TODAY IN HISTORY

1543

England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

1862

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Army Medal of Honor.

1909

The House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states.

1957

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was flown by helicopter from the White House to a secret mountaintop location as part of a drill involving a mock nuclear attack on Washington.

1962

The Rolling Stones played their firstever gig at The Marquee in London.

1967

Rioting erupted in Newark, N.J., over the police beating of a Black taxi driver; 26 people were killed in the five days of violence that followed.

2005

Prince Albert II of Monaco acceded to the throne of a 700-year-old dynasty.