TODAY IN HISTORY

1922

Rebecca L. Felton, a Georgia Democrat, was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.

1931

The Universal horror film “Frankenstein,” starring Boris Karloff as the monster and Colin Clive as his creator, was first released.

1967

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.

1973

President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt revealed the existence of an 18-1⁄2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.

1980

87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1992

A three-day tornado outbreak that struck 13 states began in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern U.S.

1995

Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end three and a-half years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Birthdays

Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 86. Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 76. Actor Goldie Hawn is 75. Rock musician Brian Ritchie (The Violent Femmes) is 60. Rock musician Alex James (Blur) is 52. Actor Marina de Tavira is 47. Actor Jena Malone is 36.