TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1941

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

1882

President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.

1894

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

1976

Principal photography for the first “Star Wars” movie, directed by George Lucas, began in Tunisia.

1987

A garbage barge, carrying 3,200 tons of refuse, left Islip, New York, on a sixmonth 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.

1991

High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of recruiting her teenage lover and his friends to kill her husband, Gregory, was convicted in Exeter, New Hampshire, of murder-conspiracy and being an accomplice to murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

1993

Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.

1997

Tara Lipinski, at age 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest ladies’ world figure skating champion in Lausanne, Switzerland.

2010

Google Inc. stopped censoring the internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland to Hong Kong.

2019

Special counsel Robert Mueller closed his Russia investigation with no new charges, delivering his final report to Justice Department officials. Former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim is 91. Evangelist broadcaster Pat Robertson is 91. Actor William Shatner is 90. Actor M. Emmet Walsh is 86. CNN newscaster Wolf Blitzer is 73. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 73. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 69. Actor Matthew Modine is 62. Actor-comedian Keeganmichael Key is 50. Actor Guillermo Diaz is 46. Actor Cole Hauser is 46. Actor Reese Witherspoon is 45.