TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT August 30, 1967

The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1862

Confederate forces won victories against the Union at the Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia, and the Battle of Richmond in Kentucky.

1945

U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan to set up Allied occupation headquarters.

1963

The “Hot Line” communications link between Washington and Moscow went into operation.

1983

Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off aboard the Challenger.

1986

Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, as a spy a week after American officials arrested Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, on espionage charges in New York.

1989

A federal jury in New York found “hotel queen” Leona Helmsley guilty of income tax evasion, but acquitted her of extortion.

1997

Americans received word of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul.

2002

With just hours to spare, baseball averted a strike; it was the first time since 1970 that players and owners had agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement without a work stoppage.

2007

In a serious breach of nuclear security, a B-52 bomber armed with six nuclear warheads flew cross-country unnoticed; the Air Force later punished 70 people.