Today In History...
In 1519 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I dies.
In 1773 America's first public museum is opened in Charleston, SC.
In 1820 The Royal Astronomical Society is founded in England.
In 1912 Washta, Idaho, records the state's low temperature record of minus
47 degrees.
In 1915 The U.S. House of Representatives reject a proposal to give women
the right to vote.
In 1929 America's longest railway tunnel (8 miles) is completed through the
Washington Cascade Mountains.
In 1932 Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor
Board.
In 1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles
De Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesk, Morocco.
In 1945 During World War II, German forces in Belgium retreat in the Battle
of the Bulge.
In 1945 Aircraft from the U.S. Navy destroys 41 Japanese ships in the
Battle of South China Sea.
In 1948 In a case involving the University of Oklahoma, the U.S. Supreme
Court rules that states could not discriminate against law-school
applicants on the basis of race.
In 1964 Leftist rebels in Zanzibar begin their successful revolt against the
government.
In 1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson said in his State of the Union address
that the U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until Communist
aggression there ended.
In 1967 The Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 21-10, in the
first Super Bowl.
In 1969 The New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts, 16-7, in Super Bowl III.
In 1971 The situation comedy "All in the Family" premieres on CBS.
In 1976 Mystery writer Agatha Christie dies in Wallingford, England, at age
85.
In 1980 Gold rises past the $700 per ounce mark.
In 1981 Massachusetts's all-time low temperature record of 35 below zero is
recorded at Chester.
In 1983 Health & Human Services Secretary Richard S. Schweiker resigns;
President Reagan nominates former U.S. Rep Margaret Heckler to take
his place.
In 1985 The government of France announces it was sending additional troops
to the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia, the scene of an
increasingly violent ethnic conflict.
In 1986 The space shuttle Columbia is launched with a crew that included
U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson from Florida and the first Hispanic American
in Space, Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
In 1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite arrives in Lebanon to negotiate
the release of hostages and is taken hostage himself.
In 1988 Willie Stargell, a 21-year slugger with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is
elected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
In 1989 President-elect Bush names former Education Secretary William
Bennett to be the first U.S. "drug czar."
In 1990 The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia retrieve an 11-ton
floating science laboratory in a rescue mission that kept the
satellite from plunging to Earth.
In 1991 A deeply divided Congress gives President Bush the authority to wage
war in the Persian Gulf.
In 1992 One day after the surprise resignation of Algeria's president,
the army-backed Algerian government cancels parliamentary elections
In 1994 President Clinton, en route to Russia, worjed out an agreement with
the Ukraine to eliminate the country's nuclear arsenal, the
third-largest in the world.
In 1995 An American soldier is killed and another is wounded during a
shootout with a former Haitian army officer in Port-Au-Prince,
Haiti.
In 1995 Qubilah Bahiyah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, is arrested on
charges she tried to hire a hitman to kill Louis Farrakhan.
In 1996 Chechen fighters holding more than 100 hostages in the Russian
village of Pervomayskaya free about a dozen of their captives and
pledged to release the rest if 4 Russian officials took their place.
In 1998 19 European nations agree to prohibit human cloning.
In 1998 Linda Tripp provides Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with
taped conversations between herself and former White House intern
Monica Lewinsky.
In 1999 The U.S. Supreme Court limits state regulation of voter initiatives,
striking down several methods used by Colorado.
In 1999 Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball is sold at auction in New York for
$3 million to an anonymous bidder.
In 2002 Michelle Kwan wins her fifth successive U.S. Figure Skating
Championships crown and sixth overall.
In 2002 Former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance dies at age 84.
In 2003 Steve Case announced he was stepping down as chairman of AOL Time
Warner, the conglomerate he'd helped to create.
In 2004 President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox forge an agreement
on immigration and Iraq, while meeting in Monterrey.
In 2005 A NASA spacecraft, Deep Impact, blasts off to smash a hole in a
comet. (The probe smashed into Comet Tempel 1 on July 3.)
In 2016 National Handwriting Day.
In 2016 Volunteer Fireman Day.
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