1850 - in a three-hour speech to the US Senate, Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union.
1849 - horticulturist Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
1875 - composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.
1911 - the United States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border as a precaution in the wake of the Mexican Revolution.
1926 - the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York and London.
1936 - Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.
1945 - during World War Two, US forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.
1965 - a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff's posse.
1975 - the Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.
1994 - the Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that doesn't require permission from the copyright holder.
2010 - Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Oscar for best director. ...more
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