1681 – English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania.
1789 – 1st US Congress meets and declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps).
1791 – President Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session.
1793 – Washington’s 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words).
1829 – Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball.
1841 – Longest US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison.
1901 – 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-National Intelligencer).
1924 – “Happy Birthday To You” published by Claydon Sunny.
1933 – Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President, pledges to pull US out of the Depression, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
1944 – 1st US bombing of Berlin.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People’s Campaign.
1976 – 2nd People’s Choice Awards: John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Carol Burnett win (TV).
1984 – Pee Wee Reese and Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
1985 – Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA.
1993 – 1st ESPY Awards: Michael Jordan, Monica Seles win.
1994 – Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit.
1997 – US President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
2005 – United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
2016 – Ben Carson announces he is dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination race.
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