1933

Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire; Adolf Hitler, blaming communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.

1951

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms in office, was ratified.

1973

Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of members of the Sioux tribe.

1991

Operation Desert Storm came to a conclusion as President George H.W. Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated.”