1879 – James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota.
1888 – Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.
1908 – Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette, violating the 1-day old “Sullivan Ordinance” banning women from smoking in public, and is fined $5. Appearing before the judge she stated “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law, and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.”
1924 – Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens.
1938 – “Our Town”, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitizer-winner of small-town life in Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, premieres (NJ)
1940 – 1st radio broadcast of “Road to Happiness” on CBS.
1943 – Temperature rises 49 degrees F in 2 minutes in Spearfish, South Dakota.
1945 – Heavy US air raid on Okinawa.
1947 – 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens in Hollywood, California.
1954 – 11th Golden Globes: The Robe, Spencer Tracy, & Audrey Hepburn win.
1959 – USAF concludes that less than 1% of UFOs are unknown objects.
1965 – US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite.
1968 – “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premieres on NBC.
1968 – NBA announces expansion franchise awarded to Milwaukee (Bucks) and Phoenix (Suns).
1970 – 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, Pan Am World Airways flies from New York City to London in 6 1/2 hours.
1973 – Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions.
1980 – PGA begins a senior golf tour.
1985 – Cold wave damages 90% of Florida’s cities crop.
2002 – Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2017 – Jared Kushner is sworn in a Senator Advisor to US President, Donald Trump.
2018 – Netflix becomes the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world worth $100 billion.
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