On this date
In 1815,
the United States and Britain exchanged the instruments of ratification for the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.
In 1863,
the International Red Cross was founded in Geneva.
In 1864,
during the Civil War, the Union ship USS Housatonic was rammed and sunk in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, by the Confederate hand-cranked submarine HL Hunley in the first naval attack of its kind; the Hunley also sank.
In 1933,
Newsweek magazine was first published under the title “News-Week.”
In 1964,
the Supreme Court, in Wesberry v. Sanders, ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population.
In 1986,
Johnson & Johnson announced it would no longer sell over-the-counter medications in capsule form, following the death of a woman who had taken a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule.
In 1996,
world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue,” winning a six-game match in Philadelphia. (Kasparov lost to Deep Blue in a rematch in 1997.)
President Barack Obama marked the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, saying it had staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job.
Five years ago:
Vice President Joe Biden opened a White House summit on countering extremism and radicalization, saying the U.S. needed to ensure that immigrants were included in the fabric of American society to prevent violent ideologies from taking root at home.
One year ago:
In an interview airing on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said a “crime may have been committed” when President Donald Trump fired the head of the FBI and tried to undermine an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Associated Press