98 – Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1593 – Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.
1825 – U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears.”
1902 – 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction
1926 – First public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
1942 – -19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland’s coldest day since 1850
1948 – First locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates
1948 – First tape recorder sold
1961 – “Sing Along with Mitch” [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1964 – “Introducing the Beatles” album released in US
1965 – First ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
1967 – Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
1973 – US and Vietnam sign cease-fire
1977 – President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1992 – Presidential candidate Bill Clinton & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair birthdays
Births
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro), (d. 1791)
1832 – Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Halton, Cheshire, author (Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1898)
1908 – Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
1921 – Donna Reed, Denison Iowa, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)
1955 – John G. Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
Deaths
1851 – John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65
1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, dies at 77
2010 – J. D. Salinger, American novelist (b. 1919)
