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1794 – 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia.
1876 – Alexander G. Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents, Supreme Court eventually rules Bell is rightful inventor
1899 – US Congress begins using voting machines.
1919 – United Parcel Service forms.
1924 – Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)
1932 – The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts on CBS radio, airing there until 1937, moving to NBC until 1949, and returning to CBS in 1949, before moving to television.
1943 – German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass, Tunisia begins, starting with the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid.
1951 – Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight boxing title.
1960 – 2nd Daytona 500: Junior Johnson survives a 37 car crash on Turn 4 to win, driving a John
Masoni owned Chevrolet.
1963 – US launches communications satellite Syncom 1.
1967 – “Respect” single recorded by Aretha Franklin (Billboard Song of the Year 1967)
1971 – Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in the White House.
1978 – 1st “micro on a chip” patented by Texas Instruments.
1988 – 30th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison beats his son, Davey, to the finish line; remembered for Richard Petty’s rollover crash in the tri-oval on lap 106, rolls over 8 times and hit by Brett Bodine; walks away unhurt.
1990 – Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some.
1998 – Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting.  A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois University resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured.
2010 – 52nd Daytona 500: Jamie Murray, driving for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing wins; Mark Martin, oldest polesitter in Daytona 500 history at 51 years, 27 days.
2018 – Ex-student Nikolas Cruz shoots and kills 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida, before being captured.
2019 – Amazon cancels plans to build a corporate campus in Long Island, Queens, New York after
widespread opposition.
2019 – JP Morgan is the first bank to create its own crypto-currency JPM Coin.

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