1795 – 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
1887 – Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
1900 – General Horatio Kitchener offers protections to all Boers who will surrender and asks the Dutch community of Pretoria to convey this offer, leaders in the field refuse to surrender
1918 – Robert Ripley began his “Believe It or Not” column (NY Globe)
1949 – WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, Ohio (CBS) begins broadcasting
1973 – “Molly” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
1988 – NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1991 – 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
2004 – World’s largest indoor water park Tropical Islands Resort, opens in the Aerium, an old airship hanger, in the world’s largest free-standing hall, south of Berlin, Germany
2018 – US President Donald Trump announces victory over the Islamic State and planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria