This Day in History
1770: Marie Antoinette married the future King Louis XVI of France.
1868: The first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate failed to convict President Andrew Johnson.
1929: The first Academy Awards were given on this night. The term, Oscars, was not used to describe the statuettes given to actors and actresses until 1931.
1946: The Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opened on Broadway.
1975: Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.
1991: Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to address the United States Congress.
1997: President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire ended 32 years of autocratic rule when rebel forces led by Laurent Kabila expelled him from the country.