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1751 – James Madison, the 4^th president of the United States, was born in Virginia.

1802 – The U.S. Military Academy, the first military school in the United States, is established by Congress in West Point, NY.

1850 – The novel, The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time.

1871 – The state of Delaware, the first state to enter the union, enacted the first fertilizer law.

1882 – The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.

1926 – American Robert H. Goddard launched the world first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, MA.

1945 – Fighting on Iwo Jima ended, as U.S. forces secured the Pacific island.

1968 – The My Lai massacre occurred in Vietnam, as American soldiers killed between 200 and 500 unarmed civilians.

44 B.C. – In the ancient Roman calendar, Emperor Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman senate by 60 conspirators.

1767 – Andrew Jackson, a first generation Irish-American and the nation’s 7^th president, was born in South Carolina.

1820 – Maine entered the union as the 22^nd state.

1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson held the first open presidential news conference just 11 days after his inauguration.

1917 – Czar Nicholas II, who had ruled Russia since 1894, abdicates the throne under pressure from Petrograd insurgents.

This is actual film footage from Nicholas’ coronation; one of the oldest moving films in existence.

1937 – The first blood bank was established in Chicago, IL at the Cook County Hospital.

1939 – Adolf Hitler’s Nazi army invaded Czechoslovakia.

1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress to urge passage of the Voting Rights Act.

1968 – Construction began on the Eisenhower / Johnson Memorial Tunnel on I-70 in Colorado, some 60 miles west of Denver.  At an altitude of more than 11,000 feet, it was the highest vehicular tunnel in the world.