On this date...

In 1746, the Battle of Culloden took place between the forces of the Bonnie Prince Charles Stuart and the British. The British would win suppressing the Jacobite rebellion and sending Charles Stuart into exile.

In 1789, Washington leaves Mt. Vernon to travel to New York City to be inaugurated as the first President of the United States under the newly ratified U.S. Constitution.

In 1862, Lincoln signs an act abolishing slavery in Washinton D.C.

In 1881, Bat Masterson fights his last gunfights that was documented.

In 1912, Harriet Quimbley because the first woman to fly across the English Channel. She was also the first woman to earn a pilot's license.

In 1963, Martine Luther King Jr write "Letter from Birmingham" while he sat in jail.