On this date

In 1887,

the U.S. Senate approved an agreement to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.

In 1936,

Britain’s King George V died after his physician injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death; the king was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne 11 months later to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

In 1937,

Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated for a second term as president (the date of the presidential inaugural was moved to Jan. 20 this year; from 1793 to 1933, inaugurations had been held on March 4).

In 1968,

in what was billed as “The Game of the Century,” No. 2 ranked Houston defeated top-ranked UCLA 71-69 at the Houston Astrodome in the first prime-time national telecast of a college basketball game.

In 1981,

Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

In 1993,

actress Audrey Hepburn died in Switzerland at age 63.

In 2001, George Walker Bush became America’s 43rd president after one of the most turbulent elections in U.S. history.

Ten years ago:

“Breaking Bad,” a cable TV crime drama starring Bryan Cranston as a schoolteacherturned-meth dealer, debuted on American Movie Classics.

Five years ago:

The San Francisco 49ers rebounded from a 17-0 deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24 in the NFC championship game.

One year ago:

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, pledging emphatically to empower America’s “forgotten men and women.” Protesters registered their rage against the new president in a confrontation with police just blocks from the inaugural parade.