TODAY IN HISTORY
On May 8, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced on radio that Nazi Germany’s forces had surrendered.
In 1973, militant American Indians who had held
the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrendered.
In 1978, David R. Berkowitz pleaded guilty to murder, attempted murder and assault in connection with the “Son of Sam” shootings.
In 1996, South Africa took another step from apartheid to democracy by adopting a constitution
that guaranteed equal rights for Blacks and whites.
President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear accord with Iran.
In 2018,
the government reported that 20 million Americans had lost their jobs in April amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
In 2020,