Jefferson Davis inaugurated as provisional president of Confederate states –
First session of Confederate Congress, Richmond, Virginia –
Auguste Bartholdi granted design patent for Statue of Liberty –
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn published in the U.S. –
First coiled postage stamps issued –
Planet Pluto discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona –
Elm Farm Ollie, a Guernsey, became the first cow to fly in an airplane. On the same trip she also became the first cow milked in flight –
First unmanned test flight of space shuttle Enterprise mounted on another aircraft –
Hiroyuki Goto recited pi to 42,195 digits –
Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian TV network, cancelled Pat Boone’s weekly gospel music show after he appeared in black leather and fake tattoos on the American Music Awards show –
Evan Lysacek won the Olympic gold medal in men’s figure skating. He became the first U.S. man to win the gold medal since Brian Boitano in 1988 –
Firenado captured on video, Platte County, Missouri –
Weather
San Francisco, California, recorded a temperature of 80 degrees F –
New England experienced extremely high temperatures, with Boston, Massachusetts at 66, Providence, Rhode Island at 72, and Concord, New Hampshire, at 63 degrees F –
