Other Events
1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1922 – Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Births
1533 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1645 – Johann Aegidius Bach, German violist (d. 1716)
1666 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
1737 – Thomas Paine, English radical liberal philosopher, American revolutionary (d. 1809)
