1639 – Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard.
1677 – Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.
1852 – Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.
1884 – US adopts Standard Time.
1911 – Ivan Caryll’s musical “Pink Lady” premieres in NYC.
1915 – Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit.
1928 – Rudolph Friml’s musical “Three Musketeers” premieres in NYC.
1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1950 – General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record).
1956 – “The Searchers” American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood is released.
1960 – NFL’s Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis.
1960 – White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players’ names above number.
1970 – Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer.
1980 – Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto.
1982 – TV drama “T.J. Hooker” premieres on US’s ABC network starring William Shatner.
1986 – Microsoft has its initial public offering.
1991 – Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill.
2004 – Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Tosca”.
2005 – Bob Igar is named CEO of Walt Disney International, succeeding Michael Eisner.
2012 – Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of it encyclopedia.