The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT April 6, 1917
The United States entered World War I as the House joined the Senate in approving a declaration of war against Germany that was then signed by President Woodrow Wilson.
ALSO ON THIS DATE 1830
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York.
1886
The Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia, was incorporated.
1896 The first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece. 1909
American explorers Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole.
1947
The first Tony Awards were held in New York; this event, focusing on individual achievement rather than specific works, honored Ingrid Bergman, Helen Hayes, Jose Ferrer, Fredric March and playwright Arthur Miller, among others.
1954
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., responding to CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s broadside against him on “See It Now,” said in remarks filmed for the program that Murrow had, in the past, “engaged in propaganda for Communist causes.”
1965
The United States launched Intelsat I, also known as the “Early Bird” communications satellite, into geosynchronous orbit.