Freedom of Information Day
Birth anniversary of James Madison, fourth president of the United States (1751-1836).
225th birth anniversary of physicist Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854).
In 1957, the “Gumby Show” premiered on TV.
Happy Birthday! Erik Estrada, Jerry Lewis, Chuck Woolery
1802 - The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.
1917 - Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicated his throne.
1926 - Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.
1939 - Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
1978 - Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas. Moro was later murdered by the group.
1989 - The Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee approved large-scale agricultural reforms and elected the party's 100 members to the Congress of People's Deputies.
1993 - In France, ostrich meat was officially declared fit for human consumption.
1994 - Tonya Harding pled guilty in Portland, OR, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating.
1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.
1999 - The 20 members of the European Union's European Commission announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.
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