TODAY IN HISTORY

1945

President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany's forces had surrendered, and that “the flags of freedom fly all over Europe.”

1973

Militant American Indians who had held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.

1984

The Soviet Union announced it would boycott the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

1996

South Africa took another step from apartheid to democracy by adopting a constitution that guaranteed equal rights for Blacks and whites.

2003

The Senate unanimously endorsed adding to NATO seven former communist nations: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

2017

A suspect, Aaron Juan Saucedo, was arrested in a string of serial killings that terrified a Phoenix neighborhood, a huge break in a case that involved nine deaths and a dozen separate shootings.