1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1923 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (d. 2003) is born.
1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854) dies.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
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