History

1566 French astrologer, physician and professed prophesier Nostradamus died in Salon.

1917 Rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as white mobs attacked Black residents; nearly 50 people, mostly Blacks, are believed to have died in the violence.

1937 Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator.

1961 Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Idaho.

1963 President John F. Kennedy met Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, the first meeting between a Catholic US chief executive and the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

1964 President Lyndon B.

Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress.

1987 18 Mexican immigrants were found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in what authorities called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man survived.

2018 Rescue divers in Thailand found 12 boys and their soccer coach, who had been trapped by flooding as they explored a cave more than a week earlier.