You can check here and there. This is what stood out to me:
1759 Robert Burns (d.1796), poet and song writer, who wrote ”Auld Lang Syne” and “Comin’ Thru the Rye,” was born in Alloway, Scotland.
1861 Pres. Lincoln picked Ferdinand Schavers, a black man, as his first bodyguard.
1877 Congress determined the presidential election between Hayes and Tilden. Tilden won the popular votes, while Hays won the electoral votes.
1919 The League of Nations plan was adopted by the Allies.
1961 President Kennedy held the first presidential news conference carried live on radio and television.
1970 The Robert Altman film “M*A*S*H” premiered in NYC.
1971: Idi Amin ousts the Uganda president
What stood out to you–KSH?