TODAY IN HISTORY

1943

The nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.

1770

Marie Antoinette, age 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

1866

Congress authorized minting of the first five-cent piece, also known as the “Shield nickel.”

1929

The first Academy Awards were presented. “Wings” won “best production,” while Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor were named best actor and best actress.

1939

The federal government began its first food stamp program in Rochester, N.Y.

1957

Federal agent Eliot Ness, who organized “The Untouchables” team that took on gangster Al Capone, died in Coudersport, Potter County, at age 54.