TODAY IN HISTORY

1765

Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

1882

German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

1913

New York’s Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway.

1958

Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tennessee, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. (Presley underwent basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, before being shipped off to Germany.)

1965

Ranger 9, a lunar probe launched three days earlier by NASA, crashed into the moon (as planned) after sending back more than 5,800 video images.

1976

The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahl-deez’) ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.

1995

After 20 years, British soldiers stopped routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1999

NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country. Thirty-nine people were killed when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel in France and burned for two days.

2002

At the 74th Academy Awards, Halle Berry became the first Black performer to win a Best Actress Oscar for her work in “Monster’s Ball,” while Denzel Washington became the second Black actor, after Sidney Poitier, to win in the best actor category for “Training Day.” “A Beautiful Mind” won four Oscars, including best picture and best director for Ron Howard.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor William Smith is

88. Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie is 82. Former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire is 74. Rock musician Lee Oskar is 73. Singer Nick Lowe is

72. Rock musician Dougie Thomson (Supertramp) is

70. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is 70. Comedian Louie Anderson is 68. Actor Donna Pescow is 67. Actor Robert Carradine is 67. Sen. Mike Braun, R-indiana, is 67.