1789 – US House of Representative 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker.
1841 – Longest US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison.
1865 – Abraham Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as US president.
1902 – American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago.
1913 – 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed.
1918 – First recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kansas, start of worldwide pandemic killing 50-100 million.
1924 – “Happy Birthday To You” published by Claydon Sunny.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the highest-paid player in MLB history when he signs 3-year, $70,000 per season contract with the New York Yankees.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President, pledges to pull US out of the Depression, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
1944 – 1st US bombing of Berlin.
1954 – Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1966 – John Lennon says “We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus”
1976 – Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth.
1983 – U.S. Public Heath Service’s publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS.
1985 – WWII veterans returned to the “Bridge over the River Kwai”
1990 – US 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space.
1997 – US President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
2009 – U.S. Steel announce the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasing worsen effects of the global economic slowdown.
2019 – US Democrats announce a wide-ranging corruption investigation into President Donald Trump.
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