This Day In History
- 1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.
- 1834 The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
- 1854 Britain and France declared war on Russia during the Crimean War.
- 1898 The Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen, and therefore could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1930 The cities of Constantinople and Angora changed names to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.
- 1939 The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
- 1941 Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowned herself near her home in England at age 59.
- 1943 Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died at age 70.
- 1964 The most violent earthquake (9.2) in the United States struck Prince William Sound, Alaska.
- 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.
1979 Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.- 1987 Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music,'' died in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82.
- 2000 Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person.
- 2002 The Arab League, meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, agreed on a peace plan that offered Israel normal relations in exchange for a full withdrawal from war-won lands and a Palestinian state.
- 1944 Ken Howard (actor: The White Shadow, The Thorn Birds, Country Girl, Oscar)
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