This Day In History
- 1689 William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
- 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France and was banished to the island of Elba.
- 1898 President William McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war against Spain.
- 1899 The treaty ending the Spanish-American War was declared in effect.
- 1921 Iowa became the first state to impose a cigarette tax.
- 1945 American soldiers liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
- 1947 Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history when he played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1970 Apollo 13 blasted off on a mission to the moon that was cut short when an explosion crippled the spacecraft.
- 1979 Idi Amin was deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seized control.
- 1980 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued regulations prohibiting sexual harassment of workers by supervisors.
- 1981 President Reagan returned to the White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
- 1996 Seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who'd hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country, was killed with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyo.
- 2001 Ending an 11-day standoff, China agreed to free the 24 crew members of an American spy plane that had collided with a Chinese fighter plane, killing its pilot.
- 2002 U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, was convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks from businessmen and his own staff.
- 2003 American troops took the northern Iraqi city of Mosul without a fight.
- 1928 Ethel Kennedy (Skakel) (widow of slain U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy)
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