1862 Some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn., to Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
1959 Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
1968 The nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, Ala.
2002 The operator of a crematory in Noble, Ga., was arrested after dozens of decomposing corpses were found stacked in storage sheds and scattered around the building and surrounding woods.
2005 The NHL canceled what was left of its season after a round of last-gasp negotiations failed to resolve differences over a salary cap - the issue that led to a lockout. THose were the best days of my life!!!
2008 A car plowed into a group of street-racing fans obscured by a cloud of tire smoke on an isolated Maryland highway, killing eight people.
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