1807 – US Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted.
1846 – Texas state government formally installed in Austin.
1881 – Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
1884 – Enigma outbreak of tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people.
1906 – Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg’s.
1913 – 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box.
1914 – Four-year-old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles away in most famous ‘child in the post’ instance.
1934 – US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months.
1942 – FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans.
1945 – United States Marines raise the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
1953 – William Inge’s “Picnic” premieres in NYC.
1963 – USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba.
1968 – “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” debuts on NET (now PBS)
1973 – “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
1978 – 20th Daytona 500: Bobby Allison wins (159.73 MPH)
1983 – Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million.
1985 – Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola.
1995 – 37th Daytona 500: Sterling Marlin wins (141.71 MPH)
2002 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2008 – Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video formatting, ending the format war between it and Sony’s Blu-Ray Disc.
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