1872 – 1st US state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)
1900 – Date of events in Australian movie “Picnic at Hanging Rock”
1921 – Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing “Ulysses,” in New York
1936 – US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 – Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of film “Gone With the Wind”
1940 – British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1943 – German offensive against US troops through de Faid-pass, Tunisia begins, starting the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
1945 – World War II: Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden.
1965 – 7th Daytona 500: Fred Lorenzen wins driving for Holman-Moody; race ends on lap 133 due to persistent rain
1993 – Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79