On this day :

1990 Noriega surrenders to US, 1777 The Battle of Princeton, 1969 Alltime Formula One champ born, 1861 Delaware rejects secession, 1961 United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba, 1990 The husband did it The controversial Stuart case, 1999 Great Lakes region digs out from record blizzard, 1521 Martin Luther excommunicated, 1868 Meiji Restoration in Japan, 1924 King Tuts sarcophagus uncovered, 1959 Alaska admitted into Union, 1967 Jack Ruby dies before second trial, 1952 Dragnet TV show debuts, 1841 Herman Melville sails for the South Seas, 1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts first woman, 1834 Stephen Austin imprisoned by Mexicans, 1938 Franklin Roosevelt founds March of Dimes, 1993 Buffalo Bills pull off greatest comeback in NFL history, 1965 Antigovernment demonstrators clash with police, 1968 McCarthy announces his presidential candidacy, 1917 British nurse Marion Rice writes from a hospital on the Western Front, 1945 MacArthur and Nimitz given new commands,