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- 1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
- 1899 – At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an electric chair.
- 1914 – In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
- 1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- 1928 – Fred Rogers, host of the long running children's television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, is born.
- 1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago, an early proponent of modern art in the United States, hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso.
- 1942 – In Terowie, South Australia, General Douglas MacArthur makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
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Events
- 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
- 1899 - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place is sentenced to become the first woman executed in an electric chair.
- 1914 - In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
- 1922 - The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
- 1933 - Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
- 1942 - World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
- 1948 - With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
- 1952 - The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
- 1985 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
- 1987 - The Food and Drug Administration approves anti-AIDS drug AZT.
- 1999 - Legoland California opens in Carlsbad, California.
- 2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead.
- 2003 - 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.