1673<\/strong> – The first recorded wine auction took place in London.<\/p>\n 1792<\/strong> – U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.<\/p>\n 1809<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.<\/p>\n 1815<\/strong> – The USS Constitution<\/i>, under Captain Charles Stewart, fought the British ships Cyane<\/i> and Levant<\/i>. The Constitution captures both but lost the Levant<\/i> after encountering a British squadron. The Constitution<\/i> and the Cyane<\/i> returned to New York safely on May 15, 1815. The Cyane<\/i> was purchased and became the USS Cyane<\/i>.<\/p>\n 1839<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n 1872<\/strong> – Luther Crowell received a patent for a machine that manufactured paper bags.<\/p>\n 1872<\/strong> – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.<\/p>\n 1872<\/strong> – Silas Noble and J.P. Cooley patented the toothpick manufacturing machine.<\/p>\n 1873<\/strong> – The University of California got its first Medical School.<\/p>\n 1880<\/strong> – The American Bell Company was incorporated.<\/p>\n 1901<\/strong> – The first territorial legislature of Hawaii convened.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – The motion picture “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” was released starring Rudolph Valentino.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress allowed California to build the Oakland Bay Bridge.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The U.S. House of Representatives completed congressional action on the amendment to repeal Prohibition.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – “Big Week” began as U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers during World War II.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – Emmett L. Ashford became the first black umpire in organized baseball. He was authorized to be a substitute in the Southwestern International League.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – “The African Queen” opened at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – Racing jockey Eddie Arcaro got win number 4,000, as he rode the winner at Santa Anita race track in Southern California.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury<\/i> capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter while in flight.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – Ranger 8<\/i> crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – After 11 years, David Hartman left ABC\u2019s “Good Morning America.”<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City, UT. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Two ten-year-old boys were charged by police in Liverpool, England, in the abduction and death of a toddler. The two boys were later convicted.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in Winter Olympics history when she won the ladies’ figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – FBI Agent Robert Phillip Hanssen was arrested and charged with spying for the Russians for 15 years.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire raced through a train killing at least 370 people and injuring at least 65.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – In West Warwick, RI, 100 people were killed and more than 230 were injured when a fire destroyed the nightclub The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Jack Russel’s Great White. 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