Also on this day: Elizabeth I accedes to the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary, beginning a 44-year reign.Congress holds its first session in the partially completed U.S.
Capitol building.The Suez Canal opens in Egypt.The Union Pacific Railroad Co. begins direct, daily railroad service between Chicago and Portland, Oregon, as well as Chicago and San Francisco.French sculptor Auguste Rodin dies in Meudon at age 77.
President Harry S.Truman, in an address to a special session of Congress, calls for emergency aid to Austria, Italy and France. (The aid would be approved the following month.)Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 Black and/or female American hostages being held at the U.S.
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