2006 | Momofuku Ando, ramen instant noodle inventor and founder of Nissin Food Products, Inc., dies of a heart attack at age 96.
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2004 | Baseball pitcher 'Tug' McGraw dies of brain cancer at age 62.
Did you know? Tug was father of country music superstar Tim McGraw, and father-in-law of country singer Faith Hill.
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1998 | Politician Sonny Bono, formerly of the Sonny and Cher pop duo, dies in a skiing accident in Lake Tahoe, California, at age 62. |
1996 | The longest US government shutdown ends after 21 days when Congress passes an interim spending measure allowing federal employees to return to work. |
1994 | Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, former speaker of the US House of Representatives, dies in
Boston at age 81. |
1993 | Washington state hangs serial killer Westley Allan Dodd, the first such execution in the US in 28 years. |
1979 | Jazz bassist Charles Mingus dies of a heart attack at age 56. |
1975 | The Wiz, a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, opens on Broadway. |
1972 | US president Richard Nixon approves the NASA space shuttle program. |
1970 | Joseph Yablonski, presidential candidate for the United Mine Workers union, is found murdered at home with his wife and daughter. |
1961 | The television comedy Mr. Ed debuts, for the first of six seasons of mirth and mayhem, centered around a horse that talks only to his owner, Wilbur Post. |
1949 | US president Harry Truman nicknames his administration the 'Fair Deal' in his State of the Union address. |
1943 | Scientist and educator George Washington Carver dies in Tuskegee, Alabama, at age 81. |
1933 | Calvin Coolidge, 30th US president, dies in Northampton, MA, at age 60. |
1925 | Nellie T. Ross becomes the first female governor in the US, succeeding her late husband as governor of Wyoming. |
1589 | In 1589, Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, dies at age 69. |