- 1412 – Joan of Arc is born.
- 1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
- 1838 – Samuel Morse demonstrates the telegraph.
- 1907 – Dr. Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center, Casa Dei Bambini, in Rome, Italy.
- 1912 – New Mexico joins the Union as the 47th state.
- 1919 – Theodore Roosevelt dies.
- 1925 – John DeLorean is born.
- 1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to Congress on the “Four Freedoms” – freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
- 1945 – George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce.
- 1975 – “Wheel of Fortune” premieres.
- 2001 – Al Gore presides over a joint session of Congress that certifies George W. Bush the winner of the 2000 presidential election.
