Today in History

Largest steel strike in American history, in progress since August, ends.

U.S. Jewish leaders bar a meeting with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat.

The Winter Olympics begin in Sapporo, Japan.

The U.S. Senate approves 23rd Amendment calling for a ban on the poll tax.

Arlington and Norfolk, Va., peacefully desegregate public schools.

The United States and Italy sign a pact of friendship, commerce and navigation.

Some 1,200 Royal Air Force planes blast Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe.

The Germans stop an Allied attack at Anzio, Italy.

Last of the German strongholds at Stalingrad surrender to the Red Army.

Hungary breaks relations with the Soviet Union.

Alfred Rosenberg is made philosophical chief of the Nazi Party.

Airmail service opens between New York and San Francisco. Airmail’s First Day.

U.S. Senate votes independence for Philippines, effective in 1921.

Mexican government troops are badly beaten by Yaqui Indians.

Six cities, Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis agree to form baseball‘s American League.