• 1877 Crazy Horse fights last battle

 

• 1790 President George Washington delivers first State of the Union
  

• 1916 Bugatti brother commits suicide
  

• 1821 Confederate General James Longstreet born
  

• 1976 Chinese leader Zhou Enlai dies
  

• 2011 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords injured in shooting rampage
  

• 1996 Cargo plane crashes into crowded market
  

• 1642 Astronomer Galileo dies in Italy
• 1815 The Battle of New Orleans
• 1867 Congress expands suffrage in nation’s capital
• 1916 Allies retreat from Gallipoli
• 1918 Wilson announces his 14 Points
• 1962 Mona Lisa exhibited in Washington
  

• 1941 William Randolph Hearst stops Citizen Kane ads
  

• 1976 Ragtime wins the National Book Critics Circle Award
  

• 1946 Elvis Presley receives his first guitar
  

• 1877 Crazy Horse fights his final battle
  

• 1815 Jackson leads troops to victory at New Orleans
• 1918 Wilson delivers Fourteen Points speech
  

• 2000 Music City Miracle
  

• 1967 Operation Cedar Falls is launched
• 1973 Peace talks resume in Paris
  

• 1917 Wilson outlines the Fourteen Points
  

• 1940 Mussolini questions Hitler’s plans

 

1885 Wilson’s first political work, Congressional Government, critically described the U.S. system of government and advocated adopting reforms to move the U.S. closer to a parliamentary system.

1896 In the presidential election, Wilson rejected Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan and supported the conservative “Gold Democrat” nominee, John M. Palmer.

1911 Wilson took office during the Mexican Revolution after liberals overthrew the military dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz.

1912 Despite his southern roots and record at Princeton, Wilson became the first Democrat to receive widespread support from the African American community in a presidential election.

1917 Eager to withdraw from Mexico due to tensions in Europe, Wilson ordered Pershing to withdraw, and the last American soldiers left.

The Fourteen Points speech of President Woodrow Wilson was an address delivered before a joint meeting of Congress on January 8, 1918, during which Wilson outlined his vision for a stable, long-lasting peace in Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world following World War I. …read more