1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded.
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.
1918 – The Stars and Stripes, the weekly newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces, was published for the first time.
1924 – John Joseph Carty of the Bell Telephone System gave a speech in Chicago, IL, that was carried across the nation on the first coast-to-coast radio hookup. An estimated 50-million people heard the speech.
1960 – U.S. Congressional investigators began exploring the influence of payola in the radio and record industries. Alan Freed and American Bandstand host, Dick Clark, among others, were called to testify.
1963 – Lamar Hunt, owner of the American Football League franchise in Dallas, TX, moved the operation to Kansas City. He named the new team the Chiefs. Dallas got possession of an NFL franchise known as the Cowboys.
1971 – NASDAQ, the world’s first electronic stock exchange, conducted its initial trading day.
1984 – The XIV Winter Olympics opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina). The Olympic facilities have since been all but destroyed by the war in Bosnia.
1992 – The XVI Winter Olympic Games opened in Albertville, France.
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