William Shirer 1904 - Journalist, author ("The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "Gandhi: A Memoir")
- 1813 - The first U.S. raw cotton-to-cloth mill was founded in Waltham, MA.
- 1836 - In San Antonio, TX, the siege of the Alamo began.
- 1861 - U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take his office after an assassination attempt in Baltimore.
- 1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum.
- 1904 - The U.S. acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million.
- 1991 - During the Persian Gulf War, ground forces crossed the border of Saudi Arabia into the country of Iraq. Less than four days later the war was over due to the surrender or withdraw of Iraqi forces.
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