1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office after an assassination plot was foiled in Baltimore.
1945 U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi and raised the American flag. The moment was captured in a Pulitzer Prize winning photo by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal.
1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knighthrows a chair durring a game. In his defense I have seen the game, the refs were awful that game.
1991 President George H.W. Bush announced that the allied ground offensive against Iraqi forces had begun.
1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they had cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named Dolly.
1997 A Palestinian man opened fire on the observation deck of New York City's Empire State Building, killing one person and wounding six before shooting himself to death.
1999 A jury in Jasper, Texas, convicted white supremacist John William King of murder in the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr.
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