The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta’s Greenbriar Mall.
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George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
From this day until February 10, 1435, London's Thames river completely froze.