In 1773, James Oglethorpe and some 130 English colonists arrived at Charleston, S.C., to settle in present-day Georgia.
In 1864, composer Stephen Foster died in a New York hospital.
In 1898, Emile Zola's famous defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus was published in Paris.
In 1906, the first advertisement for a radio, a Telimco selling for $7.50, appeared in Scientific American.
In 1941, novelist James Joyce died in Zurich, Switzerland.
In 1982, and Air Florida 737 taking off in a snowstorm crashed into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington D.C., and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.