1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
1820 – Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union.
1855 – Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine.
1867 – Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university.
1892 – NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine).
1912 – Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins.
1922 – 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta, Georgia).
1933 – NACCP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination.
1937 – 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh, NC).
1950 – NYC hires Dr. Wallace E. Howell as its official “rainmaker”.
1954 – “CBS Morning Show” premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar.
1956 – “My Fair Lady” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances.
1958 – Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis. He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled.
1965 – T.G.I Friday’s 1st restaurant opens in NYC.
1972 – “The Godfather”, based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Best Picture 1973).
1985 – The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered.
1992 – 39th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #20 North Carolina, 94-74.
1994 – 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win.
2004 – Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
2013 – 16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
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