1865 – Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher, NC.
1896 – 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
1906 – 1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)
1915 – US House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote.
1920 – Annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings, agreed to.
1932 – Philip Barry’s “Animal Kingdom” premieres in NYC.
1939 – Timely Comics (later Marvel) founded by American publisher Martin Goodman in New York.
1943 – Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)
1956 – FBI arrests 6 members of the Great Brink’s robbery gang, 6 days before statute of limitations runs out.
1957 – Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded with Martin Luther King, Jr. as leader of Ebenezer Church in Atlanta.
1962 – Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange.
1966 – LBJ says US should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends.
1971 – US Federal grand jury indicts Rev. Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
1975 – Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates.
1979 – Record blizzard strikes the US midwest killing over 100.
1983 – Brooks Robinson and Juan Marichal elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1991 – US Congress gives George H.W. Bush authority to wage war against Iraq.
1995 – Murder trial against O.J. Simpson, begins in LA.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public in Anaheim.
2013 – “Mile High Miracle”, in AFC Divisional Playoff Game Denver Broncos ahead of Baltimore Ravens 35-28 with 1:09 remaining, quarterback Joe Flacco heaves 70 yard touchdown pass to receiver Jacoby Jones to tie the game, Ravens in in overtime.
2017 – US President Barack Obama in surprise presentation awards Vice President Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
