1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states.
1862 – Battle of New Bern, North Carolina: General Burnside conquers New Bern.
1900 – US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act.
1907 – By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA.
1923 – US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes.
1936 – Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue.
1950 – FBI’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” program begins.
1954 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Louise Suggs wins her second Titleholders title by 7 strokes from Patty Berg.
1960 – Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points.
1962 – Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals.
1964 – Dallas, Texas: Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder.
1971 – Barbra Streisand appears on “The Burt Bacharach Special” on CBS TV.
1973 – Future US Senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.
1980 – Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1990 – 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson win.
2004 – 51st ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Maryland beats #5 Duke, 95-87.
2005 – Mike Wallace retires from news program “60 Minutes” after 37 years.
2016 – NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally – 1.35C above the long term average.
2019 – US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration.
2019 – California officially free of drought for the first time in more than 7 years (Dec 2011)
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