1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.
1865 Robert E. Lee was named general-in-chief of the Confederate armies.
1919 Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, who broke the sport's color barrier in 1947, was born in Cairo, Ga.
1958 The United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I.
1971 Astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blasted off aboard Apollo 14 on the third successful manned mission to the moon.
1990 McDonald's Corp. opened its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow.
2000 An Alaska Airlines jet plunged into the ocean off Southern California on a flight from Mexico to San Francisco, killing all 88 people on board.
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