On this date

President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Oscar Straus to be Secretary of Commerce and Labor; Straus became the first Jewish cabinet member.

authorities in Florence, Italy, announced that the “Mona Lisa,” stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, had been recovered.

Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town near Omaha, Neb.

Japanese aircraft sank the U.S. gunboat Panay on China’s Yangtze River. (Japan apologized and paid $2.2 million in reparations.)

a United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of the U.N.’s headquarters.

the Senate killed a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against Old Glory.

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national. (Ramirez was convicted and is serving a life prison sentence.)

A bomb exploded inside the West Coast Bank in Woodburn, Ore., killing two law enforcement officers.

Actor-writer-producer Tom O’Laughlin, the Milwaukee native who created “Billy Jack,” died at age 82.

Democrat Doug Jones won Alabama’s special Senate election over Republican Roy Moore, who had denied accusations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls that allegedly took place when he was in his 30s; it was the first Democratic Senate victory in Alabama in a quarter-century, and came despite an endorsement of Moore by President Donald Trump.