| 1798 | | The first serious fist fight occurs in Congress. |
| 1804 | | New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery. |
| 1862 | | Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches a major assault on Fort Donelson, Tenn. |
| 1869 | |
Charges of treason against Jefferson Davis are
dropped. |
| 1898 | |
The U.S. battleship Maine blows up in
Havana Harbor, killing 268 sailors and bringing hordes of Western cowboys
and gunfighters rushing to enlist in the Spanish-American. |
| 1900 | | The British threaten to use natives in the Boer War fight. |
| 1925 | | The London Zoo announces it will install lights to cheer up fogged-in animals. |
| 1934 | | U.S. Congress passes the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act, allotting new funds for Federal Emergency Relief Administration. |
| 1940 | | Hitler orders that all British merchant ships will be considered warships. |
| 1942 | | British forces in Singapore surrender to Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita. |
| 1943 | | The Germans break the American Army's lines at the Fanid-Sened Sector in Tunisia, North Africa. |
| 1944 | | American bombers attack the Abbey of Monte Cassino in an effort to neutralize it as a German observation post in central Italy. |
| 1946 | | Royal Canadian mounted police arrest 22 as Soviet spies. |
| 1950 | | Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung sign a mutual defense treaty in Moscow. |
| 1957 | | Andrei Gromyko replaces Dmitri T. Shepilov as the Soviet Foreign Minister. |
| 1961 | | Eighteen members of the U.S. figure skating team are lost in an airplane crash in Belgium. |
| 1965 | | Canada's maple leaf flag is raised for the first time. |
| 1967 | |
Thirteen U.S. helicopters are shot down in one
day in Vietnam |
| 1974 | | U.S. gas stations threaten to close because of federal fuel policies. |
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