather than be traded to the NY Giants.
1959 – “Bozo the Clown” live children’s show premieres on TV.
1968 – Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law.
1969 – Creedence Clearwater Revival release their second album “Bayou Country”, featuring singles “Good Golly, Miss Molly” and “Proud Mary.”
1981 – Late night television news program, “Nightline” with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes.
1989 – Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990.
1993 – Reggie Jackson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1997 – “Show Boat” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC.
2007 – Bill Cowher resigns as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2018 – “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff is published by Henry Holt and Company.
2021 – In Georgia Senate run-off election Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Kelly Loeffler (R) and Jon Ossoff (D) defeats David Perdue (R) to give Democrats control of the US Senate.
2022 – Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pardons Homer Plessy for buying whites-only ticket in 1892 (resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson 1896)
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