1770: British troops fire on a crowd in Boston, fueling anti-Loyalist sentiment.
1836: Samuel Colt makes his first, production-modle revolver in .34 caliber. It is the first mass-produced handgun that the average citizen can afford.
1933: Hitler receives 43% of the vote in the Reichstag. This gives the Nazi party a majority, and is soon followed by the Enabling Act.
1946: Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" for the first time in an anti-Soviet speech at Westminster College, MO
1953: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin dies at age 74. His cult of personality and terror machine killed over 20 million of his own people, and enslaved over 600 million by the end of WWII. In 2003, a group of Russian an American scientists announced their belief that Stalin had died because of warfarin poisoning, making his death an assassination. One year later, in 1954, the new Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced Stalin as a monster and traitor to Russia.
1960: Cuban photographer Alberto Korba snaps his infamous picture of Che Guevara. It has become the single most widely reproduced image of the Marxist revolutionary to date, featured on T-shirts, magazines, posters, pamphlets, books and other merchandise.
