TODAY IN HISTORY

1845

Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1950

The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

1962

Jackie Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

1968

North Korea seized the U.S. Navy intelligence ship USS Pueblo, commanded by Lloyd “Pete” Bucher, charging its crew with being on a spying mission; one sailor was killed and 82 were taken prisoner.

1973

President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War, and would be formally signed four days later in Paris.

1989

Surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in his native Figueres, Spain, at age 84.

1998

A judge in Fairfax, Virginia, sentenced Aimal Khan Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three other people.

Birthdays

Actress Chita Rivera is 87. Rock musician Bill Cunningham is 70. Singer Anita Baker is 62. Actress Gail O’Grady is 57. Actress Lindsey Kraft is 40.