THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1999 The euro debuts

• American Revolution

• 1796 Congress accepts Colors of the French Republic

• Automotive

• 1996 GM announces its electric car

• Civil War

• 1863 Confederate General Roger Hanson dies

• Cold War

• 1950 The God That Failed published

• Crime

• 1964 Boston Strangler strikes again

• Disaster

• 1990 Trains collide in Pakistan

• General Interest

• 1896 Utah enters the Union
• 1974 President Nixon refuses to hand over tapes
• 1987 Segovia begins final U.S. tour
• 1995 104th Congress under Republican control

• Hollywood

• 2003 National Society of Film Critics honors The Pianist

• Literary

• 1785 Jacob Grimm is born
• 1965 Poet T.S. Eliot dies in London

• Music

• 1964 Bobby Vinton tops the pop charts with the last #1 single of the pre-Beatles era

• Old West

• 1847 Colt sells his first revolvers to the U.S. government

• Presidential

• 1965 L.B.J. envisions a Great Society in his State of the Union address

• Sports

• 2006 Vince Young leads Texas over USC in the Rose Bowl

• Vietnam War

• 1965 Johnson reaffirms commitment to South Vietnam
• 1974 Thieu announces war has resumed

• World War I

• 1913 Alfred von Schlieffen dies

• World War II

• 1944 United States begins supplying guerrilla forces