- 1903 – Deadliest theater fire in U.S. history breaks out in Chicago, killing more than 60T
- 1912 – Margaret Wade is born. She won state and regional championships as a semi-professional basketball player, became a high school coach in 1935 and set a lifetime record of 453 wins, 89 losses and 6 ties.
- 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russia’s “Mad Monk” and spiritual advisor to the Romanovs, is murdered.
- 1922 – the USSR is established
- 1936 – 136,000 union workers stage the first United Auto Workers sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan
- 1965 – Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated president of the Philippines.
- 1975 – Tiger Woods is born
