1779 – US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1865 – General William T. Sherman’s union forces occupies Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1893 – 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)
1918 – First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu at the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1927 – 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh.
1941 – FDR signs Lead-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1941 – Brondo Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn., to become wrestling champ.
1953 – 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1954 – US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics.
1958 – American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft. on a family in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft. across; bomb without its nuclear capsule.
1958 – Starting this season, American League batters are required to wear batting helmets.
1959 – “Raisin in the Sun”, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens.
1963 – US Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara orders the adoption by the US military of the M16 assault rifle, originally designed as the AR-15 by Eugene Stoner.
1968 – Otis Redding is the first person in the US to posthumously received gold record for his single “Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay”
1982 – William Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigns rather than face expulsion.
1986 – NFL adopts instant replay rule.
1991 – Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf’s streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1.
1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2007 – 54th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #8 North Carolina beats NC State, 89-80.
2018 – Superhero movie “The Black Panther” becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn $1 billion worldwide.
2018 – China’s National People’s Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, will allow XI Jinping presidency for life.
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