TODAY IN HISTORY

On May 6, 1937, the airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.

In 1941, Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership.

In 1994, former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he had sexually harassed her in 1991.

In 2006, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the last American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died at age 99.

In 2010, a computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.

kidnap-rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing separately about a decade earlier, were rescued from a house just south of downtown Cleveland.

In 2013,