Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood” hit number one on this day and stayed there for 12 weeks.
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Hitler gave his first speech as Chancellor explaining why Nazi power should rule.
Amy Winehouse scored five awards at the 50th Grammy Awards.
Oil well gusher fired 1,000 feet into the air near Tampico, Mexico making it the largest in history.
A computer defeated world champion chess player Gary Kasparov for the first time.
Two Australian warships, the HMAS Melbourne and the HMAS Voyager, collided off the New South Wales coast.
