1831 – George Pullman, American engineer and businessman, founded the Pullman Company (d. 1897) is born.
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer, invented the Telephone (d. 1922) is born.
1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1913) dies.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2005 – Mayerthorpe tragedy: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2014 – The trial of Oscar Pistorius begins in Pretoria.
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