Supreme Court of the United States first met, 1790.
Louis S. St. Laurent, second French Canadian prime minister of Canada, born 1882.
Langston Hughes, African American author, born 1902.
Ground-Hog Day.
Talleyrand, French statesman, born 1754.
By the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico gave New Mexico and California to the United States, 1848.
Felix Mendelssohn, German composer, born 1809.
Horace Greeley, American publisher, born 1811.

Confederate States of America organized, 1861.
Emilio Aguinaldo began Philippine Rebellion against the United States, 1899.
Charles A. Lindbergh, American aviator, born 1902.
Sir Robert Peel, British statesman, born 1788.
Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist, born 1837.

Queen Anne of England, born 1665.
Aaron Burr, American political leader, born 1756.
Massachusetts ratified the U.S. Constitution, 1788.
Charles Dickens, British novelist, born 1812.
Sinclair Lewis, Nobel Prize-winning American novelist, born 1885.

Mary, Queen of Scots, executed in 1587.
College of William and Mary, second oldest college in the United States, chartered in 1693.
John Ruskin, English essayist and critic, born 1819.
William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. president, born 1773.


Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years' War, 1763.
Charles Lamb, English essayist and critic, born 1775.

National Foundation Day, Japan.
Thomas A. Edison, American inventor, born 1847.

Lady Jane Grey, the \"nine-day queen\" of England, executed 1554.
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish patriot, born 1746.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president, born 1809.
Grant Wood, American painter, born 1891.


Valentine's Day.
Oregon became the 33rd U.S. state, 1859.
John Barrymore, American actor, born 1882.
Galileo, Italian astronomer and physicist, born 1564.
Cyrus McCormick, American inventor, born 1809.
Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage leader, born 1820.
Henry Adams, American historian, born 1838.


Thomas Robert Malthus, British economist, born 1766.


Democracy Day, Nepal.
Mary I, first reigning queen of England, born 1516.
Wendell Willkie, American political leader, born 1892.
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, born 1473.
David Garrick, English actor, born 1717.
Thomas A. Edison patented the phonograph, 1878.
John H. Glenn, Jr., astronaut, became the first American to orbit the earth, 1962.


Shaheed Dibash (Martyrs' Day), Bangladesh.


George Washington, first U.S. president, born 1732.
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, born 1788.
James Russell Lowell, American poet, born 1819.
Samuel Pepys, English diarist, born 1633.
George Frideric Handel, composer, born in Germany in 1685.
W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights leader, historian, and sociologist, born 1868.
Winslow Homer, American painter, born 1836.


National Day, Kuwait.
Jose de San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru, born 1778.
Enrico Caruso, Italian singer, born 1873.
Victor Hugo, French poet and novelist, born 1802.
Napoleon escaped from the island of Elba, 1815.
William Frederick Cody (better known as \"Buffalo Bill\"), American frontiersman, born 1846.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, born 1807.
Marian Anderson, American singer, born 1897.

Marquis de Montcalm, French commander in Quebec, born 1712. 
Vincent Massey took the oath as the first Canadian-born governor general of Canada, 1952.

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer, born 1792.


