1800 – John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the White House.
1834 – First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)
1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles, in good conditions.
1913 – Notre Dame upset Army, 35-13 in the colleges’ inaugural football game; quarterback Gus Dorais (14 of 17 passes, 243 yards, 2 TDs and receiver Knute Rockne use forward pass effectively.
1921 – National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood league merge as American Birth Control League.
1931 – Dupont introduces synthetic rubber.
1939 – First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed.
1941 – Japanese naval staff officers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbor..
1950 – Celtic’s forward Chuck Cooper becomes first African American to play in the NBA in Boston’s 107-84 loss at Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for Celtics.
1950 Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C.: attack thwarted by White House Police, including Officer Leslie Cofelt who was killed in the line of duty.
1955 – Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado.
1964 – Cleveland running back Jim Brown runs for 149 yards in Browns’ 30-17 win at Pittsburgh to become the first NFL player to exceed 10,000 yards career rushing.
1967 – “Cool Hand Luke”, starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released.
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour effective from 1st January 1981.
1981 – 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents.
1992 – Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled).
1997 – North Carolina State University wide receiver Tory Holt catches 5 touchdown passes in a 48-35 loss to Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee.
2007 – Joe Torre, the winningest manager in MLB postseason history, moves from one storied franchise (NY Yankees) to another (LA Dodgers), agreeing to a 3-year, $13 million contract.
2012 – Google’s Gmail becomes the world’s most popular email service.
2021 – Novavax COVID-19 vaccine receives its first emergency use authorization in Indonesia, the first protein-based covid vaccine.
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