1152 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans .
1461 - King Henry VI of England is deposed.
1665 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War .
1681 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania .
1789 - In New York City , the first United States Congress meets and declares the new Constitution of the United States is in effect.
1791 - Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state .
1793 - George Washington is inaugurated for a second term as the 1st President of the United States .
1797 - John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States .
1801 - Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the 3rd President of the United States .
1805 - Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1809 - James Madison is inaugurated as the 4th President of the United States .
1813 - James Madison is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1817 - James Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th President of the United States .
1825 - John Quincy Adams is inaugurated as the 6th President of the United States .
1829 - Andrew Jackson is inaugurated as the 7th President of the United States .
1833 - Andrew Jackson is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1837 - Martin Van Buren is inaugurated as the 8th President of the United States .
1837 - Chicago, Illinois is granted a city charter by Illinois .
1841 - William Henry Harrison is inaugurated as the 9th President of the United States .
1845 - James Knox Polk is inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States .
1849 - David Rice Atchison , President pro tempore of the United States Senate , is believed by some to have served as President of the United States for one day.
1853 - Franklin Pierce is inaugurated as the 14th President of the United States .
1857 - James Buchanan is inaugurated as the 15th President of the United States .
1861 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States .
1861 - The "Stars and Bars " is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America .
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1869 - Ulysses S. Grant is inaugurated as the 18th President of the United States .
1873 - Ulysses S. Grant is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1877 - Emile Berliner invents the microphone .
1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's ballet Swan Lake[?] 1881 - James A. Garfield is inaugurated as the 20th President of the United States .
1881 - A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes story, begins.
1885 - Grover Cleveland is inaugurated as the 22nd President of the United States .
1889 - Benjamin Harrison is inaugurated as the 23rd President of the United States .
1893 - Grover Cleveland (same as above) is inaugurated as the 24th President of the United States .
1897 - William McKinley is inaugurated as the 25th President of the United States .
1901 - William McKinley is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States .
1902 - In Chicago, Illinois , the American Automobile Association[?] is established.
1904 - Russo-Japanese War : Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
1905 - Theodore Roosevelt is re-inaugurated as the 26th President of the United States .
1909 - William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th President of the United States .
1913 - Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th President of the United States .
1913 - The United States Department of Commerce and United States Department of Labor are established by splitting the duties of the 10-year-old Dept. of Commerce and Labor.
1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives .
1921 - Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States .
1925 - Calvin Coolidge is re-inaugurated as the 30th President of the United States , the first inauguration broadcasted on radio .
1929 - Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the 31st President of the United States .
1933 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States . In reference to the Great Depression , Roosevelt gives his "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" inauguration speech.
1933 - Frances Perkins[?] becomes United States Secretary of Labor , first female member of the United States Cabinet
1944 - In Ossining, New York[?] , Louis Buchalter[?] , the leader of 1930s crime syndicate Murder, Inc. , is executed at Sing Sing Prison[?] .
1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital[?] in Boston announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1963 - In Paris six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle .
1966 - John Lennon says, "We (The Beatles ) are more popular than Jesus " which later sparked controversy in the United States .
1975 - Charlie Chaplin is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of England .
1977 - An earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1989 - Time, Inc[?] . and Warner Communications[?] announce plans for a merger forming Time-Warner .
1993 - Authorities announce the capture of suspected World Trade Center bombing conspirator Mohammad Salameh[?] .
1994 - Four terrorists are convicted for their roles in the World Trade Center bombing which killed six and injured more than a thousand.
1997 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on human cloning .
1998 - Gay rights : The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
1999 - Monica Lewinsky 's book detailing her affair with Bill Clinton goes on sale in the United States
1999 - In a military court, Captain Richard Ashby[?] of the United States Marines is acquitted of the charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in the Italian Alps[?] when his low-flying jet hit a gondola[?] cable.
1394 - Prince Henry the Navigator , explorer (+ 1460 ).
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer (+ 1741 ).
1768 - August Friedrich Wilhelm Holtzhausen[?] , engineer (+ 1827 ).
1793 - Karl Lachmann , philologist (+ 1851 ).
1876 - Léon-Paul Fargue , poet (+ 1947 )
1888 - Knute Rockne , American football star, coach (+ 1931 )
1897 - Lefty O'Doul[?] , baseball star, restauranteur (+ 1969 )
1901 - Charles Goren[?] , bridge expert
1909 - Harry Helmsley[?] , real estate entrepreneur (+ 1997 )
1913 - John Garfield , actor (+ 1952 )
1916 - Hans Eysenck , psychologist (+ 1997 ).
1925 - Paul Mauriat[?] , musician
1928 - Alan Sillitoe , writer
1932 - Miriam Makeba[?] , singer
1934 - Janez Strnad , Slovene physicist.
1936 - Jim Clark , racing driver (+ 1968 )
1941 - Adrian Lyne[?] , director
1951 - Kenny Dalglish footballer and football manager
1951 - Chris Rea[?] , British singer and musician
1960 - Mykelti Williamson[?] , actor
1961 - Ray Mancini , boxer
1967 - Evan Dando[?] , musician
1968 - Patsy Kensit[?] , actress
1982 - Matthias Dix[?] , German story writer.
1619 - Anne of Denmark , consort of James I of England
1852 - Nikolai Gogol , writer
1868 - Jesse Chisholm[?] , Old West pioneer
1963 - William Carlos Williams , writer
1994 - John Candy , comedian and actor
1996 - Minnie Pearl[?] , country music performer
1999 - Harry Blackmun[?] , associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
1999 - Karel van het Reve , Dutch writer, aged 77
2001 - Glenn Hughes -- leather dude Popular Music group The Village People
2001 - Harold Stassen , politician
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