1871 – US income tax repealed.
1905 – World’s largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Afrca.
1907 – First US federal corrupt election practices law passed.
1913 – Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics.
1918 – Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrators, calls for “wheatless and meatless” days for war effort.
1930 – Cleveland’s 52-story Terminal Tower opens.
1939 – Filming begins on adaptation of “Gone With The Wind.”
1942 – First US force in Europe during WWII go ashore in Northern Ireland.
1951 – Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1954 – Groundbreaking begins on Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
1961 – “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” by Elvis Presley hits #1.
1967 – Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow causing 800 buses and 50,000 automobiles to be abandoned.
1970 – “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” the fifth and final studio album by Neil Simon and Art Garfunkel, is released. It wins Grammy Award Album of the Year and Best Engineered Non-Classical Album in 1971.
1979 – “The Dukes of Hazzard” premieres on CBS.
1986 – Super Bowl XX, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana: Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots 46-10; Most Valuable Player is Chicago defensive end Richard Dent.
1989 – AT&T reports $1.67 billion loss in 1988. It’s the company’s first loss in 103 years.
1995 – With a record 5,254,427 ballots cast by fans in NBA All-Star Voting, Detroit’s Grant Hill becomes the first rookie to lead all NBA players in All-Star votes received with 1,289,585 votes.
2003 – Late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” debuts on ABC-TV.
2006 – Western Union discontinues its telegram service.
2010 – The World Health Organization rejects claims that it overstated the severity of the swine flu pandemic under pressure from vaccine companies.
2020 – Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter crash in foggy conditions in the hills above Calabasas, California.
2021 – Antony Blinken confirmed by US Senate as Secretary of State.
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