1867

The U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, giving Black men in the nation’s capital the right to vote.

1918

President Woodrow Wilson outlined his 14 Points for peace after World War I.

1935

Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

1994

Tonya Harding won the ladies’ U.S. Figure Skating Championship, a day after Nancy Kerrigan dropped out because of a clubbing attack injured her right knee. (The U.S. Figure Skating Association later stripped Harding of the title.)