1900 – Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees) enter baseball’s American League.
1909 – Collier’s magazine accuses Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
1920 – Hudson River freezes in Albany.
1927 – New York-New Jersey Holland Tunnel, first twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens.
1940 – Walt Disney’s animated film “Fantasia,” starring Leopold Stokowski, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Mickey Mouse, and ballet dancing hippopotamuses, premieres at the Broadway Theatre, New York City.
1942 – Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18.
1952 – False fingernails first sold.
1956 – Supreme Court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional.
1964 – Bob Petit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes first NBA player to score 20,000 points.
1966 – Comedian Flip Wilson makes his debut appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.’ He returns 10 times.
1968 – Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win National League Most Valuable Player.
1974 – Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey wins National League Most Valuable Player.
1979 – Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for President in New York City.
1982 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War.
1990 – Saudis ask United States for rights to bid on SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) crude.
1994 – 44th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins.
2001 – President George W. Bush orders that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve be filled to capacity over the next few years.
2014 – Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout win Most Valuable Player awards in Major League Baseball.
2018 – Amazon announces two new corporate outposts in Queens, New York and Arlington, Virginia.
2022 – Four Idaho University students stabbed and killed in their home in Moscow, Idaho. Suspect Bryan Kohberger was arrested seven weeks later.
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