1855 – Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine.
1892 – New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machines)
1912 – Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.
1922 – 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta, Georgia)
1930 – 1st streamlined submarine of US Navy, USS Nautilus, launched.
1941- Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 people.
1945 – Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1954 – “CBS Morning Show” premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar.
1955 – US Air Force unveils self-guided missle.
1958 – Oscar Robinson of Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56-point game.
1965 – T.G.I Friday’s 1st restaurant opens in NYC.
1971 – Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet.
1981 – “Broadway Follies” opens/closed season at Nederlander Theater, NYC.
1985 – The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered.
1989 – US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position.
1992 – 39th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beast #20 North Carolina, 94-74.
1998 – “Cabaret opens at Club Expo Theater, NYC, starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson.
2013 – Justin Timberlake releases his 3rd studio album “The 20/20 Experience” (2013 Billboard Album of the Year)
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.
2020 – US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero to support the economy during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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