1851 – Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
1901 – US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce
1938 – American Bowling Congress’ largest tournament (24,765 competitors)
1962 – British Antarctic Territory forms
1972 – Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1980 – 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus is decommissioned
1994 – “Philoktetes Variations” with Ron Vawter premieres in Brussels
1996 – Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final
2015 – “Under the Dome” a documentary on pollution in China by Chai Jing has been viewed over 150 million times in 3 days on Tencent
2016 – Eleventh Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox, held in Detroit, Michigan