TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1967

Rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey, over the police beating of a Black taxi driver; 26 people were killed in the five days of violence that followed.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1543

England’s King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

1862

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill authorizing the Army Medal of Honor.

1909

The House of Representatives joined the Senate in passing the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, allowing for a federal income tax, and submitted it to the states.

1957

President Dwight D. Eisenhower was flown by helicopter from the White House to a secret mountaintop location as part of a drill involving a mock nuclear attack on Washington.

1962

The Rolling Stones played their first-ever gig at The Marquee in London.

1974

President Richard Nixon signed a measure creating the Congressional Budget Office.

1984

Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced his choice of U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his runningmate; Ferraro was the first woman to run for vice president on a major-party ticket.

1991

A Japanese professor (Hitoshi Igarashi) who had translated Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” was found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel’s Italian translator was attacked in Milan.

1994

President Bill Clinton, visiting Germany, went to the eastern sector of Berlin, the first U.S. president to do so since Harry Truman.