1741 – Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine begins publishing.
1838 – Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions.
1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1878 – Silver dollar became US legal tender.
1883 – “Ladies Home Journal” begins publishing.
1909 – 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
1913 – US President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico.
1927 – US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey.
1932 – 1st patent for a tree issued to James Markham for a peach tree.
1937 – DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers.
1946 – 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport, Ct.
1950 – Longest-running prime-time game show, “What’s My Line” begins on CBS.
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista.
1963 – North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson.
1968 – US 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Alabama.
1975 – 17th Daytona 500: Benny Parsons wins (153.649 MPH)
1984 – Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold.
1992 – LA Lakers retire Magic Johnson’s #32 uniform.
1999 – O.J. Simpson’s 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.
2013 – Angelina Jolie undergoes a preventive double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer due to a defective BRCA1 gene.