Also on this date
the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.
In 1935,
In 1943,
during World War II, U.S. forces landed on the Aleutian island of Attu, which was held by the Japanese; the Americans took the island 19 days later.
In 1947,
B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.
In 1973,
the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
In 1981,
legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.
In 1998,
a French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency, the euro.
In 2006,
lawmakers demanded answers after a USA TODAY report that the National Security Agency was secretly collecting records of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls; President George W. Bush sought to assure Americans their civil liberties were being “fiercely protected.”
Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.
The NFL came down hard on its biggest star and its championship team, suspending Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady for the first four games of the season, fining the New England Patriots $1 million and taking away two draft picks as punishment for deflating footballs used in the AFC title game.
Gay rights activists organizing on social media held an unauthorized march down eight blocks of one of the main streets in Cuba’s capital before being stopped by police.
Associated Press