1940: Bugs Bunny makes his official debut in A Wild Hare
1942: Two issei internees are shot to death by guards at Lordsburg, New Mexico; the “attempted escapees” were actually barely able to walk
1946: Gertrude Stein dies [audio]
1974: “RESOLVED, That Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate …”