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In 1756, America’s third vice president, Aaron Burr, was born in Newark, N.J.
In 1778 the United States
won official recognition from France with the signing of treaties in Paris.
In 1788 Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1895 baseball legend George Herman “Babe” Ruth was born in Baltimore.
In 1911 Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president, was born in Tampico.
In 1931 Elmore Rual Torn Jr., who grew up to become actor Rip Torn, was born in Temple, Texas.
In 1933 the Constitution’s
20th Amendment took effect, designating Jan. 20 as the date of presidential inaugurations and moving the start of congressional terms from March to January.
In 1943 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower was named commander in chief of Allied forces in North Africa during World War II.
In 1952 Britain’s King George VI died; he was succeeded as reigning monarch by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
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In 1956 Autherine Lucy, the first black student admitted to the University of Alabama, was expelled after she accused school officials of conspiring in riots that marred her court-ordered enrollment five days earlier.
In 1968 the Winter Olympic Games were opened in Grenoble, France, by French President Charles de Gaulle.
In 1971 the Apollo 14 astronauts prepared to head back to Earth after a 33-hour stay on the moon.
In 1978 a tentative settlement was reached to end a 63-day coal strike in Appalachia and the Midwest.
In 1980 Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr denounced the militants holding 52 Americans hostage in Tehran.
In 1988 Michael Jordan soared from the free-throw line to score a perfect 50 on his final jam to win the NBA Slam Dunk Contest over Dominique Wilkins at the Chicago Stadium.In 1992 16 people were killed when a C-130 military transport plane crashed in Evansville, Ind.
In 1993 tennis Hall of Famer and human-rights advocate Arthur Ashe died of AIDS in New York; he was 49.
In 1995 the space shuttle Discovery flew to within 37 feet of the Russian space station Mir in the first rendezvous of its kind in two decades.
In 1998 President Bill Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Also in 1998 Carl Wilson, a founding member of The Beach Boys, died in Los Angeles; he was 51.
In 2000 former first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her successful candidacy to the U.S. Senate from New York.
In 2001 Ariel Sharon was elected Israeli prime minister in a landslide win over Ehud Barak.
In 2003 ABC’s “20/20” aired a British documentary on Michael Jackson in which the King of Pop revealed he sometimes let children sleep in his bed.
In 2004 an explosion ripped through a Moscow subway car during rush hour, killing 41 people.
In 2005 the New England Patriots won their third Super Bowl in four years, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21.
In 2006 President George W. Bush submitted a $2.77 trillion budget blueprint for fiscal 2007. Also in 2006 Stephen Harper was sworn in as Canada’s 22nd prime minister.
In 2011 powered by quarterback (and game MVP) Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in Super Bowl XLV.
In 2013 toy maker Hasbro Inc. announced that Monopoly fans had voted online to add a cat token to the board game, replacing the iron.
In 2016 a magnitude 6.4 earthquake killed at least 36 people in Taiwan; most died when a 17-story building in the southern city of Tainan collapsed, burying hundreds in the rubble.
In 2018 thousands witnessed SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket — at the time the largest in use — blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on its first test flight, carrying a red sports car belonging to SpaceX founder Elon Musk.