1776

Washington orders General Lee to New Jersey »

1927

Holland Tunnel appears on the cover of Time »

1861

Judah Benjamin becomes Confederate secretary of war »

1975

Congressional report charges U.S. involvement in assassination plots »

1986

Oliver North starts feeding documents into the shredding machine »

1916

Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea »

1783

Men fly over Paris »

1877

Edison’s first great invention »

1985

Israeli spy arrested in United States »

1976

Rocky premieres »

1694

Voltaire’s birthday »

1934

Ella Fitzgerald wins Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater »

1860

Tom Horn is born in Missouri »

1864

Lincoln allegedly writes to mother of Civil War casualties »

1967

Westmoreland tells media the communists are losing »

1970

U.S. force raids Son Tay prison camp »

1916

Emperor Franz Josef of Austria dies »

1941

Nazi chief architect requests POWs to labor for a new Berlin »