Lead Story 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone American Revolution 1777 Five letters pass between Abigail and John Adams Automotive 1938 Janet Guthrie, first female Indy 500 driver, born Civil War 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern), Arkansas Cold War 1950 Soviet Union denies Klaus Fuchs served as its spy Crime 2002 Defense rests in Andrea Yates trial Disaster 1988 Cyclone Bola hits New Zealand General Interest 1936 Hitler reoccupies the Rhineland 1973 Bangladesh’s first democratic leader 1999 Stanley Kubrick dies Hollywood 1988 Writers Guild of America strike begins 2010 Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first female director to win an Oscar Literary 1923 “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” is published Music 1974 Pearl Bailey and Richard Nixon serenade a White House audience Old West 1885 Kansas quarantines Texas cattle Presidential 1977 Carter meets with Yitzhak Rabin Sports 1987 Mike Tyson unifies titles Vietnam War 1966 U.S. jets launch heaviest air raids of the war 1967 Republic of Korea forces operation launch 1972 Jets engage in aerial combat World War I 1918 Finland signs treaty with Germany World War II 1941 British forces arrive in Greece
