1775 – First US Navy forms when Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet.
1792 – “Old Farmer’s Almanac” is 1st published and edited by Robert Thomas.
1845 – Texas ratifies a state constitution.
1885 – The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1890 – The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1903 – Victor Herbert’s “Babes in Toyland” premieres in NYC.
1914 – Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask.
1931 – Musical “Everybody’s Welcome” with T/J Dorsey premieres in NYC.
1944 – US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII.
1950 – “All About Eve” directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter premieres (Best Picture 1951).
1960 – Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba.
1966 – 173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam.
1975 – 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins.
1978 – US President Jimmy Carter answers callers’ questions on National Public Radio.
1983 – Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1989 – Dow Jones down 190.58 points.
1990 – Target Center in Minneapolis opens.
1993 – Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
1999 – The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2015 – First Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast by CNN, held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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