1905 – Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world’s first air conditioner.
1918 – After repeated clashes over pay with the Brooklyn Robins owner Charlie Ebbets, star right fielder and future Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengal is traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
1938 – Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded.
1943 – University of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team begins 129 home game winning streak that ends in 1955. The streak incorporates NCAA titles in 1948, 1949 and 1951.
1955 – First “Bob Cummings Show” premieres on NBC. It later aired on CBS.
1957 – In the first of four meetings between the fighters, Gene Fullmer wins the world middleweight boxing title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Sugar Ray Robinson at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
1960 – Senator John F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for the Presidency.
1965 – New York Jets sign future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath to a $427,000 contract over three years. It was the largest pro football contract at the time.
1970 – US population is 293.2 million. African Americans population: 22.6 million (11.1%).
1974 – 55 MPH speed limit imposed by President Richard Nixon.
1982 – Australian Open Women’s Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her first of three Australian singles, beating Chris Evert-Lloyd 6-7, 6-4, 7-5 in the finals.
1983 – Duke Ellington’s musical “Sophisticated Ladies” closes at Lunt-Fontanne in New York City after 787 performances.
1986 – 191.66 million shares traded on New York Stock Exchange.
1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the midwestern United States, causing 14 inches of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches in Chicago, where temperatures plunged to -13 degrees. Sixty-eight deaths were reported.
2014 – Raul Castro gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and warns of “neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking” entering the country.
2015 – The Economist lists Daniel Kahneman as the seventh most influential economist in the world.
2019 Apple CEO Tim Cook blames below expectation on Chinese-produced iPhone sales for the downturn in the company’s outlook, rocking international stock markets.
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