1794 – The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1855 – Abraham Gesner patents kerosene.
1863 – American Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer.
1866 – Andrew Rankin patents the urinal.
1866 – US Presidents Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment.
1912 – 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C.
1933 – Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized.
1933 – Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett.
1941 – Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years.
1945 – US 20th Army Corps captures Wiesbaden.
1952 – Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records.
1958 – Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later headquarters for Fidel Castro.
1972 – Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky.
1976 – Washington, D.C. underground Metro opens.
1979 – US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can’t randomly stop cars.
1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Marti to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1991 – Scotty Bowman inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a “builder” of the game.
1997 – Martin Luther King’s son meets James Earl Ray, his father’s killer.
2012 – Danielle Steel’s novel “Betrayal” is published.
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