2003 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents)
2000 Frank Wills, often unemployed security guard, he the Democratic National Committee office in the Watergate Building had been burgled in June 1972, dies at 52
1998 First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy
1997 Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69
1996 NFL and Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the Browns' name behind
1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1992 David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1992 President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1989 Gen Manuel Noriega's government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin
1988 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
1986 It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings and paintings of his neighbor Helga Testorf, in Chadds Ford, Pa
1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirmed he had AIDS
1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, held Washington Monument hostage. After 10 hrs, police kill him he had no explosives
1980 Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1978 Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"
1978 Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1977 Paleontologist Elso Barghoorn announces that 3.4-billion-year-old one-celled fossils, the earliest life forms, had been discovered
1975 David Faustino, born in California, actor in I Had 3 Wives,Married With Children
1973 Islanders and Sabres had a penalty free game
1972 Lerrin LaGrow Campy, who had been hit by a pitch, is fined and suspended
1972 "If You Had Wings" opens
1972 Paul McCartney and Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
1969 Kenny "Damn" Kelly, Paterson, New Jersey, rapper, Riff-Judy had a Boyfriend
1965 "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 199 performances
1964 "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 199 performances
1963 Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1962 Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1958 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years)
1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
1956 Dave Dravecky, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, had arm amputated
1950 White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1946 Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor, Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives
1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually
1940 Rod Lauren, rocker, If I Had a Girl
1937 Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist, If I Had a Hammer
1934 U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915
1930 Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in New York City
1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1926 Shortest double header, Yanks lose 6-1 in 72 minutes and lose again 6-2 in 55 minutes to Browns. Yanks had already clinched pennant
1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California She showed up a month later and said she had been kidnapped
1918 United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1912 English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before
1909 Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment
1887 Erwin Schrodinger, Austria, physicist, had a cat
1880 Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
1855 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals, Post Cereals
1849 U.S. had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (President pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is written
1788 Sarah Josepha Hale, author, Mary Had a Little Lamb
1778 Liberty Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British had left
1772 Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
1755 Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
1743 John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton
1713 Junipero Serra, priest had a mission in California
1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
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