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Events

• Funds were approved to purchase Thomas Jefferson’s library in order to rebuild the Library of Congress, which had been destroyed by the British during the War of 1812– 1815
• Yerba Buena, a U.S. town of 200 people, was renamed San Francisco– 1847
• Great Britain and Japan signed the Anglo-Japanese Alliance– 1902
• The Original Dixieland Jazz Band released Darktown Strutters’ Ball, the first commercial jazz recording– 1917
• Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany– 1933
• The Lone Ranger made its radio debut– 1933
• Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated– 1948
• 30 millionth customer added to U.S. electrical utilities– 1954
• President Kennedy and Aleksei I. Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia, principal Russian newspaper, held conversations at the White House– 1962
• The Beatles gave their last public performance on the roof of their Apple Corps headquarters– 1969
• Pakistan became independent of Great Britain– 1972
• 31-lb. 12-oz. bluefish caught, Hatteras, North Carolina– 1972
• Andrew Young was sworn in as the first African American ambassador to the United Nations– 1977
• David Bradley, the man who wrote the computer code CtrlAltDelete (forces computers to restart when they will no longer follow other commands), retired from IBM after 28.5 years with the company– 2004
• A buffalo escaped from an auction in South Dakota and ended up in a Grand Rapids department store dressing room where it spent a couple of hours staring into a mirror– 2005