THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1861 - The Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union.
1942 - Fire engulfs the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever.
1943 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin begins conferring in Tehran during World War II.
1961 - Ernie Davis of Syracuse University becomes the first African-American to be named winner of the Heisman Trophy.
1964 - The United States launches the space probe Mariner 4 on a course toward Mars, which it would fly past in July 1965, sending back pictures of the red planet.
1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as British prime minister during an audience with Queen Elizabeth II.