1675 – 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1790 – 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.
1806 – Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105′ blue whale in Oregon.
1835 – The United States national debt is 0 for the first and only time.
1853 – 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington, DC.
1856 – Dr. John A. Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California.
1889 – Dr. Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a mechanical tabulating machine.
1904 – Pope Pius X banned low cut dresses in the presence of churchmen.
1918 – US President Wilson outlines his Fourteen Points for peace after the Great War.
1945 – “Youth for Christ” organizes.
1955 – WUNC TV channel 4 in Chapel Hill, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting.
1956 – Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog” single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)
1962 – Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 21, 1st pro appearance. He came in 50th.
1972 – NCAA announces freshman can play on teams starting in fall.
1975 – Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate’s John W. Dean III, Herbert W. Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison.
1984 – NCAA announces that basketball tournament will have 64 teams.
1988 – Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator.
1989 – “42nd Street” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances.
1998 – Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer.
2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
2011 – Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords.
2012 – “The 3:16 Game”, the Denver Broncos’ Tim Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas on an 80-yard touchdown pass on the first scrimmage play of overtime, giving the underdog Broncos a 29-23 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Wild Card Playoff Game.
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