1965 – Art Arfons sets land-speed record
1916 – Jeannette Rankin becomes first U.S. congresswoman
1944 – FDR wins unprecedented fourth term
1955 – The movie “Guys and Dolls” based on stories by Damon Runyon was copyright registered
1887 – Doc Holliday dies of tuberculosis
1895 – Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen discovers X-rays
1951 – Yogi Berra is the AL MVP
1960 – John F. Kennedy elected president
1956 – Cecile B Demille’s “The Ten Commandments” was copyright registered
1960 – Robert McNamara becomes president of Ford Motor Company
1965 – The Great Northeast Blackout
1989 – East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
1842 – George Bruce received the first design patent for printing type faces
