This Day In History
- 1847 Newspaperman Joseph Pulitzer was born in Hungary.
- 1849 Walter Hunt of New York City patented the safety pin.
- 1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
- 1912 The luxury liner Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage.
- 1925 ''The Great Gatsby,'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published.
- 1932 German president Paul von Hindenburg was re-elected; Adolf Hitler came in second in the voting.
- 1959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito married a commoner, Michiko Shoda.
- 1963 The nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher and its crew of 129 was lost off Cape Cod, Mass.
- 1972 Some 70 nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, signed an agreement banning biological warfare.
- 1974 Golda Meir announced her resignation as prime minister of Israel.
- 1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.
- 1992 Financier Charles Keating Jr. was sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for swindling investors when his Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed. (The convictions were later overturned).
- 1992 Comedian Sam Kinison was killed in a car crash at age 38.
- 1996 President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique that opponents call ''partial-birth'' abortion.
- 1998 Negotiators in Northern Ireland reached a landmark settlement that called for Protestants and Catholics to share power.
- 2001 Republican Jane Swift took office as the first female governor of Massachusetts.
- 2001 The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
- 2002 Eight Israelis were killed by a suicide bomber aboard a bus in Haifa.
- 2003 The House passed a bill creating a national Amber Alert system and strengthening child pornography laws.
- 1829 William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army; author: In Darkest England, The Way Out; died Aug 20, 1912)
- 1847 Joseph Pulitzer (publisher: St. Louis Dispatch, New York World; died in 1911: his will left $2 million for establishment of school of journalism at Columbia Univ. and a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism; died Oct 29, 1911)
- 1915 Harry Morgan (Bratsburg) (Emmy Award-winning actor: M*A*S*H [1979-80]; Dragnet, You Can?t Take It with You, Pete and Gladys, HEC Ramsey, December Bride, The D.A., Aftermash)
- 1951 Steven Seagal (actor: Executive Decision, Under Siege series, On Deadly Ground, Out for Justice, Marked for Death, Hard to Kill, Above the Law)
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