1770 Marie Antoinette, at age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.
1868 U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote.
1888 The capitol of Texas was dedicated in Austin.
1939 The Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Indians met at Shibe Park in Philadelphia for the first baseball game to be played under the lights in the American League.
1948 The body of CBS News correspondent George Polk was found in Solonika Bay in Greece. It had been a week after he'd disappeared.
1960 A Big Four summit in Paris collapsed due to the American U-2 spy plane incident.
1963 After 22 Earth orbits, Gordon Cooper returned to Earth, ending Project Mercury.
1969 Venus 5, a Russian spacecraft, landed on the planet Venus.
1985 Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.
1988 A report released by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine was addictive in similiar ways as heroin and cocaine.
1991 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1992 The Endeavour space shuttle landed safely after its maiden voyage.
1996 Admiral Jeremy "Mike" Boorda, the nation's top Navy officer, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after some of his military awards were called into question.
1997 In Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko gave control of the country to rebel forces ending 32 years of autocratic rule.
2000 U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated to run for U.S. Senator in New York. She was the first U.S. first lady to run for public office.