1838 Morse demonstrates telegraph
- 1777 Washington sets up winter quarters in Morristown
- 1925 Auto industry maverick John DeLorean born
- 1827 Confederate General John Calvin Brown born
- 1958 Soviet Union announces troop reduction
- 1994 Skater Nancy Kerrigan attacked
- 1996 Blizzard of 1996 begins
- 1066 Harold II crowned king of England
- 1912 New Mexico joins the Union
- 1925 Nurmi breaks two world records
- 2001 Congress certifies Bush winner of 2000 elections
- 2008 Disney-MGM Studios becomes Disney’s Hollywood Studios
- 1977 John Gardner wins National Book Critics Circle Award
- 1975 Two thousand Led Zeppelin fans trash the Boston Garden
- 1798 Mountain man Jedediah Smith is born
- 1759 Two future presidents marry respective sweethearts
- 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks of Four Freedoms
- 1994 Nancy Kerrigan attacked
- 1971 Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up
- 1975 Phuoc Binh falls to the North Vietnamese
- 1919 Theodore Roosevelt dies
- 1942 Roosevelt commits to biggest arms buildup in U.S. history
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