J.S. Fletcher, author (“Middle Temple Murder”), died, 1935
Luna 9 (USSR) launched, 1966
Long Island Railway resumed service after a two week strike, 1987
Scotch tape first sold, 1928
Germany announced a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, 1917
Hewlett-Packard founded, 1939
“The Three Sisters” by Anton Chekhov premiered in Moscow, 1901
Apollo 14 (US) launched, 1971
Eddie D. Slovik executed for desertion (only since Civil War), 1945
OAS voted to exclude Cuba, 1962
Franklin Roosevelt devalued the US dollar in relation to gold, 1934
Russia expelled Leon Trotsky, 1929
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi cremated on the banks of the Ganges, 1948
Western US railroads blocked by snow, 1855
Harry Truman announced he had ordered hydrogen bomb development, 1950
Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s opened, 1990
Alan Alexander Milne, British author (“Winnie the Pooh”), died, 1956
Samuel Goldwyn (Samuel Goldfish), movie producer, died, 1974
First TV daytime soap opera broadcast (“These Are My Children”), 1949
Explorer 1 (US) (first US artificial satellite) launched, 1958