1835 – Siwinowe Kesibwi (The Shawnee Sun) was issued as the first Indian language monthly publication in the United States.
1839 – William S. Otis of Philadelphia, PA received a patent for the steam shovel.
1866 – The Capitol in Washington, D.C., displayed an American flag made entirely of American bunting for the first time.
1868 – The U.S. House of Representative voted on 11 articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson.
1925 – A thermite reaction was used for the first time to break up an ice jam. The 250,000-ton jam had clogged the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, NY.
1938 – The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made in Arlington, NJ. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially.
1945 – American forces liberated the Philippine capital, Manila, from the control of the Japanese empire in World War II.
1946 – Juan Domingo Peron was elected president of Argentina.
1969 – Johnny Cash recorded his second live prison performance; this one at San Quentin. The previous year he’d held a concert at Folsom Prison.
1983 – The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1100 mark for the first time, ending at 1121.81.
1988 – In the case of Hustler Magazine v. Jerry Falwell, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a $200,000 award that Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler magazine and its publisher Larry Flynt for printing a parody of Falwell’s first sexual experience.
1989 – Angered by Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses, Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced the author to death and offered a one to three-million-dollar bounty to anyone who killed him.
1996 – Cuba shot down two small planes operated by a Cuban-American group over the waters north of Havana. The two planes with four people on board were twin-engine Cessna aircraft operated by the group ‘Brothers to the Rescue,’ a Miami-based group of Cuban exiles funded by private donations.
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