On this day :

2005 Gonzales becomes first Hispanic US attorney general, 1781 Greene crosses the Yadkin with Kosciuskos boats, 2006 Worlds Fastest Indian makes US debut, 1865 Hampton Roads Conference, 1950 Klaus Fuchs arrested for passing atomic bomb information to Soviets, 1780 Early American mass murder changes common perceptions of crime, 1998 Marine jet severs skilift cable in Italy, 1924 Woodrow Wilson dies, 1953 Cousteau publishes The Silent World, 1959 The day the music died, 1966 Lunik 9 softlands on lunar surface, 1994 Clinton ends Vietnam trade embargo, 1989 John Cassavetes dies, 1820 Keats falls deathly ill, 1959 The Music dies in an Iowa cornfield, 1889 Belle Starr murdered in Oklahoma, 1994 Clinton ends trade embargo of Vietnam, 2002 New England Patriots win first Super Bowl, 2008 New York Giants upset New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, 1955 Diem institutes limited agrarian reforms, 1970 Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings, 1917 US breaks diplomatic relations with Germany, 1944 US troops capture the Marshall Islands,