TVC E. 1849 – Today in history, the Austrian Reichstag was dissolved.
1850 – U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a method of preserving the Union.
1854 – Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone.
1901 – It was announced that blacks had been found enslaved in parts of South Carolina.
1904 – The Japanese bombed the Russian town of Vladivostok.
1906 – Finland granted women the right to vote.
1908 – Cincinnati’s Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, “Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles.”
1911 – In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. sent 20,000 troops to the border of Mexico.
1918 – Finland signed an alliance treaty with Germany.
1925 – The Soviet Red Army occupied Outer Mongolia.
1927 – A Texas law that banned Negroes from voting was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1933 – The board game Monopoly was invented.
1935 – Malcolm Campbell set an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
1936 – Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.
1942 – Japanese troops landed on New Guinea.
1945 – During World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany.
1947 – John L. Lewis declared that only a totalitarian regime could prevent strikes.
1951 – U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launched Operation Ripper against the Chinese.
1954 – Russia appeared for the first time in ice-hockey competition. Russia defeated Canada 7-2 to win the world ice-hockey title in Stockholm, Sweden.
1955 – “Peter Pan” was presented as a television special for the first time.