1816 – 2nd Bank of US chartered
1827 – George Canning becomes British Prime Minister upon the resignation of Robert Jenkinson, lives to serve only 119 days
1887 – US President Abraham Lincoln’s re-buried with his wife in Springfield, Illinois
1919 – Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos
1925 – Tsaritsyn renamed Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1939 – Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1968 – 40th Academy Awards: “In the Heat of the Night”, Rod Steiger and Katherine Hepburn win
1978 – Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
1984 – US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
2012 – Rick Santorum suspends his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination making Mitt Romney the overwhelming favourite