1559: Elizabeth I is crowned in Westminster Abbey. Check out Glenda Jackson's portrayal of her in the BBC series Elizabeth R.1759: The British Musem opens.
1777: During the American Revolution, New Connecticut (now called Vermont) declares its independence from England
1782: Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the US Congress to recommend the establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1865: During the American Civil War, Fort Fisher, NC falls to the Union cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1870: The Democratic party is first symbolized by a donkey in a cartoon by Thomas Nast.
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1892: James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.1908: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, is born.
1919: The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people. A tank containing 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, unleashing an immense wave 15 feet high.
1909: Gene Krupa is born.1913: Lloyd Bridges is born.
1927: Phyllis Coates is born. She was best known as the first Lois Lane in the The Adventures of Superman, but she also had a small part in the MST3K episode, Invasion U.S.A.
1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.
1941: Captain Beefheart is born.1943: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
1943: The Pentagon is dedicated.
1957: Mario Van Peebles is born. his father, Melvin directed Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song, widely considered the first blaxploitation movie.
1967: In the first Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
1973: Coleman Francis dies. He is the auteur behind such MST3K classics as Red Zone Cuba, ("I'm Cherokee Jack!"), The Skydivers, and The Beast of Yucca Flats.
1974L Happy Days premieres.
1981: Hill Street Blues premieres.
1983: Meyer Lansky, mobster, dies
1986: HBO and Cinemax start scrambling their signals on Galaxy 1 using the Videocipher II system.1987: Ray Bolger dies. He played the Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz.
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