This Day In History
- 1682 French explorer Robert La Salle reached the Mississippi River.
- 1833 The nation's first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, N.H.
- 1939 Singer Marian Anderson performed at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after she was denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
- 1940 Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.
- 1942 American and Philippine defenders on Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces during World War II.
- 1945 National Football League officials made it mandatory for football players to wear socks in all league games.
- 1959 NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
- 1965 The newly built Houston Astrodome featured its first baseball game, an exhibition between the Astros and the New York Yankees.
- 1969 Bob Dylan released the album ''Nashville Skyline.''
- 1992 Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was convicted in Miami of eight drug and racketeering charges.
- 1996 Dan Rostenkowski, the once-powerful House Ways and Means chairman, pleaded guilty to two mail fraud charges in a deal that brought with it a 17-month prison term.
- 1996 President Clinton signed a line-item veto bill into law.
- 2001 American Airlines' parent company acquired bankrupt Trans World Airlines, becoming America's No. 1 carrier.
- 2002 Former Arthur Andersen auditor David B. Duncan pleaded guilty in federal court in Houston to ordering shredding Enron documents, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
- 2003 U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad, seizing one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces and toppling a 40-foot statue of the Iraqi ruler.
- 1883 Frank King (cartoonist: creator of Gasoline Alley cartoon strip; died June 25, 1969)
- 1926 Hugh Hefner (publisher: Playboy magazine)
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