1852 The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad posts regular schedules between Pittsburgh and Alliance, Canton, Massillon and Wooster, Ohio. It offers four trains daily, the first leaving Pittsburgh at 8 a.m. and arriving in Wooster at 3:30 p.m.

1934 Lyndon Baines Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird," in San Antonio, Texas.

1968 The NBC television network outrages Football fans by cutting away from the closing minutes of a New York Jets - Oakland Raiders game to begin a special presentation of "Heidi" on schedule. (Home viewers are prevented from seeing the Raiders come from behind to beat the Jets, 43-32.)

1997 Hundreds of Pittsburgh Penguins fans travel to Toronto to witness the ceremonies in which Brian Trottier and Mario Lemieux are inducted into hockey's Hall of Fame. The three-year waiting period is waived for Lemieux, who retired in 1996.

Some items are from Stefan Lorant's "Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City" digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology.

-- Compiled by Rick Nowlin

Today's birthdays: Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, 70. Movie director Martin Scorsese, 66. Actress Lauren Hutton, 65. Actor-director Danny DeVito, 64. "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels, 64. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver, 64. Movie director Roland Joffe, 63. Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean, 60. Entertainer RuPaul, 48. Country singer Aaron Lines, 31. Rock musician Isaac Hanson (Hanson), 28. Actress Raquel Castro, 14.

Thought for today: "There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die -- their silence."

-- Ben Hecht, American author and screenwriter (1893-1964)