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St. Louis, Missouri, was founded as a French fur-trading post.

A private mail service at New York City introduced the first adhesive postage stamps.

President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill to allow female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The U.S. battleship Maine blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 260 crew members and escalating tensions with Spain.

White House picketers, who had done prison time, toured the United States on a “Prison Special” train organized by the National Women’s Party.

President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an attempt on his life in Miami,when an assailant fired at him. Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed.

Seventy-three people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the world championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.

Canada’s new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa.

The Beatles, along with other celebrities, journeyed to Rishikesh in India to study Transcendental Meditation under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They departed amid unsubstantiated rumors of the Maharishi’s sexual impropriety toward some of the female students and the band members suspicions that he was using their fame for self-promotion.

American Basketball Association Anaheim Amigos Les Salvage scored 10 3-point baskets in a game against the Denver Rockets at the Auditorium Arena in Denver, Colorado.  The Denver Rockets won, 142-108. In 1974, the Denver Rockets changed their name to the Denver Nuggets.

More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.