1644 – Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies.
1801 – Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law.
1854 – Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
1857 – Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone.
1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1908 – Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announced that, “women are not physically fit to operate automobiles.
1911 – US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole.
1933 – Game of “Monopoly” invented.
1939 – Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record “Auld Lang Syne”
1945 – US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine.
1946 – “Three to Make Ready” opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 323 performances.
1955 – 7th Emmy Awards: Make Room for Daddy, Danny Thomas & Loretta Young win.
1955 – Mary Martin as “Peter Pan” televised.
1965 – Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma.
1974 – “Monitor” (US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras, NC.
1982 – NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time.
1994 – US Navy issues 1st permanent order assigning women on combat ship.
2011 – Charlie Sheen is fired from the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men”
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