02/19/2025
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This Day In History archive

1906 – First time Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 100 at 100.26.

1915 – House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote.

1920 – Major League Baseball teams agreed to the annual drafting of baseball players from minor leagues to be done in inverse order of the final standings.

1932 – Arkansas Democrat Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the Senate.

1939 – Timely Comics, later Marvel, is founded by publisher Martin Goodman in New York.

1943 – Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages as a mix of meat and soy meal.

1945 – United States Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in the Battle of the South China Sea.

1949 – “Arthur Godfrey and his Friends” premieres on CBS-TV.

1956 – FBI arrests six members of the Great Brink’s robbery gang six days before the statute of limitations runs out. The robbery was the largest in United States history at the time, with the gang stealing $2.7 million.

1962 – Operation Chopper begins and is America’s first combat mission in the Vietnam War.

1966 – Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach records his 1,000th NBA career victory, including regular season and playoffs, with a 114-102 win over the Los Angeles Lakers in Boston.

1971 – “All in the Family” premieres on CBS featuring the first toilet flush on television.

1979 – Record blizzard strikes the midwest, killing over 100 people.

1983 – NCAA creates football’s Kickoff Classic to be held August 29 between Nebraska and Penn State.

1991 – The largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Conference women’s basketball game when 11,520 spectators watched at Reynolds Coliseum as second-ranked Virginia beat No. 3 N.C. State 123-120 in triple overtime.

1995 – The murder trial against O.J. Simpson begins in Los Angeles.

2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public in Anaheim.

2013 – “Mile High Miracle”: In an AFC Divisional playoff Game, the Denver Broncos were ahead of the Baltimore Ravens 35-28 with 1:09 remaining when quarterback Joe Flacco heaved a 70 yard touchdown pass to receiver Jacoby Jones to tie the game. The Ravens won in overtime.

2017 – Justin Thomas, at 23 years old, becomes the youngest player in PGA Tour history to shoot a sub-60 round with a 59 at Waialae Country Club in Hawaii. Thomas went on to win the tournament.

2023 – Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.

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