TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT May 31, 1921

A race riot erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as white mobs began looting and leveling the affluent black district of Greenwood over reports a black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator.

ON THIS DATE 1859

The Big Ben clock tower in London went into operation, chiming for the first time.

2005

Breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as “Deep Throat,” the secret Washington Post source during the Watergate scandal.