1810 – Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US.
1886 – 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Barrington, Massachusetts.
1899 – “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer.
1918 – US naval boat “Cyclops” disappears in Bermuda Triangle.
1921 – Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee.
1933 – FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday.
1940 – 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC.
1950 – ‘Silly Putty’ goes on sale in US.
1954 – 1st ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Wake Forest, 82-80 (OT)
1959 – 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny, Raymond Burr win.
1964 – Boxing legend Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and changes his name to “Muhammad Ali”, calling the former title a “slave name”
1966 – Barry Sandler’s “Ballad of the Green Berets” becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1972 – Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf’s all-time money winner.
1981 – Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of “CBS Evening News”
1985 – Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1991 – Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H.W. Bush told Congress that “aggression is defeated. The war is over”
2001 – US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances.
2007 – Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq.
2018 – Forbes names Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the world’s richest person for the first time at $112 billion, Bill Gates is number 2.
2019 – US trade deficit rises to 10-year high of $621 billion.
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