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1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

1903 – US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.

1906 – Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world’s first air conditioner.

1918 – After repeated clashes over pay with the Brooklyn Robins, owner Charlie Ebbets, star right fielder and future Baseball Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel is traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1921 – 1st religious service radio broadcast in the US, KDKA-Pittsburgh.

1929 -US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls.

1934 – 1st state liquor stores open in Pennsylvania.

1944 – 1st use of helicopters during warfare (British Atlantic patrol)

1955 – 1st “Bob Cummings Show” premieres on NBC (later on CBS)

1960 – Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency.

1965 – Martin Luther King Jr., begins a drive to register black voters.

1965 – New York Jets sign future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath to a $427,000 contract over three years (pro football record at the time)

1970 – US populations is 293,200,000: African American population: 22,600,000.

1982 – “Camelot” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 48 performances.

1984 – Wilson Goode, sworn-in as Philadelphia’s 1st black mayor.

1990 – Dow Jones hits record 2,810.15.

1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13 degrees F: 68 deaths are reported.

2014 – Raul Castro gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and warns of “neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking” entering the country.

2019 – Apple CEO Tim Cook blames below expectation Chinese iPhone sales for downtown in company’s outlook, rocking international stock markets.

2021 – President Donald Trump says to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” in recording released by the Washington Post.

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