TODAY IN HISTORY

1765: The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)

1882: President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.

1894: Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played; home team Montreal defeated Ottawa, 3-1.

1941: The Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation.

1945: The Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt.

1963: The Beatles’ debut album, “Please Please Me,” was released in the United Kingdom by Parlophone.

1978: Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1988: Both houses of Congress overrode President Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.

1993: Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip.