TODAY IN HISTORY

1587: Mary, Castle Queen in England of Scots, after was she beheaded was implicated at Fotheringhay in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. 1693:

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1862: The Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, ended in victory for Union forces led by Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.

1910: The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.

1922: President Warren G. Harding had a radio installed in the White House.

1924: The first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, was put to death.

1952: Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed her accession to the British throne following the death of her father, King George VI.

1968: Three college students were killed in a confrontation between demonstrators and highway patrolmen at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg in the wake of protests over a whitesonly bowling alley.

1989: A chartered Boeing 707 filled with Italian tourists slammed into a fog-covered mountain in the Azores, killing 144 people.

1993: General Motors sued NBC, alleging that “Dateline NBC” had rigged two car-truck crashes to show that 1973-to-87 GM pickups were prone to fires in side impact crashes. NBC settled the lawsuit the following day and apologized for its “unscientific demonstration.”

2018: The federal government stumbled into a shutdown that would end by morning, its second in less than a month, as rogue Senate Republicans blocked a speedy vote on a massive, bipartisan, budget-busting spending deal.

2018: For the second time in a week, the Dow Jones industrials plunged by more than 1,000 points as a sell-off in the stock market deepened.