1846 – Dentist William T. Morton demonstrates effectiveness of ether.
1869 – Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing.
1901 – Booker T. Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and Edith Roosevelt prompting condemnation from the South.
1916 – Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic in the US at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.
1923 – Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded.
1923 – John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1939 – George Kaufman and Moss Hart’s comedy “The Man Who Came to Dinner” opens at the Music Box Theatre, NYC, runs for 739 performances.
1942 – National Boxing Association freezes titles of those serving in armed services.
1949 – Red Byron in an Oldsmobile finishes 16th in the Wilkes 200 at North Wilkesboro Speedway to win NASCAR Strictly Stock Championship in the inaugural season of pro stock car racing in the United States.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins as JFK is shown photos confirming the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
1969 – Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series.
1979 – Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Theodore Schultz and William Arthur Lewis for economic development research, particularly for developing countries.
1982 – Secretary of State George P. Shultz warns the US will withdraw from the UN if they vote to exclude Israel.
1986 – US government shuts down due to disputes between President Reagan and the House.
1992 – “Gilligan’s Island” TV pilot filmed in 1964 is 1st shown on TV (TBS)
1995 – Million Man March held in Washington, D.C. (over 830,000 African American men attend)
2013 – The United States ends its 10-day government shut down and avoids default in a bi-partisan deal in the Senate.
2018 – Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, begin their first royal tour visiting Australia and New Zealand.
2019 – Netflix reveals its most popular original movie was Sandra Bullock’s “Bird Box” and TV series “Stranger Things” for the year.
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