1883 – Four standard time zones for the Continental US introduced – Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific, replacing over 100 previous time zones.
1902 – Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt.
1913 – Lincoln Deachey becomes the first American pilot to perform an aircraft loop-the-loop in his Curtiss aeroplane near San Diego.
1928 – Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” released, first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon.
1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
1949 – NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP.
1956 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase “We will bury you!” to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow.
1959 – “Ben-Hur” directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston premieres in New York City (Academy Awards Best Picture 1960)
1960 – Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration.
1963 – Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania.
1966 – US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays.
1970 – Russia lands self-propelled rover on Moon.
1979 – 29th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Richard Petty wins.
1984 – NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery “Fatal Vision”: based on Joe McGinnis’ novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children.
1990 – “Fiddler on the Roof” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 241 performances.
1997 – Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft.
2003 – Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional.
2012 – 40th American Music Awards: Katy Perry & Justin Bieber win.
2018 – American missionary John Allen Chau killed on forbidden North Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal by one of world’s most isolated tribes..
.2020 – US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge.
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