This day in history
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1770: Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France.
1817: Mississippi River steamboat service begins.
1836: Edgar Allan Poe (aged 26) marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm.
1860: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate.
1868: US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
1869: Cincinnati Reds play their first baseball game.
1888: CP opens Hotel Vancouver in Vancouver, BC.
1920: Joan of Arc is canonized a saint.
1929: First Academy Awards: "Wings", Emil Jannings & Janet Gaynor win.
1944: First of 180,000 Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.
1965: The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs.
1971: The cost of a first class postage rises to 8 cents (from 6 cents).
1981: "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 and stays there for nine weeks.
1985: Michael Jordan is named the NBA's Rookie of the Year.
1986: "Top Gun", directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise, premieres.
2013: Human stem cells are successfully cloned.
