1780 – American Academy of Arts & Science founded in Boston, James Baldwin, John and Samuel Adams founding members.
1805 – Henry C. Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx.
1846 – US state Michigan ends death penalty.
1864 – General Ulysses S. Grant’s Union Army at Potomac attacks Robert E. Lee’s Confederates at Rappahannock River.
1878 – Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House.
1883 – John Gordon Cashmans begins “Vicksburg Evening Post” (Miss)
1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1932 – Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion.
1942 – Food 1st rationed in US.
1944 – “Gaslight”, starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released.
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for “The Old Man & The Sea”
1957 – Alan Freed hosts “Rock n’ Roll Show” 1st prime-time network rock show.
1959 – First Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win.
1964 – “Another World” premieres on TV in the US.
1984 – Dave Klingman’s fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1991 – Morris K. Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease.
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2008 – Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep “Family Guy” and American Dad” on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world’s highest paid television writer.
2013 – Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
2015 – Golden State Warrior Stephan Curry is named MVP for the 2014-15 NBA season.
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