Today In History...
In 1540 King Henry VIII of England marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
(The marriage lasted about six months and ended in divorce.)
In 1759 George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis are married.
In 1838 Samuel Morse makes the first public demonstration of the telegraph
in Morristown, New Jersey.
In 1893 The Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with the east coast.
In 1912 New Mexico becomes the 47th U.S. state.
In 1914 The stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch is founded.
In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president, dies at age 60.
In 1930 First diesel engine automobile trip is completed.
In 1936 Barbara Hanley becomes Canada's first woman mayor.
In 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "Four Freedoms" speech
in which he outlines four goals: freedom of speech; freedom of
religion; freedom from want; freedom from fear.
In 1942 The first around-the-world commercial airplane flight is made by
the Pan American Airways "Pacific Clipper."
In 1945 George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye, New York.
In 1950 Britain recognizes the Communist government of China.
In 1963 "Wild Kingdom" premieres on NBC-TV.
In 1967 U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Deckhouse,
an offensive in the Mekong River delta.
In 1982 Truck driver William G. Bonin is convicted in Los Angeles as the
"freeway killer" who tortured and murdered 10 young men and boys in
Southern California.
In 1983 President Reagan signs a bill boosting the federal gasoline tax by a
nickel to 9 cents per gallon, in order to raise money for road
repair and transportation needs.
In 1984 The first test tube quadruplets are born in Australia.
In 1984 Texaco reaches an agreement to acquire Getty Oil Company, resulting
in a lawsuit from Pennzoil, which charged Texaco had wrongly
interfered in Pennzoil's merger agreement with Getty.
In 1986 One person dies and 100 are hospitalized when a cylinder of nuclear
waste bursts open at the Kerr-McGee Plant in Gore, Oklahoma.
In 1987 Members of the U.S. Senate vote, 88-4, to establish an 11-member
panel to hold public hearings on the Iran-Contra affair.
In 1988 The USSR announces it will withdraw an estimated 115,000 soldiers
from Afghanistan in the coming year.
In 1989 The U.S. presents photographic evidence to the UN to justify the
downing of two Libyan jet fighters as self-defense, evidence the
Libyan ambassador said was faked.
In 1992 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calls on surgeons to stop
using silicone gel breast implants because of safety questions.
In 1992 The U.S. joins the U.N. Security Council in condemning Israel's
planned deportation of 12 Palestinians.
In 1993 Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev dies in Paris at age 54.
In 1993 Authorities in northwest Nevada rescue Jennifer Stolpa and her
infant son, Clayton, after Mrs. Stolpa's husband, James, succeeded
in reaching help following the family's 8-day ordeal in the
snow-covered desert.
In 1994 U.S. Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right
knee by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
In 1994 President Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, dies in Hot Springs,
AR, at age 70.
In 1996 President Clinton offers a 7-year balanced-budget plan using
Congressional Budget Office figures.
In 1997 House Speaker Newt Gingrich meets behind closed doors with
Republican lawmakers, answering questions about admitted ethics
violations.
In 1998 President Clinton unveils a proposal to offer Medicare coverage to
thousands of uninsured Americans between the ages of 55 to 64.
In 2001 Congress formally certifies George W. Bush as the winner of the
2000 presidential election.
In 2002 Argentina announces the devaluation of its peso, ending a policy
pegging the currency one-to-one with the U.S. dollar.
In 2003 Thousands of U.S. Marines, sailors and soldiers head for the
Persian Gulf region for the war with Iraq.
In 2004 Hitting star Paul Molitor and reliever Dennis Eckersley are elected
to Baseball's Hall of Fame.
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