1781 – British and American forces clash during the Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina. British suffer heavy losses, surrendering to George Washington in October.
1855 – Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine.
1892 – New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machines)
1912 – Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.
1922 – 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta, Georgia)
1937 – 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh, NC)
1937 – First American blood bank in a hospital is opened at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
1945 – 17th Academy Awards: “Going My Way”, Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman win.
1950 – NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official “rainmaker”
1954 – “CBS Morning Show” premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar.
1955 – US Air Force unveils self-guided missile.
1956 – “My Fair Lady” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 points in an NBA season.
1968 – LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world”
1977 – TV comedy “Three’s Company” starring Jack Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt premieres on ABC.
1985 – The first internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered.
1991 – 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King.
2009 – 56th ACC Men’s Basketball tournament: #9 Duke beats #22 Florida State, 79-69.
2017 – Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film “Beauty and the Beast” for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia.
2018 – Toy chain Toys R Us announces it will close all its stores after filing for bankruptcy.
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