1896 - Dow Jones index begins with an average of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
1927 - Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie
1948 - South Africa elects a nationalist government under D. F. Malan with an apartheid policy
2004 - The United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carr…
