1677 – 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox) published in Boston.
1846 – 1st edition of Charles Dickens’ newspaper “The Daily News”
1853 – Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S. Civil War)
1899 – Opel manufactures its first automobile.
1908- “Sullivan Ordinance” is passed in NYC, making it illegal for a woman to smoke in public places. It was vetoed 2 weeks later by Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr.
1935 – The Wilderness Society is founded by conservationists.
1941 – 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, Texas.
1942 – Count Basie records “One O’clock Jump”
1950 – New York jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
1954 – 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (NYC)
1962 – Snow falls in San Francisco.
1974 – Gold hits record $161.31, silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London.
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1983 – President Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid.
1988 – US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children.
1994 – Dow Jones passes 3,900 (record 3,914.20)
1999 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the US Coast Guard intercepts a ship carrying 4,3000 kg of cocaine.
2004 – NASA’s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2017 – More than 2 million people protest worldwide in the “Women’s March” against Donald Trump, with 500,000 marching in Washington, D.C.
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