TODAY IN HISTORY

On Sept. 7, 1901, the Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China.

In 1940, Nazi Germany began its eight-month blitz of Britain during WWII with its first air attack.

In 1968, feminists protested outside the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In 1986, Desmond Tutu was installed as the first Black clergyman to lead the Anglican Church in southern Africa.

In 1996, rapper Tupac Shakur was shot and mortally wounded on the Las Vegas Strip.

In 2015, Hillary Clinton, interviewed by The Associated Press, said she did not need to apologize for using a private email account and server while at the State Department because “what I did was allowed.”

In 2020, India’s increasing coronavirus caseload made the Asian giant the world’s second-worst-hit country behind the United States.