TODAY in HISTORY

1861 — U.S. Army abolishes flogging 1914 — First traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. and E. 105th St., Cleveland)

1924 — Comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” by Harold Gray, debuts

1945 — Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6. in Japan)

1953 — Operation “Big Switch” Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjeom

1962 — Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illegally leaving South Africa

1963 — Britain, the U.S. and the USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty

1964 — Beatles record “Leave My Kitten Alone”

1964 — The U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam

1966 — Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march

1969 — Mariner 7 flies past Mars 1973 — The USSR launches Mars 6 1974 — Joan Jett forms her rock group the Runaways