TODAY IN HISTORY

1066

Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.

1586

Mary, Queen of Scots, went on trial in England, accused of committing treason against Queen Elizabeth I.

1933

Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.

1944

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel took his own life rather than face trial and certain execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.

1947

U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E. Yeager became the first test pilot to break the sound barrier as he flew the experimental Bell XS-1 rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

1964

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.