On this date

1542 — The fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery. 1741 — Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania published the first American magazine. “The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies” lasted three issues. 1861 — Abraham Lincoln was officially declared winner of the 1860 presidential election as electors cast their ballots. 1914 — The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP, was founded in New York. 1933 — The Warsaw Convention, governing airlines’ liability for international carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect. 1935 — A jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was later executed.) 1943 — During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was officially established. 1968 — Actress Mae Marsh, known mostly for her silent film work (“The Birth of a Nation”; “Intolerance”), died in Hermosa Beach, California, at age 73. 1974 — Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union. 1988 — The 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 1998 — Dr. David Satcher was sworn in as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States during an Oval Office ceremony. 2016 — Justice Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the U.S. Supreme Court, was found dead at a private residence in the Big Bend area of West Texas; he was 79.

Thought for today ‘To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.’ American political writer (1915-1986) Theodore H. White