Mexican criminal Joaquín Guzmán (“El Chapo”), head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was captured in Los Mochis after escaping prison some six months earlier; he was later extradited to the United States, where he was convicted of various crimes. 2016. 

Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, convicted of plotting the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, was sentenced to life in prison. 1998. 

Charles de Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France‘s Fifth Republic. 1959

U.S. General Andrew Jackson defeated Great Britain in the Battle of New Orleans, the final engagement in the War of 1812. 1815. 

U.S. President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union, the annual address to Congress. 1790