1862 - during the Civil War, the ironclads "Monitor" and "Virginia" (formerly "Merrimac") clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1796 - the future emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, married Josephine de Beauharnais. (The couple divorced in 1809.)
1916 - Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico, killing more than a dozen people.
1933 - Congress, called into special session by President Roosevelt, began its "hundred days" of enacting New Deal legislation.
1945 - during World War Two, US B-29 bombers launched incendiary bomb attacks against Japan.
1954 - CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now."
1975 - work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline.
1977 - about a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later.
1989 - the Senate rejected President Bush's nomination of John Tower to be defense secretary by a vote of 53-to-47.
1996 - comedian George Burns died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 100.
1997 - gangsta rapper The Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; he was 24. ...more
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