1822 – Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth.
1858 – Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox.
1933 – US Congress is called into special session by FDR, beginning its “100 days”.
1946 – Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League, he refuses.
1950 – Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC.
1951 – Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb.
1954 – 1st local color TV commercial WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators).
1959 – Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.
1962 – US advisors in South Vietnam join the fight.
1964 – 1st Ford Mustang produced.
1968 – 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sgt Pepper’s wins 4
1974 – 21st ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: NC State beats Maryland, 103-100 (OT).
1975 – Construction on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1979 – Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
1981 – 7th People’s Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda & Goldie Hawn win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV).
1986 – NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts.
1987 – Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion.
1995 – Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
2007 – The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
2015 – US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the US.
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