TODAY IN HISTORY

1898

Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson – better known as Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll – died in Guildford, Surrey, England, less than two weeks before his 66th birthday.

1943

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle opened a wartime conference in Casablanca.

1967

The Sixties’ “Summer of Love” unofficially began with a “Human Be-in” involving tens of thousands of young people at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

1969

Some 27 people aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, off Hawaii, were killed when a rocket warhead exploded, setting off a fire and additional explosions.

1989

President Ronald Reagan delivered his 331st and final weekly White House radio address, telling listeners, “Believe me, Saturdays will never seem the same. I’ll miss you.”