This Day in History

1066 – Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.

1838 – Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.

1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.

1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome.

1912 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.

1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.

1941 – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address.

1974 – In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.

Births

1412 – Joan of Arc, French military figure and Roman Catholic Saint (legendary date) (d. 1431)

1714 – Percivall Pott, English physician (d. 1788)

1799 – Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer (d. 1831)

1913 – Loretta Young, American actress (d. 2000)