British and French defeated Russia in the Crimean War, 1854
Fred MacMurray, actor, died, 1991
First grandmother elected to US Congress (M.H. Fenwick), 1974
First commercial TV broadcast, 1930
Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Mormon church, died, 1985
Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, died, 1989
The New York Weekly Journal began publication (John Peter Zenger), 1733
James Clerk Maxwell, British physicist, died, 1879
First American to win Nobel Prize for Literature (Sinclair Lewis), 1930
McLellan removed from command of Union forces, 1862
Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist (“Li’l Abner”), died, 1979
Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected for third term, 1940
Guy Fawkes’ Plot (Gunpowder plot to kill the British King and Parliament), 1605
Susan B. Anthony arrested for attempting to vote, 1872