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• On this date:
• In 1845, Florida became the 27th state.
• In 1849, the U.S. Department of the Interior was established.

• In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the National Academy of Sciences.
• In 1894, British Prime Minister William Gladstone submitted his resignation to Queen Victoria, ending his fourth and final premiership.
• In 1913, more than 5,000 suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., a day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.
• In 1923, Time magazine, founded by Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce, made its debut.
• In 1943, in London's East End, 173 people died in a crush of bodies at the Bethnal Green tube station, which was being used as a wartime air raid shelter.

• In 1945, the Allies fully secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.
• In 1969, Apollo 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a mission to test the lunar module.
• In 1974, a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, killing all 346 people on board.
• In 1991, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video. Twenty-five people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed while approaching the Colorado Springs airport.
• In 1993, health pioneer Albert Sabin (SAY'-bihn), developer of the oral polio vaccine, died in Washington, D.C. at age 86.
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• Ten years ago: Israeli troops arrested Hamas co-founder Mohammed Taha in a deadly raid. (Israel released him 14 months later.) President George W. Bush offered a rough blueprint for adding drug benefits to Medicare. Malcolm Kilduff, the White House spokesman who announced to a shocked world the death of President John F. Kennedy, died in Beattyville, Ky., at age 75.
• Five years ago: Democrat Barack Obama said his campaign had never given Canada back-channel assurances that his harsh words about the North American Free Trade Agreement were for political show, despite a Canadian memo indicating otherwise. A gunman opened fire inside a Wendy's restaurant in West Palm Beach, Fla., killing a paramedic who'd gone back to fetch a missing meal toy for his child;

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