Today In History

Events
161 - On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius became emperor.
1869 - The Suez Canal, the waterway across Egypt connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, was opened.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the telephone.
1917 - The first gramophone record of a jazz band was released, by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
1926 - The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented by Charles Darrow.
1936 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
1965 - About 525 people began a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery, demonstrating for African-American voting rights and to commemorate the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, shot three weeks earlier by an state trooper while trying to protect his mother at a civil rights demonstration.
1994 - The Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use," therefore not requiring permission from the copyright holder.
2001 - Ariel Sharon took office as the prime minister of Israel.

SOURCE: Reference.com