TODAY IN HISTORY

1647

Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

1858

Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.

1927

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

1935

The Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

1946

The first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France.

1953

A tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114lives.

2010

Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200years after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.