1846 – Led by Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long westward exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. to Utah.
1869 – The Territory of Wyoming granted women the right to vote.
1898 – Spain signed a treaty officially ending the Spanish-American War. It gave Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States.
1948 – The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1964 – The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize.
