1865 – Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads, North Carolina.
1903 – Harry Gammeter of Cleveland patents multigraph duplicating machine.
1913 – William Knox becomes first in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300.
1933 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 120 and destroys 70 school buildings.
1933 – Nevada becomes first state to regulate narcotics.
1941 – Lee MacPhail, Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, predicts all players will wear batting helmets.
1945 – Deadliest air raid of World War II sets Tokyo on fire after nighttime B-19 bombings. More than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.
1959 – Dorothy Comiskey Rigney sells her 54% share of Major League Baseball’s Chicago White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27 million.
1963 – Infielder Pete Rose debuts with Cincinnati at spring training in Tampa, Florida. He has hits in his first 2 at-bats.
1969 – James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
1971 – US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18.
1980 – Willard Scott becomes the weather forecaster on the Today Show.
1985 – 32nd ACC Men’s Basketball tournament: Georgia Tech beats North Carolina 57-54.
1990 – Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by American Jill Trenary.
1991 – Eddie Sutton is first NCAA coach to lead four schools into the NCAA tournament.
1996 – 43rd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #12 Wake Forest beats #18 Georgia Tech 75-74.
2007 – 21st Soul Train Music Awards: Jermaine Dupri and Jennifer Hudson win.
2014 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia’s Vladimir Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine’s constitution.
2020 – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after a one-mile radius zone established as 108 cases of COVID-19 detected.
2020 – Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold the office of President for life.
2023 – Xi Jinping appointed to a historic third term as President of China. Office had previously been restricted to two terms.
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