Stocks closed higher Tuesday led by gains in retail and industrial companies, according to the Associated Press. The Dow gained 222.57 points (1.39%) to finish at 16,196.41, the NASDAQ closed 98.44 points (2.27%) higher at 4,435.96, and the S&P 500 was up 30.63 points (1.64%) at 1,895.41. The Russell 2000 increased 23.81 points (2.45%) to 995.80, and the Wilshire 5000 climbed 328.55 points (1.73%) to 19,312.92.

On the NYSE, 3.1 billion shares changed hands, with advancing issues outnumbering declining issues more than 4 to 1. On the NASDAQ, 2.7 billion shares traded, with a more than 3 to 1 lead for advancers.

ON THIS DATE: In 1801, the U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president. In 1817, the first gas-lit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland. In 1865, Columbia, South Carolina, burned. The Confederates were evacuating and the Union Forces were moving in. In 1876, Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines. In 1933, “Newsweek” was first published. In 1934, the first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, Pennsylvania. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be approximately equal in population. (Westberry v. Sanders) In 1965, comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on “The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson” on NBC-TV. In 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence director.