On this date

1781 — Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers under the leadership of Governor Felipe de Neve. 1886 — A group of Apache Indians led by Geronimo (also known as Goyathlay, “One Who Yawns”) surrendered to Gen. Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona. 1888 — George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film box camera, and registered his trademark: “Kodak.” 1948 — Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicated after nearly six decades of rule for health reasons. 1951 — President Harry S. Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco in the first live, coast-to-coast television broadcast. 1957 — Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus used Arkansas National Guardsmen to prevent nine black students from entering all-white Central High School in Little Rock. Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel. 1967 — Detroit TV station WKBD aired an interview with Michigan Gov. George Romney in which the Republican presidential hopeful attributed his previous support for the war in Vietnam to a “brainwashing” he’d received from U.S. officials during a 1965 visit. 1971 — An Alaska Airlines jet crashed near Juneau, killing all 111 people on board. 1972 — U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a seventh gold medal at the Munich Olympics in the 400-meter medley relay. 1987 — A Soviet court convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from his daring flight to Moscow’s Red Square, and sentenced him to four years in a labor camp. (Rust was released in August 1988.) 1998 — Internet services company Google filed for incorporation in California. 2007 — Toy maker Mattel Inc. recalled 800,000 lead-tainted, Chinese-made toys worldwide, a third major recall in just over a month.