1806 – Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (d. 1863) is born.
1831 – Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (d. 1901) is born.
1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846 dies.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
1931 – Herb Kelleher, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Southwest Airlines is born.
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
1947 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts is born.
1987 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach, Ohio State University (b. 1913) dies.
1993 – The 1993 Storm of the Century: Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
1993 – Janet Reno is sworn in as the United States' first female attorney general.
2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history.
2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
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