Today In History...

In 55 BC Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Britain.

In 1791 John Fitch is granted a U.S. patent for his working steamboat.

In 1847 Liberia is proclaimed an independent republic.

In 1883 The Krakatoa volcano erupts killing 36,000.

In 1907 Magician Harry Houdini escaped from a 75-pound ball-and-chain while
underwater at San Francisco's Aquatic Park in 57 seconds.

In 1920 The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American
women the right to vote, is declared in effect.

In 1939 The first televised major league baseball game is shown on
experimental station W2XBS. (Cinncinati Reds/Brooklyn Dodgers)

In 1946 Norma Jean Baker signs a contract with 20th Century Fox. Her name
was changed to Marilyn after dancer Marilyn Miller and her mother's
maiden name, Monroe.

In 1946 "Animal Farm" is published by George Orwell.

In 1953 The movie "The War of the Worlds" is released in the U.S.

In 1957 The USSR announces a successful test of the intercontinental
ballistic missile.

In 1961 The official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.

In 1962 Mariner II is launched for the first planet flyby (Venus).

In 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson is nominated for a term in office in his
own right at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In 1971 New Jersey Governor William T. Cahill announces the New York Giants
football team had agreed to leave Yankee Stadium for a new sports
complex to be built in East Rutherford. (Giants Stadium)

In 1972 The Summer Olympics open in Munich, West Germany.

In 1974 Charles Lindbergh, the first man to to fly solo, non-stop across the
Atlantic, dies at his home in Hawaii at age 72.

In 1974 Soyuz 15 carries two cosmonauts to space station Salyut 3.

In 1977 H.A. Rey, author of a popular constellation book, dies at age 78.

In 1978 Soyuz 31 is launched.

In 1978 Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice is elected the 264th Pope of the
Roman Catholic Church following the death of Paul VI. The new
pontiff took the name John Paul I.

In 1981 Voyager II makes its closest approach to Saturn.

In 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin conclude a 2-day meeting in Alexandria, Egypt.

In 1983 Soviet President Yuri V. Andropov offers to "liquidate" his
country's medium-range missles as part of a superpower agreement.

In 1986 In the so-called preppy murder case, 18-year-old Jennifer Levin is
found strangled in New York's Central Park. Robert Chambers later
pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

In 1987 West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl announces his country would
destroy 72 Pershing rockets if Washington and Moscow were to scrap
all their intermediate-range nuclear weapons.

In 1990 The bodies of two slain college students are found in their
off-campus apartment in Gainesville, FL. Three more bodies are
discovered in the days that followed, setting off a panic.

In 1991 In an address to the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union's national
legislature, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promises national
elections in a last-ditch effort to preserve his government.

In 1992 The U.S., Britain and France impose a no-fly zone over the southern
third of Iraq aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite Muslims.

In 1992 A federal judge declares a mistrial in the Iran-Contra cover-up
trial of former CIA spy chief Clair George (George was convicted of
perjury in a retrial, but was then pardoned by President Bush).

In 1993 Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 14 co-defendants enter innocent pleas in
New York federal court in, a day after their indictment on charges
of conspiring to wage terrorism against the U.S.

In 1993 Landlady Dorothea Puente is convicted in Monterey, CA, of murdering
three of her boardinghouse tenants. (She gets life without parole.)

In 1995 President Clinton explains his decision to impose a two-year
moratorium on mining claims on 4,500 acres of federal land near the
northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park, saying the federal
land was "more priceless than gold."

In 1996 Democrats open the 42nd national convention in Chicago.

In 1996 A Cuban court convicts fugitive American financier Robert Vesco of
economic crimes and sentences him to 13 years in prison.

In 1996 Former military ruler of South Korea, Chun Doo-hwan is sentenced to
death and fined $270 million for mutiny, treason and embezzlement.

In 1996 Four females become the first women in the school's 153-year history
to take the oath of a Citadel cadet.

In 1997 Former South African President F.W. de Klerk, who shared Nobel Peace
Prize for helping to end apartheid, resigns as leader of party that
created the practice.

In 1998 A suspect in U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya is brought to the U.S.
for trial.

In 2002 Vice President Dick Cheney warns the U.S. could face devastating
consequences from any delay in acting to remove Saddam Hussein as
president of Iraq.

In 2003 Investigators conclude that NASA's overconfident management and
inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as
did damage to the craft.

In 2016 Women's Equality Day.


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