Today in History

1517 – Spanish explorer Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba sets sail from Cuba to ‘‘discover’’ Mexico. 1587 – Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded after being accused of plotting murder of Elizabeth I. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War begins. 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated. 1915 – The Birth of a Nation, Civil War epic by DW Griffith, premieres in Los Angeles; a New Zealand warship is ambushed by Ottoman