| On this date in: |
| 1827 | The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co. was incorporated. |
| 1854 | About 50 slavery opponents met in Ripon, Wis., to call for creation of a new political group that became the Republican Party. |
| 1861 | The Territory of Colorado was organized. |
| 1940 | College basketball was televised for the first time as station W2XBS aired the Pittsburgh-Fordham and Georgetown-NYU games from Madison Square Garden in New York. |
| 1953 | Scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that contains the human genes, at Cambridge University. |
| 1960 | The U.S. Olympic hockey team won the gold medal, defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4 at Squaw Valley, Calif. |
| 1972 | President Richard M. Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued the Shanghai Communique at the conclusion of Nixon's historic visit to China, a step toward the eventual normalization of relations between the two countries. |
| 1974 | The United States and Egypt re-established diplomatic relations after a seven-year break. |
| 1983 | The album "War" by U2 was released. |
| 1991 | Allied and Iraqi forces suspended their attacks as Iraq pledged to accept all United Nations resolutions concerning Kuwait. |
| 1993 | A gun battle erupted at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, when Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents tried to serve warrants; four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff began. |
| 2005 | Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigned amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut. |
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