450th birth anniversary of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
Birth anniversary of intrepid Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922).
Birth anniversary of Miep Gies (1909-2010), Dutch woman who with her husband Jan hid the Otto Frank family from the Nazis in
Birth anniversary of Irena Sendler (1910-2007), Polish social worker who spearheaded a rescue operation of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto in WWII.
Happy Birthday! Matt Groening, Melissa Manchester, Jane Seymour
1758 - Mustard was advertised for the first time in America.
1898 - The USS Maine sank when it exploded in Havana Harbor for unknown reasons. More than 260 crew members were killed.
1903 - Morris and Rose Michtom, Russian immigrants, introduced the first teddy bear in America.
1932 - George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "The Guy Lombardo Show" on CBS radio.
1933 - U.S. President-elect Franklin Roosevelt escaped an assination attempt in Miami. Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in the attack.
1953 - The first American to win the women’s world figure skating championship was 17-year-old Tenley Albright.
1965 - Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard.
1982 - During a storm, the Ocean Ranger, a drilling rig, sank off the coast of Newfoundland. 84 men were killed.
1989 - After nine years of intervention, the Soviet Union announced that the remainder of its troops had left Afghanistan.
2002 - U.S. President George W. Bush approved Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a site for long-term disposal of radioactive nuclear waste.
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