TODAY IN HISTORY

1862

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. (It was declared ratified in February 1913.)

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.

1994

President Bill Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first U.S. president to do so since Harry Truman.

2005

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

2019

The major U.S. stock indexes closed at record highs, with the S&P 500 ending above 3,000 for the first time.