1725 The first known Indian scalping by white men was reported in the New Hampshire colony.
1792 A permanent Postal Service is established when President George Washington signs the Postal Service Act.
1872 The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in New York City.
1952 The African Queen opened at the Capitol Theatre in New York City.
1952 Emmett L. Ashford became the first black umpire in organized baseball. He was authorized to be a substitute in the Southwestern International League.
1962 Aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American astronaut to orbit the earth.
1962 John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the 1st American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.
1965 Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.
1985 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first British leader to address Congress since Winston Churchill, endorsing President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.
1987 A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City. The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.
1991 At the Grammy Awards, Quincy Jones is the big winner with six awards, giving him more career Grammys than any other individual in pop music.
1993 Two ten-year-old boys were charged by police in Liverpool, England, in the abduction and death of a toddler. The two boys were later convicted.
1997 The Galileo spacecraft captures possible evidence of liquid water beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa.
1998 American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.
2001 FBI Agent Robert Phillip Hanssen was arrested and charged with spying for the Russians for 15 years.
2002 In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire raced through a train killing at least 370 people and injuring at least 65.

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