On this day in 1893, Russian composer Tchaikovsky died at the age of 53.
On this day in 1917, the U.S. state of New York passed legislation granting voting rights to women, becoming the first state to embrace women's suffrage.
On this day in 2008, Google pulled the plug on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo over antitrust concerns; Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said Microsoft had rejected an offer to sell Yahoo to the software giant.