1790
\nThe Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, in New York City.<\/p>\n
1862
\nJulia Ward Howe’s poem “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was published in the Atlantic Monthly.<\/p>\n
1884
\nThe first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary A\u2013Ant, was published.<\/p>\n
1946
\nA press conference announced the first electronic digital computer, ENIAC, was held at the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
1960
\nFour black college students began a series of sit-ins at a white-only lunch counter in Woolworth\u2019s, Greensboro, N.C.<\/p>\n
1968
\nDuring the Vietnam War, a Viet Cong officer was executed with a pistol shot to the head by Saigon’s police chief and the image captured in a famous news photograph.<\/p>\n
1979
\nAyatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran after 15 years of exile.<\/p>\n
2003
\nThe space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew were lost.<\/p>\n
2004
\nJanet Jackson’s famous “wardrobe malfunction” occurred at Super Bowl XXXVIII.<\/p>\n
2009
\nJohanna Sigurdardottir takes office as Iceland’s first female prime minister.<\/p>\n
Langston Hughes
\n1902\u20131967, American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.<\/p>\n
Edward Coke
\njurist (1552)<\/p>\n
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
\nU.S. senator (1878)<\/p>\n
John Ford
\nfilm director (1894)<\/p>\n
Clark Gable
\nactor (1901)<\/p>\n
S.J. Perelman
\ncomic writer (1904)<\/p>\n
Dame Muriel Spark
\nnovelist (1918)<\/p>\n
Boris Yeltsin
\nRussian president (1931)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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