1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1872 – 34th Grand National: John Page wins his second GN aboard 20/1 shot Casse Tete
1944 – General Eisenhower postpones invasion of the south of France until after Normandy
1948 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Patty Berg wins her 4th Titleholders title by 1 stroke ahead of Babe Zaharias and Peggy Kirk
1990 – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens at Eugene O’Neill Theater NYC for 149 performances
2014 – Canadian freestyle skier (moguls) and two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 26
2018 – China announces greater controls over the media, including merging state-run radio and television broadcasters into a single conglomerate called “Voice of China”
2018 – Suicide bomber kills 31 in crowd celebrating Persian New Year in Kabul, Afghanistan
2019 – Governor of Missouri Mike Parson declares a state of emergency as flooding from Nebraska and Iowa flows downstream into the state
2019 – A huge blast from a chemical factory in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in eastern China is so big it registers as an earthquake, kills 78 people and injuries 617