TODAY IN HISTORY

Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile.

Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes.

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland as “damned lies” and vowed not to resign — which he ended up doing.

the Boston Roman Catholic archdiocese offered $55 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits stemming from alleged sex abuse by priests. (The archdiocese later settled for $85 million.)

Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Hispanic justice.

singer Glen Campbell died in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 81.