1412 Joan of Arc (born) (died1431)
1537 Alessandro de’ Medici (died), Duke of Florence (born 1510)
1540 King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
1714 Percivall Pott (born), English physician (died 1788)
1838 Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (the forerunner of Morse code).
1852 Louis Braille (died), French educator, invented braille (born 1809)
1872 Alexander Scriabin (born), Russian pianist and composer (died 1915)
1878 Carl Sandburg (born), American poet and historian (died 1967)
1880 Tom Mix (born), American actor (died 1940)
1884 Gregor Johann Mendel (died), Austrian geneticist (born 1822)
1893 The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress and signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1907 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
1919 Theodore Roosevelt (died), American politician, 26th President of the United States (born 1858)
1920 John Maynard Smith (born), English biologist (died 2004)
1921 Devil Anse Hatfield (died), American Patriarch of the Hatfield clan of the Hatfield/McCoy feud (born 1839)
1924 Earl Scruggs (born), American banjo player (Flatt and Scruggs) (died 2012)
1925 John DeLorean (born), American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (died 2005)
1929 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India’s poorest and sick people.
1930 The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
1931 Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
1931 E. L. Doctorow (born), American author
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
1946 Syd Barrett (born), English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd and Stars) (died 2006)
1947 Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1953 Malcolm Young (born), Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (AC/DC and Marcus Hook Roll Band)
1960 National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami, Florida.
1974 In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1993 Dizzy Gillespie (died), American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (born 1917)
1994 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan.
1995 A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
2005 American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
2005 A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
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