a long long time ago

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1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.


1850 Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a compromise bill on slavery that included the admission of California into the Union as a free state.
 
1886 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
 
1900 The American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia.


1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland

1936 The first five members of baseball's Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1996 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"

2002 In his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush warned of "an axis of evil" consisting of North Korea, Iran and Iraq.