1770 Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France.
1863 At the Battle of Champion's Hill, Union General Ulysess S. Grant repulses the Confederates, driving them into Vicksburg.
1866 The U.S. Congress authorized the first 5-cent piece to be minted.
1868 President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during Senate impeachment, by one vote, cast by Edmund G. Ross.
1879 The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England sets up the Afghan state.
1881 In Germany, the first electric tram for the public started service.
1888 The first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner.
1888 The capitol of Texas was dedicated in Austin.
1910 The U.S. Bureau of Mines was authorized by the U.S. Congress.
1914 The American Horseshoe Pitchers Association (AHPA) was formed in Kansas City, Kansas.
1920 Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome.
1929 1st Academy Awards: "Wings", Emil Jannings & Janet Gaynor win
1939 The Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League.
1943 Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs
1946 Jack Mullin showed the world the first magnetic tape recorder.
1951 Chinese Communist Forces launch second phase of the Chinese Spring Offensive in the Korean War and gain up to 20 miles of territory.
1960 A Big Four summit in Paris collapses because of the American U-2 spy plane affair.
1960 Theodore Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratory in California, demonstrated the first working laser.
1963 After 22 Earth orbits, Gordon Cooper returns to Earth, ending the last mission of Project Mercury.
1965 Spaghetti-O's were sold for the first time.
1969 Venus 5, a Russian spacecraft, landed on the planet Venus.
1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1985 Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.
1988 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police do not have to have a search warrant to search discarded garbage.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
2000 U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated to run for U.S. Senator in New York. She was the first U.S. first lady to run for public office.
2002 The movie "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" opened in theaters in the U.S.
2005 Sony Corp. unveiled three styles of its new PlayStation 3 video game machine.
2013 Human stem cells are successfully cloned
2014 Filming began for "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" began in Abu Dhabi.
