Today In History...
In 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in
England.
In 1813 The British burn Buffalo, New York, during the War of 1812.
In 1837 Canadian militiamen destroy the Caroline, a U.S. steamboat docked at
Buffalo, New York.
In 1845 Texas becomes the 28th U.S. state.
In 1848 Gas lights are installed at the White House for the first time.
In 1851 The first Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) chapter opens in
Boston, MA.
In 1890 The Wounded Knee massacre takes place in South Dakota. 300 Sioux
Indians are killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.
In 1913 The first movie serial, "The Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in
Chicago, Illinois.
In 1934 Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London
Naval Treaty of 1930.
In 1940 During World War II, Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on
London, England.
In 1949 The first UHF TV station begins regular operations in Bridgeport,
Connecticut.
In 1952 The first transistorized hearing aid is offered for sale in
Elmsford, New York.
In 1975 11 are killed, 75 are hurt, when a terrorist's bomb explodes at
LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
In 1983 The Rev. Jesse Jackson leaves New York on his successful mission to
Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy pilot Robert O. Goodman
Jr., who had been shot down during a raid in Lebanon.
In 1984 Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parliamentary
elections as his Congress Party captures more than a two-thirds
majority in the lower house of Parliament.
In 1985 2 days after terrorists murder 20 civilians at the Rome and Vienna
airports in Italy, Libya's Khadafi calls them "heros."
In 1986 Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dies at age 92.
In 1987 Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko ends a recond 326 days in space.
In 1987 NASA delays the planned June launch of the space shuttle -- the
first since the Challenger disaster -- because a motor component
failed during a test-firing of the redesigned booster rocket.
In 1988 The FAA, responding to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, announces
tightened security measures for U.S. air carriers at 103 airports in
the Middle East and Western Europe.
In 1989 Playwright Vaclav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia by
the country's Federal Assembly, becoming the first non-communist to
hold the post in over forty years.
In 1991 Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris
Yeltsin announces that Russia would create its own army.
In 1992 Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
In 1992 New York Governor Mario Cuomo commutes the sentence of Jean Harris,
the convicted killer of "Scarsdale Diet" author Herman Tarnower.
In 1992 David and Sharon Schoo of St. Charles, IL, are arrested at O'Hare
International Airport as they returned from vacation for leaving
their young daughters at home, alone.
In 1992 The United States and Russia announce an agreement on a nuclear arms
reduction treaty.
In 1994 U.S. officials confirm the release in North Korea of Army helicopter
pilot Bobby Hall, 12 days after he was captured in a shootdown in
which co-pilot David Hilemon was killed.
In 1995 Japan's finance minister announces the resignation of the deputy
finance minister over several scandals, including the ministry's
cover-up of trading losses at Daiwa Bank's New York office.
In 1996 Government leaders in Guatemala sign an accord ending 36 years of
civil conflict.
In 1996 North Korea apologizes for sending a spy submarine into South Korean
waters.
In 1997 Hong Kong begins killing 1.4 million chickens to stem the spread of
a mysterious bird flu that had already killed four people.
In 2001 A fire sparked by a fireworks explosion in downtown Lima, Peru,
kills 274 people.
In 2003 Actor Earl Hindman, who'd played the mostly unseen neighbor Wilson
on "Home Improvement," dies at age 61.
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