1988 Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles
1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1933 Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only U.S. president to do so

1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1962 Egyptian President Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1959 Barbie, the popular girls’ doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began

1998 Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial
1980 Egypt and Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1929 President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
1907 U.S. Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500

1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bulls record 58 points in a game
1987 U.S. Supreme Court upholds affirmative action, 5-4
1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
1879 Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act
1862 Paper currency introduced in U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln

1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg found
1987 Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1977 President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights
1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
1903 U.S. signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba

1988 Anthony M. Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
1979 Snow falls in Sahara Desert
1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii
1930 U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs

1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1988 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador
1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
1887 1st newspaper convention in Rochester, New York
1878 Silver dollar became U.S. legal tender

1995 Population of People’s Republic of China hits 1.2 billion
1989 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
1939 German battleship Bismarck was launched
1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
1898 USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die

1991 U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
1964 GI Joe character created
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S.
1895 Volleyball invented by W. G. Morgan in Massachusetts
1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president

1993 James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1922 Reader’s Digest magazine 1st published
1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow