- 1790 – President George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
- 1815 – The forces of Gen. Andrew Jackson decisively defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the closing engagement of the War of 1812.
- 1828 – The Democratic Party is organized.
- 1867 – Congress approves legislation allowing African Americans to vote in the District of Columbia.
- 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson announces his “Fourteen Points” for the aftermath of World War I.
- 1925 – The All-Woman Supreme Court met for the first time in Texas, the first all-female supreme court in the history of the U.S.
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty.”
- 1987 – Kay Orr was inaugurated in Nebraska as the nation’s first woman Republican governor.
- 1992 – During a state visit to Tokyo, President George H.W. Bush vomited on the lap of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa after coming down with the flu.
- 2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
- 2011 – Six people were killed and 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were injured when a gunman opened fire at a political meeting in Arizona.
