On this date

In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)

In 1894, hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.

In 1958, movie producer Mike Todd, the husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd’s private plane near Grants, N.M.

In 1968, students at the University of Nanterre in suburban Paris occupied the school’s administration building in a prelude to massive protests in France.

In 1968, the first Red Lobster restaurant opened in Lakeland, Fla.

In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-yearold patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In 1991, New Hampshire high school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, was convicted of murder-conspiracy and being an accomplice to murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Ten years ago: Endeavour’s astronauts embarked on the fifth and final spacewalk of their mission.

Five years ago: The IRS said it was a mistake for employees to have made a $60,000 six-minute training video spoofing “Star Trek” and “Gilligan’s Island.”

One year ago: A Wausau-area Wisconsin man went on a shooting rampage, killing two of his wife’s co-workers, her divorce attorney and a police officer before being shot by police; he died 10 days later in the hospital.