1914 – Federal Reserve System formally opens.
1920 – First postage stamp meter is set in Stamford, Conn.
1924 – Cleveland Bulldogs lose 12-7 to Frankford Yellow Jackets at Dunn Field to end a NFL and major football 31-game undefeated streak.
1933 – President Franklin Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the USSR.
1935 – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s musical “Jumbo” premieres in New York City.
1944 – United States 9th Division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen, Germany during World War II.
1950 – President Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat.
1957 – Boston center Bill Russell sets a NBA record with 49 rebounds as the Celtics beat the Philadelphia Warriors 111-89 at Boston Gardens.
1961 – President John F. Kennedy decided to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing United States combat troops.
1965 – Walt Disney launches Epcot Center, an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
1973 – Singer David Bowie performs on TV’s “Midnight Special” with the set including a duet with Marianne Faithfull covering Sonny & Cher’s hit “I Got You, Babe.”
1980 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Doug Williams throws for 486 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-30 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
1985 – President Ronald Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1995 – Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson’s disease.
1998 – Monica Lewinsky signs a book deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with President Bill Clinton.
2005 – CBS television broadcasts “I Walk the Line: A Night for Johnny Cash” featuring concert performances by Dwight Yoakam, Martina McBride, Alison Krauss, U2, Norah Jones, Foo Fighters, Sheryl Crow and others.
2010 – In University Park, Texas, the groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center takes place.
2018 – Elevator falls down 84 floors when a hoist rope breaks. All six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center in Chicago.
2022 – Republican party regains control of the House of Representatives by a narrow margin with Kevin McCarthy as leader of the House.
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