1732 – George Washington, the 1st President of the United State (1789 – 1797) was born.
1819 – The United States acquired Florida from Spain under the Adams – Onís Treaty.
1879 – Frank W. Woolworth opened his first 5 and 10-cent store in Utica, NY.
1918 – The Montana legislature passed a Sedition Law in reaction to fears of treacherous German spies and domestic labor violence. Three months later, the U.S. Congress adopted a federal Sedition Act modeled on the Montana law.
1919 – The first dog race track to use an imitation rabbit opened in Emeryville, CA.
1923 – The first successful chinchilla farm opened in Los Angeles, CA.
1954 – ABC radio’s popular Breakfast Club, program with longtime host, Don McNeill, was simulcast on TV beginning this day. The telecast didn’t do well, but the radio program went on to break records as the longest-running program on the air.
1956 – Elvis Presley entered the music charts for the first time, when Heartbreak Hotel began its climb to the number one spot on the pop listing, reaching the top on April 11, 1956. It stayed at the top for eight weeks.
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1969 – Barbara Jo Rubin became the first woman to win a U.S. thoroughbred horse race. She was riding Cohesian at Charlestown Race Course in West Virginia.
1980 – The ‘Miracle on Ice’ occurred during the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, NY, when the U.S. defeated the Soviet Union in a dramatic 4-3 victory in men’s hockey. The U.S. went on to defeat Finland, 4-2, two days later to win the gold medal.
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