This Day In History
- 1788 The U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.
- 1834 Cyrus Hall McCormick received a patent for his reaping machine.
- 1932 After heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey, Schmeling's manager, Joe Jacobs, exclaimed: ''We was robbed!''
- 1940 Richard M. Nixon married Thelma Catherine ‘Pat’ Ryan this day.
- 1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pope took the name Paul VI.
- 1973 The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.
- 1977 Menachem Begin became Israel's sixth prime minister.
- 1982 A jury in Washington, D.C., found John Hinckley Jr. innocent by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Reagan and three others.
- 1985 Scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.
- 1989 The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag as a form of political protest is protected by the First Amendment.
- 1997 The Women's National Basketball Association made its debut as the New York Liberty defeated the Los Angeles Sparks 67-57.
- 2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., indicted 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
- 2001 Actor Carroll O'Connor died at age 76.
- 2001 Blues musician John Lee Hooker died at age 80.
- 1731 Martha Washington (Dandridge Custis) (first First Lady of the U.S., wife of 1st U.S. President George Washington; made a mean cherry pie, we hear; died May 22, 1802)
- 1947 Meredith Baxter Birney (actress: Family Ties)
- 1947 Michael Gross (actor: Family Ties)
- 1982 Prince William (William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor) (Prince William of Wales: first future king of England born in a hospital, first to wear disposable diapers, first to attend nursery school; son of England’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana)
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