1904 – A Pennsylvania state-record minus-42 degrees in Smethport.
1914 – Industrialist Henry Ford announces his $5 minimum per day wage, doubling most workers’ pay from $2.40 for a 9 hour day to $5 an 8 hour day.
1927 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis begins a three-day public hearing on charges that four games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown by Detroit to help Chicago.
1930 – Bonnie Parker meets Clyde Barrow for the first time at Clarence Clay’s house.
1940 – Federal Communications Commission hears the first transmission of FM radio with clear, static free signal.
1949 – President Harry Truman labels his administration the “Fair Deal.”
1957 – Brooklyn Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson announces his retirement rather than be traded to the New York Giants.
1957 – President Dwight Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle East.
1959 – Buddy Holly releases his last record “It Doesn’t Matter”. He is killed in a plane crash 29 days later.
1968 – Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law.
1971 – Harlem Globetrotters lose 100-99 to New Jersey Reds, ending 2,495-game winning streak.
1981 – Late night television news program “Nightline” with Ted Koppel extended from 20 minutes to 30 minutes.
1989 – Baseball signs $400 million with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990.
1993 – Former Major League Baseball player Reggie Jackson elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1997 – “Show Boat” closes at Gershwin Theater in New York City.
2007 – Bill Cowher resigns as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
2018 – “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff is published by Henry Holt Company.
2019 – Chinese government report predicts China’s population will peak at 1.44 billion in 2029 before declining.
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