Oldest greyhound track (Derby Lane) opened, 1925
BSD Unix 3.0 released, 1980
Battle of Stone’s River (Tennessee) ended, 1863
Apple Computer founded, 1977
Johnny Most, Boston Celtics announcer, died, 1993
Alfred Hitchcock knighted, 1980
Jack Ruby, assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, died, 1967
First US patent list issued, 1872
George Steinbrenner bought the New York Yankees, 1973
Brooklyn Bridge groundbreaking, 1870
Babe Ruth sold to New York Yankees by Boston Red Sox, 1920
Alaska became the 49th US state, 1959
First “March of Dimes” anti-polio campaign organized, 1938
Battle of Princeton (New Jersey), 1777
Robert Owen bought 30,000 acres for New Harmony, Indiana, 1825
“Dragnet” premiered on NBC-TV, 1952
Jaroslav Hasek, novelist (“The Good Soldier Schweik”), died, 1923
US severed diplomatic ties with Cuba, 1961
Josiah Wedgewood, English pottery designer and manufacturer, died, 1795
Russia first bought Wheat from the US, 1964
Experimental reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho killed three workers, 1961
Edmund Hillary reached the South Pole, 1958
Liberty Foundation (political party organized by Jerry Falwell) formed, 1986
Opening of US Congress first televised, 1947