1806 – Construction is authorized off the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1848 – Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam.
1852 – Ohio makes it illegal for children under 18 and women to work more than 10 hours a day.
1882 – Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men.
1912 – Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”
1936 – 10,000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis.
1943 – Meat (784 gram/week, 2 kilograms for GI’s), butter & cheese rationed in US during WW II.
1951 – American citizen Julius and Ether Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
1961 – 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, allowing Washington, D.C. residents to vote in presidential elections.
1962 – Jack Paar’s final appearance on the “Tonight Show”
1971 – 1st Lt. William L Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre.
1971 – Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced.
1973 – US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Resolution.
1987 – WrestleMania III: 93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant.
1989 – Michael Milliken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering.
1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 – above 10,000 mark for the first time ever.
2013 – American horse, Animal Kingdom, wins the 2013 Dubai World Cup.
2017 – Ivanka Trump assumes an unpaid position as Advisor to the President, Donald Trump.
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