1852 – Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly.
1868 – Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial.
1869 – Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law.
1884 – US adopts Standard Time.
1911 – Ivan Caryll’s musical “Pink Lady” premieres in NYC.
1915 – Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit.
1925 – Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution.
1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1947 – 19th Academy Awards – “Best Years of Our Lives”, De Havilland, March win.
1950 – General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record).
1961 – JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress.
1970 – Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer.
1972 – 7th Academy of Country Music Awards: Freddie Hart and Loretta Lynn win.
1980 – Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto.
1986 – Microsoft has its initial public offering.
1992 – FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12).
2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2011 – 58th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #5 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 75-58.
2012 – Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopedia.
2013 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis.
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