TODAY IN HISTORY

In 1808: The 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1845: Texas was admitted as the 28th state.

In 1890: The Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as an estimated 300 Sioux Indians were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.

In 1916: James Joyce’s first novel, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” was first published in book form in New York after being serialized in London.

In 1934: Japan formally renounced the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.

In 1940: During World War II, Germany dropped bombs on London, setting off what came to be known as “The Second Great Fire of London.”

In 1957: Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were married in Las Vegas (Gorme died in 2013).

In 1967: Hyundai Motor Co. was founded in Seoul, South Korea.

In 1972: Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, crashed into the Florida Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 101 of the 176 people aboard.

In 1975: A bomb exploded in the main terminal of New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people.

In 1986: Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan died in Sussex, England, at age 92.

In 1992: David and Sharon Schoo of St. Charles, Illinois, were arrested at O’Hare International Airport upon their return from a Mexican vacation for leaving their 4- and 9-year-old daughters at home, alone. (The Schoos pleaded guilty to child neglect; the children were put up for adoption.)

In 2016: The United States struck back at Russia for hacking the U.S. presidential campaign with a sweeping set of punishments targeting Russia’s spy agencies and diplomats; Moscow called the Obama administration “losers” and threatened retaliation.