The earliest event that Wiki says happened on this day is “307 – Jin Huidi, Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Jin Huaidi” and the most recent is “2011 – An attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 people and wounds 13, including Giffords.”
A few other things that also took place on this day are:
1815 – General Andrew Jackson defeats the British during the Battle of New Orleans.
1835 – For the first (and so far, only) time, the US national debt is zero.
1941 – William Randolph Hearst forbids his newspapers across the country from accepting any advertisement for the movie Citizen Kane.
Happy birthday to David Bowie, Robby Krieger, Terry Brooks, Stephen Hawking, Bob Eubanks, Charles Osgood, and Larry Storch.