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Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.)
• In 1803, in its Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court established judicial review of the constitutionality of statutes.
• In 1821, Mexican rebels proclaimed the Plan de Iguala, their declaration of independence from Spain.
• In 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.
• In 1912, the American Jewish women's organization Hadassah was founded in New York City.
• In 1920, the German Workers Party, which later became the Nazi Party, met in Munich to adopt its platform.
• In 1938, the first nylon bristle toothbrush, manufactured by DuPont under the name "Dr. West's Miracle Toothbrush," went on sale. (Previously, toothbrush bristles were made from animal hair.)
• In 1955, the Cole Porter musical "Silk Stockings" opened at the Imperial Theater on Broadway.
• In 1961, the Federal Communications Commission authorized the nation's first full-scale trial of pay television in Hartford, Conn.
• In 1988, in a ruling that expanded legal protections for parody and satire, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned a $150,000 award that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler magazine and publisher Larry Flynt.
• In 1989, a state funeral was held in Japan for Emperor Hirohito, who had died the month before at age 87.
• In 1994, entertainer Dinah Shore died in Beverly Hills, Calif., five days before turning 78.
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• Ten years ago: Democrat John Kerry defeated John Edwards by large margins in Utah and Idaho, and also won in Hawaii, where Edwards ran third behind Dennis Kucinich. President George W. Bush urged approval of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. A 6.5-magnitude earthquake devastated an isolated region of northern Morocco, killing more than 600 people. Character actor John Randolph died in Hollywood at age 88.
• Five years ago: In the first prime-time speech of his term, President Barack Obama appeared before Congress to sketch an agenda that began with jobs, then broadened quickly to include a stable credit system, better schools, health care reform, reliable domestic sources of energy and an end to the war in Iraq. Earlier in the day, President Obama held an 80-minute private talk with Japanese Prime Min

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