On this day in history

0660: Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
1531: Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England.
1815: News of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812, finally reaches the United States.
1904: President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims strict neutrality for the United States in the Russo-Japanese War.
1936: The Reich arrests 150 Catholic youth leaders in Berlin.
1945: The meeting of President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Marshal Joseph Stalin in Yalta, adjourns.
1951: U.N. forces push north across the 38th parallel for the second time in the Korean War.
1953: Walt Disney's film Peter Pan premieres.
1954: A 75,000-watt light bulb is lit at the Rockefeller Center in New York, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Thomas Edison's first light bulb.
1959: Iran turns down Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid.
1962: Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at age 30.
1964: Cambodian Prince Sihanouk blames the United States for a South Vietnamese air raid on a village in his country.
1965: President Lyndon Johnson orders air strikes against targets in North Vietnam, in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on the American military in South Vietnam.
1966: Vice President Hubert Humphrey begins a tour of Vietnam.
1974: Communist-led rebels shower artillery fire into a crowded area of Phnom Pehn, killing 139 and injuring 46 others.
1975: Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to lead the British Conservative Party.
1990: South African political leader Nelson Mandela is released from prison in Paarl, South Africa, after serving more than 27 years of a life sentence.

Source: HistoryNet.com