1907 – United States sends troops to Honduras to halt the Nicaraguan army takeover.
1917 – Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy’s first female Petty Officer.
1924 – Mass Investors Trust becomes first mutual fund set up in the United States.
1935 – Persia is officially renamed Iran.
1941 – In a hard fought 15th title defense, Joe Louis knocks out Abe Simon in the 15th round at Olympia Stadium in Detroit to retain the NYSAC heavyweight boxing crown.
1945 – During WWII, Allied bombers’ 4-day raid over Germany.
1947 – President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have “complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States.”
1951 – 2.9 million US soldiers in Korea.
1956 – 28th Academy Awards: “Marty”, Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win.
1961 – Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then-record sum of $3.925 million.
1963 – Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed.
1971 – Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132 feet, 2 inches.
1973 – White House Counsel John Dean tells President Richard Nixon, “There is a cancer growing on the Presidency.”
1982 – Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard.
1991 – 27 lost at sea when two US Navy anti-submarine planes collide.
1994 – 66th Academy Awards: “Schindler’s List”, Tom Hanks and Holly Hunter win.
2006 – First ever tweet sent out by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey “just setting up my twttr”.
2018 – China announces greater controls over the media, including state run radio and television broadcasters into a single conglomerate called “Voice of China”.
2018 – Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg admits they “made mistakes” after data on 50 million users is harvested by Cambridge Analytica.
2022 – 178 wildfires have burnt more than 108,000 acres in southwest Texas, according to local fire officials with 23 still active.
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