This Day In History
- 1519 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
- 1870 Italian troops took control of the Papal States, leading to the unification of Italy.
- 1881 Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding James A. Garfield, who had been assassinated.
- 1884 If you thought equal rights for women is a modern concept, think again. On this day, the Equal Rights Party was formed in San Francisco, California. The party nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood as their U.S. presidential candidate and Marietta Snow as Lockwood’s running mate.
- 1947 Former New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia died at age 64.
- 1962 Black student James Meredith was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett.
- 1973 Singer-songwriter Jim Croce died in a plane crash near Natchitoches, La., at age 30.
- 1977 The first wave of Southeast Asian ''boat people'' arrived in San Francisco under a new U.S. resettlement program.
- 1984 A suicide car bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy annex in north Beirut, killing a dozen people.
- 1995 AT&T announced that it would be splitting into three companies: AT&T (communication services); Lucent Technologies (systems and technology communications products); and NCR Corp. (computer business).
- 1998 After playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons, Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles sat out a game against the New York Yankees.
- 1998 Muriel Humphrey Brown, widow of Vice President Hubert Humphrey and his brief successor in the U.S. Senate, died in Minneapolis at age 86.
- 1999 Lawrence Russell Brewer was convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.
- 1999 International peacekeepers landed in East Timor.
- 1999 Raisa Gorbachev, wife of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, died of leukemia at age 67.
- 2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to warrant charges against President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
- 2001 President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress regarding the terrorist attacks and named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to head the new Office of Homeland Security.
- 1878 Upton (Beall) Sinclair (social/political reformer, author)
- 1917 Red (Arnold) Auerbach (Basketball Hall of Famer: Boston Celtics coach: most NBA Championships [9] [1957 & 1959-1966])
- 1934 Sophia Loren (Sofia Scicolone) (Academy Award-winning actress)
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