Adolf Hitler seized control of the German army, 1938
USO formed, 1941
Saint Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital opened, 1962
Cybernet inaugurated, 1969
Earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras (22,000 killed), 1975
Torture Abolished by UN, 1985
Bowie Kuhn unanimously selected as baseball commissioner, 1969
Rolls-Royce declared bankruptcy, 1971
First winter Olympic Games held in US (Lake Placid, New York), 1932
The Interstate Commerce Act signed, 1887
“Republican” first proposed as the name for a new political party, 1854
Removable automobile wheel first used, 1913
Major League baseball’s first free agents (Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally), 1976
Sarah Miriam Peale, US portrait painter, died, 1885