This Day In History
- 1609 English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.
- 1880 Author and journalist H.L. Mencken was born in Baltimore.
- 1918 U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launched an attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France, during World War I.
- 1938 In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
- 1953 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
- 1943 German paratroopers took Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held by the Italian government.
- 1944 U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
- 1986 Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, was kidnapped; he was released in December 1991.
- 1992 Police in Peru captured Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman.
- 2000 Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
- 2001 President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks ''acts of war'' and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
- 2002 President George W. Bush told skeptical world leaders at the United Nations to confront the ''grave and gathering danger'' of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, or to stand aside as the United States acted.
- 2002 Three former Tyco International Ltd. executives were charged with looting the conglomerate of hundreds of millions of dollars; all three pleaded innocent at their arraignment in New York.
- 1818 Richard Gatling (inventor: Gatling gun; died Feb 26, 1903)
- 1942 Linda Gray (actress: Dallas)
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