1911 – Ivan Caryll’s musical “The Pink Lady” premieres at the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City and runs for 336 performances.
1918 – American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms.
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.
1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio.
1943 – Baseball approves official ball with cork and balata.
1950 – General Motors Corporation reports record net earnings of $656,434,232.
1956 – “The Searchers,” an American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood, is released.
1960 – LPGA Titleholders Championship, Augusta Country Club: Fay Crocker of Uruguay wins by 7 strokes ahead of Kathy Cornelius.
1965 – The Beatles “Eight Days a Week” single goes #1 and stays there for two weeks.
1969 – Apollo 9 returns to Earth after a successful 10-day Earth-orbital mission, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas.
1970 – Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer.
1980 – Ford Motor Co. is found innocent in the death of three women in a fiery Pinto crash in 1978.
1986 – Microsoft has its initial public offering.
1991 – Exxon pays $1 billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill.
1993 – Blizzard of ’93 hits the eastern United States, causing widespread disruption, record snowfall, and significant damage, with some areas seeing up to 5 feet of snow. Mount Mitchell in North Carolina recorded 50 inches on snow.
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.
2024 – House of Representatives to force TikTok owner China-based ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a ban in the United States.
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