TODAY IN HISTORY
Today in History
Today is 6XQGD\ $XJ , the 222nd day of 2020. There are 144 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
2n August 9, 2014, Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed 18-yearold Black man, was shot to death by a police officer after Brown tried to take the officer’s firearm. Brown’s death led to violent riots in Ferguson and other U.S. cities.
On this date:
,n 1814, the Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ended the Creek War, was signed in Alabama.
,n 1842, the United States and Canada resolved a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
,n 1910, the U.S. Patent 2ffice granted Alva J. Fisher of the Hurley Machine Co. a patent for an electrically powered washing machine.
,n 1936, Jesse 2wens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin 2lympics as the United States took first place in the 400-meter relay.
,n 1942, British authorities in ,ndia arrested nationalist Mohandas .. *andhi he was released in 1944.
,n 1944, 258 African-American sailors based at Port Chicago, California, refused to load a munitions ship following a cargo vessel explosion that killed 320 men, many of them Black. (Fifty of the sailors were convicted of mutiny, fined and imprisoned.)
,n 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device (“Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
,n 1969, actor Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home cult leader Charles Manson and a group of his followers were later convicted of the crime.
,n 1974, Vice President *erald R. Ford became the nation’s 38th chief executive as President Richard Nixon’s resignation took effect.
,n 1982, a federal judge in Washington ordered John W. Hinckley Jr., who’d been acquitted of shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others by reason of insanity, committed to a mental hospital.
,n 1985, a federal judge in Norfolk, Virginia, found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of seven counts of spying for the Soviet Union. (Walker, who was sentenced to life, died in prison in 2014 at the age of 79.)
,n 2004, 2klahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, addressing a court for the first time, asked victims of the blast for forgiveness as a judge sentenced him to 161 consecutive life sentences.
Ten years ago Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, 86, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate, was killed in a plane crash in the southwestern part of his state while on his way to a fishing trip (four others died in the crash outside Dillingham). A fed-up JetBlue flight attendant, Steven Slater, cursed out a passenger he said had treated him rudely, grabbed a beer and slid down the emergency chute of an Embraer 190 at New York’s John F. .ennedy ,nternational Airport.
2ne year ago President Donald Trump said he had received a “beautiful” three-page letter from North .orean leader .im Jong Un, and predicted there would be more talks to try to resolve the standoff over that country’s nuclear weapons program.