On this day :

1998 FDA approves Viagra, 1775 Jefferson elected to the Continental Congress, 1952 Toyota founder dies, 1865 Lincoln Sherman and Grant meet, 1990 TV Marti begins broadcasting to Cuba, 1905 Fingerprint evidence is used to solve a British murder case, 1977 Jumbo jets collide at Canary Islands airport, 1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac, 1958 Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier, 1964 Earthquake rocks Alaska, 1973 Marlon Brando declines Best Actor Oscar, 1923 Poet Louis Simpson born, 1979 Pattie Boyd and Eric Clapton are married, 1836 Mexicans execute defenders of Goliad, 1829 Jackson appoints John Eaton as secretary of war and starts scandal, 1939 March Madness is born, 1965 South Vietnamese forces conduct combat operations in Cambodia, 1973 Bombing of Cambodia to continue, 1918 Bessarabia annexed by Romania, 1945 Germans launch last of their V2s,