1884 – First long distance telephone call made from Boston to New York.
1890 – A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1912 – First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the bank of the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
1924 – Canada recognizes the USSR.
1930 – First US radio broadcast from ship at sea.
1941 – Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to the United States for 99 years.
1945 – World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan’s ports and waterway, begins.
1952 – “Singin’ In the Rain”, musical comedy directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
1957 – 29th Academy Awards: “Around the World in 80 Days”, Ingrid Bertman, Yul Brynner win.
1964 – Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars.
1968 – Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco.
1969 – Launch of Mariner 7 flies 2,190 miles above Southern Mars.
1972 – Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching basketball at the University of Kentucky.
1979 – US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that police officers can’t randomly stop cars.
1986 – Disney-MGM Studio Tour groundbreaking.
1994 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills Country Club: Donna Andrews wins her only major title by 1 shot over British runner-up Laura Davies. Andrews birdies final hole while Davies makes bogey.
2000 – Phillips plant explosion kills one and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
2012 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Betrayal” is published.
2020 – $2.2 trillion stimulus package, largest in American history, signed into law by President Donald Trump, saying, “I never signed anything with a ‘T’ on it.”
2023 – Catlin Clark records 41 points, 12 assists, and 10 rebounds in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for Iowa against Louisville.
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