TODAY IN HISTORY

On May 11, 1502, Christopher Columbus left Spain on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.

In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.

In 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.

In 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.

In 1950, President Harry S. Truman formally dedicated the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state.

In 1953, a tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.

In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.

In 1998, a French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency, the euro.