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.
1907 – First involuntary sterilization law enacted in Indiana, making sterilization mandatory for certain individuals in state custody.
1922 – Eugene O’Neill’s “Hairy Ape” premieres in New York City.
1933 – Congress is called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, beginning its “100 days” in which it passes 77 laws.
1942 – Construction of the Alaska Highway begins.
1945 – 334 United States B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs.
1946 – Ted Williams refuses an offer of $500,000 to play in the Mexican Baseball League.
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.
1954 – Journalist Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy on his “See it Now” TV program for his anti-Communist investigation.
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 – Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in the Philippines, surrenders, 20 years after World War II ended.
1979 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
1986 – 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30.1 million.
1987 – Chrysler Corporation offers to buy American Motors for $1 billion.
1996 – NASA space shuttle STA-75, Columbia 19, lands.
2007 – The Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about American citizens.
2020 – Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to a spike in COVID-19 cases with 10,040 cases and 630 deaths.
2023 – Russia begins a major missile attack on Ukrainian cities and their infrastructure, with at least 11 killed and 20 injured.
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