TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1962

Wilt Chamberlain scored 100points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands.

1932

The 20th Amendment to the Constitution, which moved the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to January 20, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.

1933

The motion picture “King Kong” had its world premiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy.

1939

Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius XII. The Massachusetts legislature voted to ratify the Bill of Rights, 147years after the first 10amendments to the U.S. Constitution had gone into effect.

1940

The cartoon character Elmer Fudd made his debut in the Warner Bros. animated short “Elmer’s Candid Camera,” in which the title character finds himself pitted against a rascally rabbit that was a precursor to Bugs Bunny.

1972

The United States launched the Pioneer 10space probe, which flew past Jupiter in late 1973, sending back images and scientific data.

1985

The government approved a screening test for AIDS that detected antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood to be excluded from the blood supply.

1990

More than 6,000drivers went on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc.

1995

The Internet search engine website Yahoo! was incorporated by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.