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RON ZIEGLER, Today’s highlight in history
On June 17, 1972, five burglars were arrested inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington, D.C.’s Watergate complex. The break-in and the arrests were the start of the investigation that led to President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation two years later.
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In 1775, the Revolutionary War Battle of Bunker Hill resulted in a costly victory for the British, who suffered heavy losses.
In 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor aboard the French ship Isère.
In 1928, Amelia Earhart embarked on a trans-Atlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales with pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, becoming the first woman to make the trip as a passenger.
In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the SmootHawley Tariff Act, which boosted U.S. tariffs — and prompted foreign retaliation.
In 1967, China successfully tested its first thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb.
In 1992, President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a breakthrough arms-reduction agreement.
In 1994, after leading police on a slow-speed chase on Southern California freeways, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was later acquitted in a criminal trial but held liable in a civil trial.)
In 2015, nine people were shot to death in a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C.; suspect Dylann Roof was arrested the following morning. (Roof has since been convicted of federal hate crimes and sentenced to death; he later pleaded guilty to state murder charges and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.)
Ten years ago: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new government and outlawed Hamas militias. Five years ago: Rodney King, 47, whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police sparked widespread outrage and who struggled with addiction and repeated arrests, died in Rialto, Calif., in an apparent accidental drowning.
One year ago: President Barack Obama, his wife and their daughters traveled to Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico in a trip designed to draw attention to America’s natural wonders. Associated Press