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1699 Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches"
1784 Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris
1794 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for Model T-Fords
1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
1963 George C Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS
2004 Former Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to conspiracy as he accepted a 10-year prison sentence.
2005 Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., the reputed ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of abusing Iraqi detainees. (He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.).
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