1867 – Congress passes 2nd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson’s veto
1880 – Flour rolling mill patent is issued to John Stevens of Wisconsin
1919 – Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, designated as the first autonomous republic of Soviet Russia
1972 – Geoge Harrison and Friends’ “The Concert for Bangladesh” concert film, directed by Saul Swimmer released in the US
1998 – 70th Academy Awards: “Titanic”, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt win
2016 – GPR investigation of Shakespeare’s tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford concludes the Bard’s skull probably has been stolen
2019 – More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters
2021 – Brazil’s daily COVID-19 death toll passes 3,000 (3,251) for the first time (298,676 total deaths reported) as country’s Supreme Court blocks President Jair Bolsonaro overturning local restrictions