1892 – New York state unveils automatic ballot booth, also called a voting machine.
1912 – Legendary pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with a 511-315 win-loss record.
1922 – First southern radio station, WSB in Atlanta, Georgia, begins broadcasting.
1930 – First streamlined submarine of the US Navy, the USS Nautilus, launched.
1937 – First state contraceptive control clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1945 – 17th Academy Awards: “Going My Way”, Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman win.
1950 – New York City hires Dr. Wallace E. Howell as its official “rainmaker.”
1958 – Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Royals scores a NBA midwest region-record 56 points in a game.
1962 – Richard Rodgers’ musical drama “No Strings”, starring Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley, opens at the 54th Street Theatre. It later transferred to the Broadhurst in New York and ran for 580 performances and won 3 Tony Awards.
1965 – T.G.I. Friday’s first restaurant opens in New York City.
1972 – “The Godfather”, based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlo Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in New York City. It wins Academy Awards for Best Picture in 1973.
1977 – TV comedy “Three’s Company,” starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, and Joyce DeWitt, premieres on ABC.
1985 – Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in the 10th round for heavyweight boxing title.
1989 – US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position.
1991 – Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department are charged with excessive force over the beating of Rodney King.
1998 – Revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Cabaret”, starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, opens at Club Expo Theater in New York City. The play runs for 2,377 performances and wins 4 Tony Awards.
2009 – 56th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #9 Duke beats #22 Florida State 79-69.
2017 – Disney refuses to cut gay moment in the film “Beauty and the Beast” for Malaysian censors. Instead the company pulls film from Malaysia.
2020 – US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero to support the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 – Vatican issues judgement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions, that God “does not and cannot bless sin.”
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