February 10, 2020 This Day in History: Feb. 10 Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman” opens at Broadway’s Morosco Theater in New York City. Shirley Temple dies.
February 7, 2020 This Day in History: Feb. 7 Charles Dickens is born in Landport, Portsmouth, England. President John F. Kennedy imposes a full trade embargo on Cuba.
February 6, 2020 This Day in History: Feb. 6 Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, is born in Tampico, Ill. ABC’s “20/20” airs a British documentary, “Living With Michael Jackson,” in which the “King of Pop” reveals he sometimes let children sleep in his bed.
February 4, 2020 Patty Hearst kidnapped: This Day in History Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped 46 years ago Tuesday, putting in motion a bizarre chain of events that ended with her being convicted of robbing a bank with a terror group and then being pardoned by President Jimmy Carter.
February 4, 2020 George Washington elected 1st president: This Day in History On this day in history, 1789, George Washington was elected the first President of the United States.
February 4, 2020 This Day in History: Feb. 4 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, 19, is kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army.
February 3, 2020 This Day in History: Feb. 3 Rock-and-roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson die in a small plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
January 31, 2020 This Day in History: Jan. 31 The U.S. enters the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite, Explorer 1.
January 30, 2020 This Day in History: Jan. 30 Mahatma Gandhi, 78, is fatally shot in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. KISS performs its first show at a club in Queens, N.Y.
January 29, 2020 This Day in History: Jan. 29 The first players are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.