1830 – New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever with 31 shares traded.
1900 – American League meets in Chicago. Ban Johnson announces AL will be Chicago White Stockings, Washington Senators, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Blues, Boston Americans, Philadelphia Athletics and Baltimore Orioles.
1915 – Federal Trade Commission organizes.
1918 – Geoffrey O’Hara’s “K-K-K-Katy” song published.
1930 – USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine.
1941 – Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60.
1947 – Convair Liner, first US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested.
1952 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta Country Club: Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins her third Titleholders title by seven strokes over Betsy Rawls.
1957 – 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young win.
1964 – President Lyndon Johnson asks Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty.
1966 – Gemini 8 launched with Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott aboard, conducts the first docking of two spacecrafts in orbit, flight aborted after critical system failure with the crew returned safely to Earth.
1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1974 – First performance at the Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville.
1984 – Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut.
1991 – Seven members of Reba McEntire’s band are killed in a plane crash.
1998 – Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
2008 – Dale Jarrett retires from points racing after the 2008 Food City 500.
2016 – President Barack Obama nominates Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Justice.
2021 – Declassified United States Intelligence report says Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized efforts to aid the re-election of Donald Trump.
2022 – Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the first time since 2018 by a quarter of a point to help ease rising price inflation.
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