1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1775 – Louisa Adams, English-born American wife of John Quincy Adams, 6th First Lady of the United States (d. 1852) is born.
1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882) is born.
1809 – Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865) is born.
1855 – Michigan State University is established.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1934 – Bill Russell, American basketball player, Boston Celtics, and coach is born.
1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1947 – Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1949 – Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian educator, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906) dies.
1956 – Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host is born.
1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
1971 – James Cash Penney, American businessman, founded J. C. Penney (b. 1875) dies.
1984 – Brad Keselowski, American race car driver is born.
1993 – Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2000 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist, created Peanuts (b. 1922) dies.
2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
2014 – Sid Caesar, American actor and singer (b. 1922) dies.
2014 – A massive winter storm across states in the southern United States causes widespread power outages, travel disruptions and dangerous road conditions.
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