TODAY IN HISTORY
- Lead Story
- Crazy Horse fights last battle, 1877
- American Revolution
- President George Washington delivers first State of the Union, 1790
- Automotive
- Bugatti brother commits suicide, 1916
- Civil War
- Confederate General James Longstreet born, 1821
- Cold War
- Chinese leader Zhou Enlai dies, 1976
- Crime
- Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords injured in shooting rampage, 2011
- Disaster
- Cargo plane crashes into crowded market, 1996
- General Interest
- Astronomer Galileo dies in Italy, 1642
- The Battle of New Orleans, 1815
- Congress expands suffrage in nation's capital, 1867
- Allies retreat from Gallipoli, 1916
- Wilson announces his 14 Points, 1918
- Mona Lisa exhibited in Washington, 1962
- Hollywood
- William Randolph Hearst stops Citizen Kane ads, 1941
- Literary
- Ragtime wins the National Book Critics Circle Award, 1976
- Music
- Elvis Presley receives his first guitar, 1946
- Old West
- Crazy Horse fights his final battle, 1877
- Presidential
- Jackson leads troops to victory at New Orleans, 1815
- Wilson delivers Fourteen Points speech, 1918
- Sports
- Music City Miracle, 2000
- Vietnam War
- Operation Cedar Falls is launched, 1967
- Peace talks resume in Paris, 1973
- World War I
- Wilson outlines the Fourteen Points, 1917
- World War II
- Mussolini questions Hitler's plans, 1940
