TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1974

Seven people, including former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, former Attorney General John Mitchell and former assistant Attorney General Robert Mardian, were indicted on charges of conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with the Watergate break-in.

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1781

The Continental Congress declared the Articles of Confederation to be in force, following ratification by Maryland.

1790

President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first United States Census.

1893

Inventor Nikola Tesla first publicly demonstrated radio during a meeting of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis by transmitting electromagnetic energy without wires.

1914

National Baseball Hall of Fame announcer Harry Caray was born in St. Louis, Mo.

1932

Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.

1954

Four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the spectators’ gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five members of Congress. The United States detonated a dry-fuel hydrogen bomb, codenamed Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

1957

“The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss was released to bookstores by Random House.

1961

President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.