1892 – The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1900 – American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minnesota.
1920 – Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week.
1924 – Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor.
1929 – Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in United States.
1936 – First players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.
1943 – U.S. cruiser “Chicago” is heavily damaged by Japanese bombers on the first day of the Battle of Rennell Island.
1948 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players.
1959 – Walt Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty” released.
1964 – IX Winter Olympic Games open in Innsbruck, Austria.
1966 – Snow Storm in northeast kills 165.
1974 – 1974 NFL Draft: Ed Jones from Tennessee State first pick by Dallas Cowboys.
1980 – Cleveland Cavaliers beat Los Angeles Lakers 154-153 in quadruple overtime.
1986 – 193.8 million shares traded on New York Stock Exchange.
1996 – 23rd American Music Awards: Garth Brooks wins.
2006 – US Postal Service releases 39-cent stamp featuring Hattie McDaniel in the dress she wore in 1940 when she became the first African-American actress to accept an Academy Award.
2012 – American snowboarder Shaun White achieves the first ever SuperPipe perfect score (100) in Winter X Games history.
2018 – David Beckham launches a Major League Soccer team in Florida, Inter Miami CF.
2019 – Tehran, Iran, bans dog walking in public, and driving with dogs.
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