TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1894

Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1765

The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax.

1820

U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur was killed in a duel with Commodore James Barron near Washington, D.C.

1934

The first Masters Tournament opened under the title “Augusta National Invitation Tournament,” which was won three days later by Horton Smith.

1941

The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.

1968

President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the commander of American forces in Vietnam, would leave that post to become the U.S. Army’s new chief of staff. Students at the University of Nanterre in suburban Paris occupied the school’s administration building in a prelude to massive protests in France that began the following May. The first Red Lobster restaurant opened in Lakeland, Florida.

1978

Karl Wallenda, the 73-yearold patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1987

A garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, New York, on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload.

1988

Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.