Today In History

In 1824: The presidential election was turned over to the House after John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay deadlocked. (Adams won.)

In 1955: Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. Mrs. Parks was arrested, sparking a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks.

In 1969: The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II.

In 1990: British and French workers digging the Channel Tunnel between their countries finally met after knocking out a passage in a service tunnel.