Today
1959 - Fidel Castro is sworn in as prime minister of Cuba.
1979 - The Bee Gees receive two Grammys for best album in 1978, Saturday Night Fever, and best pop group.
1982 - Thelonious Monk dies at 65.
Tomorrow
1947 - Voice of America begins broadcasts to Russia in a propaganda campaign against the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
1979 - China invades Vietnam.
1986 - "The Accidental Tourist" wins the National Book Critics Award.
Wednesday
1929 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, founded in 1927, announces the winners of the first Academy Awards.
1930 - The planet Pluto is discovered at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff by
astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh.
1995 - The one-season revival of "Get Smart," the 1960s comedy about bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart, is canceled after only seven episodes.
Thursday
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Torun, Poland.
1878 - Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1945 - Operation Detachment, the U.S. Marines' invasion of Iwo Jima, is launched.
Friday
1902 - Ansel Adams, the famous Western photographer, is born in San Francisco.
1950 - Dylan Thomas arrives in New York for his first reading tour of the United States.
1962 - John Hershel Glenn Jr. launches into space aboard Friendship 7, the first orbital flight by an American astronaut.