Also on this date
In 1913,
the Federal Reserve System was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.
In 1933,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt restored the civil rights of about 1,500 people who had been jailed for opposing World War I.
In 1941,
during World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese.
In 1962,
Cuba began releasing prisoners from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion under an agreement in which Cuba received more than $50 million worth of food and medical supplies.
In 1968,
82 crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.
In 1972,
a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Nicaragua; the disaster claimed some 5,000 lives.
In 1986,
the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, non-refueled round-theworld flight as it returned safely to Edwards Air Force Base in California.
In 1997,
a federal jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, declining to find him guilty of murder. (Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.)
In 2003,
a jury in Chesapeake, Va., sentenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison, sparing him the death penalty.
Ten years ago:
Mail bombs blamed on anarchists exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, seriously wounding two people.
Five years ago:
Protesters blocked access to a terminal and caused significant holiday traffic delays around Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after staging a Black Lives Matter rally that also briefly shut down part of the Mall of America; the demonstrations were organized to draw attention to the recent police shooting of a Black man in Minneapolis.
One year ago:
A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi royal family; the five were among 11 people who were put on trial over the killing.