The Senate ratified a peace treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
1911
Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born in Tampico, Illinois.
1922
Cardinal Archille Ratti was elected pope; he took the name Pius XI.
1933
The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the so-called lame duck amendment, was proclaimed in effect by Secretary of State Henry Stimson.
1943
A Los Angeles jury acquitted actor Errol Flynn of three counts of statutory rape.
1952
Britain’s King George VI, 56, died at Sandringham House in Norfolk, England; he was succeeded as monarch by his 25-year-old elder daughter, who became Queen Elizabeth II.
