On this date

In 1862,

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

In 1957,

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

In 1960,

the Etch A Sketch Magic Screen drawing toy, invented by French electrician Andre Cassagnes, was first produced by the Ohio Art Co.

In 1962,

The Rolling Stones played their first-ever gig at The Marquee in London.

In 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.

In 1984,

Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running-mate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.

In 2001,

Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement with the city and its police union.

Ten years ago:

Angelina Jolie gave birth at a hospital on the French Riviera to twins Knox and Vivienne.

Five years ago:

A train carrying hundreds of passengers derailed outside Paris; at least six people were killed and dozens injured.

One year ago:

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, Christopher Wray, told a Senate panel that he did not believe that a special counsel investigation into possible ties between Russia and the Trump campaign was a “witch hunt,” as Trump had labeled it.