The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars and Mercury. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Uranus and Venus.
In 1836, Samuel Colt patented a "revolving gun," the first of the six-shooters.
In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Miss., was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American to sit in Congress.
In 1901, the United States Steel Corp. was founded by J.P. Morgan.
In 1922, Henri Landru, better known as Bluebeard, was executed in France for killing 10 of his girlfriends.In 1951, the inaugural Pan American Games began in Buenos Aires.
In 1964, brash underdog Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) stunned the boxing world with a TKO of Sonny "the Bear" Liston, winning the world heavyweight championship.
In 1986, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos left his Manila palace for Hawaii, ending 20 years in power.
In 1990, Violeta Chamorro, the U.S.-backed candidate for the presidency of Nicaragua, scored an upset victory over President Daniel Ortega, leader of the leftist Sandinista Liberation Front.
In 1991, the Warsaw Pact nations signed an agreement to dissolve the alliance after 36 years.
In 1994, 32 Muslim worshippers were killed by a Jewish settler who opened fire with an automatic weapon in the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank town of Hebron. The settler was overpowered and beaten to death.
In 2005, authorities arrested Dennis Rader, a municipal employee and church leader, for the so-called BTK (blind, torture, kill) serial killings that terrorized Wichita, Kan. Rader was convicted and sentenced to 10 consecutive life terms.
