1888 – Great Blizzard of 1888 rages across the east coast of the United States and Canada.
1911 – Stanley Cup, Dey’s Arena, Ottawa, Ontario; Ottawa Senators beat Gait (Ontario) 7-4.
1923 – American inventor Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving picture in New York City.
1933 – American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday.
1943 – Baseball approves official ball with cork and balata.
1947 – 19th Academy Awards: “Best Years of Our Lives” wins Best Picture, Olivia de Havilland wins Best Actress and Fredric March wins Best Actor.
1947 – Alan Jay Lerner and Fredrick Loewe’s musical “Brigadoon” opens at Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. It runs for 581 performances.
1950 – General Motors Corporation reports record net earnings of $656,434,232.
1955 – LPGA Titleholders Championship, Augusta Country Club: Patty Berg wins her 6th Titleholders title by 2 strokes over Mary Lena Faulk.
1961 – President John F. Kennedy sets up the Alliance for Progress.
1968 – Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah, kills 6,000 sheep.
1972 – 7th Academy of Country Music Awards: Freddie Hart and Loretta Lynn win.
1980 – John Wayne Gacy receives the death sentence in Illinois for the murder of 12 people.
1986 – 12th People’s Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone and Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby and Linda Evans win (TV).
1988 – 35th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Duke beats North Carolina 65-61.
1992 – Federal Communications Commission rules companies can own 30 AM and 30 FM stations. It had been 12 AM and 12 FM stations.
2005 – Bob Iger is named CEO of Walt Disney International, succeeding Michael Eisner.
2012 – Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopedia.
2018 – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump.
2019 – United States grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by other countries following the plane type’s second crash in Ethiopia.
2023 – Vinyl records outsell CDs in the United States for the first time since 1987 (41 million vinyl records vs, 33 million CDs), according to a report.
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