On this day :

1922 USSR established, 1803 Francis Lewis dies, 1936 Sitdown strike begins in Flint, 1862 USS Monitor sinks, 1950 Acheson calls for renewed effort to meet communist threat, 1994 An antiabortion activist goes on a murder spree, 1903 Fire breaks out in Chicago theater, 1853 Southern US border established, 1916 Rasputin murdered, 1965 Marcos inaugurated, 1940 Cheers cocreator and famed TV director James Burrows born, 1816 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin wed, 1968 Led Zeppelin captured live for the first time in Spokane gym, 1905 Former Idaho governor Steunenberg assassinated, 1852 Rutherford B Hayes marries Lucy Webb, 1978 OSU fires coach Woody Hayes for attacking an opposing player, 1970 US Navy transfers some responsibility to South Vietnamese, 1972 Negotiations to resume in Paris, 1916 Rasputin is murdered, 1884 Tojo is born,