This Day In History
- 1593 France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1866 Ulysses S. Grant was named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.
- 1868 Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
- 1946 The United States detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device.
- 1952 Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
- 1978 Louise Joy Brown, the first baby conceived by in-vitro fertilization, was born in Oldham, England.
- 1984 Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
- 1994 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old state of war.
- 1995 A U.N. war crimes tribunal indicted Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, army commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, and 22 other Serbs for war crimes.
- 1997 K.R. Narayanan became the first member of an ''untouchable'' Dalits caste to become India's president.
- 2000 A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.
- 2000 Texas Gov. George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.
- 2003 President George W. Bush ordered U.S. troops into position off the coast of Liberia to support the arrival of a West African peacekeeping force.
- 1775 Anna Harrison (Symmes) (wife of 9th U.S. President Benjamin Harrison; died Feb 25, 1864)
- 1894 Walter (Andrew) Brennan (Academy Award-winning actor)
- 1924 Estelle Getty (actress: Golden Girls)
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