1896 – 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
1896 – First college basketball game with 5 players on each side is conducted by the University of Iowa, invites student athletes from University of Chicago for an experimental game: Chicago beats Iowa 15-12.
1911 – 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1919 – Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1929 – “NY Daily Mirror” columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio.
1933 – White Sands National Monument in New Mexico established.
1943 – US rations bread & metal – banning presliced bread reduce bakery demand for metal parts.
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1947 – Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
1948 – Ted Mack’s “Original Amateur Hour” begins, Dumont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1951 – NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts.
1960 – Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Virginia, killing all 50 people on board.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on US Billboard Chart with single “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at #45.
1970 – 20th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: West beats East, 16-13; MVP’s Gale Sayers, Chicago Bears, HB; George Andrie, Dallas Cowboys, DE.
1974 – “$6 Million Man” starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV.
1980 – Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce.
1987 – 3rd Soap Opera Digest Awards – Days of Our Lives wins.
1989 – IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988.
2004 – NFC Championship, Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia: Carolina Panthers beat Philadelphia Eagles, 14-3.
2017 – NASA and NOAA announce that 2016 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 which itself topped a record set in 2014.