1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1846 – The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1906 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (d. 1997) is born.
1941 – The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1947 – Dan Quayle, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 44th Vice President of the United States is born.
1948 – Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter is born.
1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1969 – Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1977 – A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1987 – Liberace, American singer-songwriter and pianist, (b. 1919) dies.
1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
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