1822 – Charles Graham of New York granted the first US patent for artificial teeth.
1897 – Cleveland fans start calling the baseball team “Indians.” The team had been known as the Spiders, Babes, Buckeyes, Clevelands and Bronchos before becoming the Indians in 1915.
1923 – Elmer Rice’s play “Adding Machine” premieres in New York City.
1926 – Bertha Landes elected first woman mayor of Seattle and first female mayor of any major American city.
1933 – Congress is called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, beginning its “100 Days..”
1945 – 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.
1946 – Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League. He refuses.
1951 – Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they propose their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.
1957 – 4th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats South Carolina 95-75.
1959 – Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.
1962 – United States advisors in South Vietnam join the fight.
1964 – First Ford Mustang produced.
1974 – 21st ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland 103-100 in overtime.
1979 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
1986 – 33rd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Duke beats Georgia Tech 68-67.
1991 – America’s 70th manned space mission, STS 39 (Discovery K12), launches into orbit.
2002 – Financial advice TV show “The Suze Orman Show” starring Suze Orman premieres on CNBC.
2015 – President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the United States.
2022 – Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian city of Mariupol hit a hospital, killing at least three people, as attempts to create a humanitarian corridor out of the city fail.
2023 – United Nations announces it has purchased a crude carrier to remove barrels of oil from a stricken ship off the coast of Yemen to prevent an environmental and humanitarian disaster.
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