1699 – Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting “witches”.
1794 – Dr. Jesse Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US on his wife.
1799 – Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets.
1868 – North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh.
1905 – Hubbell, Shubert & Smith’s musical “Fontana” premieres in NYC.
1919 – John McGraw, Charles A. Stoneham, & Judge McQuade buy NY Giants.
1932 – Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel by airplane.
1952 – “Today Show” premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV.
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motor Corporation.
1956 – Little Richard releases “Tutti Furtti”
1960 – US Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant.
1963 – George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states “segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!”
1967 – New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
1972 – “Sanford & Son” starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV.
1973 – “Aloha from Hawaii”, an Elvis Presley concert, becomes the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer.
1979 – US President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King’s birthday be a holiday.
1995 – Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex’s $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package to Mexico.
2014 – American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia.
2016 – Sixth republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox, held in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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