On this day …
- In 1540, King Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves.
- In 1853, President-elect Franklin Pierce and his family were involved in a train wreck near Andover; Pierce’s 11-year-old son, Benjamin, was killed.
- In 1912, New Mexico was admitted to the Union as the 47th state.
- In 1929, Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta to begin her work among India’s poorest and sickest people.
- In 1931, Thomas Edison submitted his last patent application.
- In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
- In 1947, Pan American Airlines became the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
