Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1493

Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

1820

Maine became the 23rd state.

1875

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York City, John McCloskey, was named the first American cardinal by Pope Pius IX.

1913

President Wilson held the first open presidential news conference.

1919

The American Legion was founded, in Paris.

1956

The Lerner and Loewe musical ''My Fair Lady'' opened on Broadway.

1964

Actress Elizabeth Taylor married actor Richard Burton in Montreal; it was her fifth marriage, his second.

1965

Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Johnson called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote.

1977

The U.S. House of Representatives began a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of showing its sessions on TV.

1998

CBS' ''60 Minutes'' aired an interview with former White House employee Kathleen Willey, who said President Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward her in the Oval Office in 1993, a charge denied by the president.

1767

The seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C.

1975

Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis died near Paris at age 69.

1998

Dr. Benjamin Spock, whose child care guidance spanned a half-century, died at age 94.