1801 – Massachusetts enacts first state voter registration law.
1854 – Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machines to stitch buttonholes.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US.
1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1908 – Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before city council and announces that, “women are not physically fit to operate automobiles”
1911 – US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
1918 – President Woodrow Wilson authorizes US Army’s Distinguished Service Medal.
1933 – Game of “Monopoly” invented.
1939 – Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record “Auld Lang Syne”
1945 – US 9th Armored Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine.
1958 – Chicago Cardinals announce they will play their 1958 opener in Buffalo.
1974 – “USS Monitor”, Union ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras.
1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets US President Jimmy Carter.
1985 – IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (updated) released.
1990 – Wayne Huizenga buys 1/2 of Joe Robbie Stadium and 15% of Dolphins for $30m.
1994 – US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship.
1995 – NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty.
1996 – 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
2013 – UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing.
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