Hyman Rickover 1900
- 1870 - Kappa Alpha Theta, the first women’s sorority, was founded at Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in Greencastle, IN.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
- 1926 - John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television.
- 1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
- 1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
- 1981 - U.S. President Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
- 1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
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