1852 – Duke University, founded in 1838 as Union Institute, chartered as Normal College.
1916 – HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.
1922 – Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia is sworn in as the first female United States Senator.
1925 – Red Grange plays final game for the University of Illinois, then signs with the Chicago Bears.
1931 – Horror film “Frankenstein” is released, starring Boris Karloff as the monster, directed by James Whale, and based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein” or “The Modern Prometheus.”
1934 – The New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio contract from the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League.
1945 – General Motors workers go on strike.
1952 – The first US postage stamp in 2 colors using the rotary process is introduced. It’s the 3 cent International Red Cross stamp.
1956 – Pitcher Don Newcombe wins the National League Most Valuable Player award and the first Cy Young Award.
1963 – President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas. He is assassinated in Dallas the next day.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters, “I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.”
1973 – Cincinnati Reds’ Pete Rose wins the National League Most Valuable Player award.
1973 – President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the presence of an 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to the Watergate Hotel break-in.
1980 – Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84 people.
1989 – Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President George H.W. Bush.
1995 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 for the first time.
2013 – The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to Scottsboro Boys members Haywood Patterson, Charlie Weems and Andy Wright. The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American male teenagers accused of raping two white women in 1931.
2017 – CBS-TV host Charlie Rose is fired after allegations of sexual harassment by eight women.
2019 – 44% of Americans work in low wage jobs with the medium annual wage of $18,000 with most aged 25-54, according to analysis by Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program.
2023 – Changpeng Zhao, founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleads guilty to allowing customers to launder money. He agreed to pay $4.3 billion in fines to United States government.
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