Today in history
1800
Congress held its first session in the partially completed U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
1973
President Richard Nixon told a gathering of Associated Press managing editors at a televised news conference in Orlando, Florida: “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
1989
An estimated 10,000-15,000 Czechoslovakian students demonstrated in Prague against Communist rule; hundreds of thousands joined in the following days.