1630 – Letters Patent issued to Plymouth Colony.
1794 – Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 strips.
1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
1863 – Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, NYC.
1906 – 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile.
1920 – NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly.
1927 – US & Mexico battle over oil interests.
1930 – “Mickey Mouse” comic strip 1st appears.
1942 – Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies.
1957 – Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 points vs Chicago.
1972 – Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire.
1975 – Henry Kissinger hints at military action against oil countries in case of “actual strangulation of the industrialized world” in the wake of oil shock.
1979 – Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam.
1982 – Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., & falls into Potomac River, killing 78.
1990 – 1st elected African American governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
1994 – Tonya Harding’s bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1999 – Basketball player Michael Jordan announces his retirement only to return in 2001.
2000 – Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position.
2016 – Record Powerball lottery held in America – $1.6 billion, (3 winning tickets)
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