TODAY IN HISTORY
1775: Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning colonists that British Regular troops were approaching.
1831: The University of Alabama in Tus
caloosa was officially opened. 1865: Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman near Durham Station in North Carolina.
1906: A devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000. 1910: Suffragists showed up at the U.S.
Capitol with half a million signatures demanding that women be given the right to vote.
1955: Physicist Albert Einstein died in
Princeton, New Jersey, at age 76. 1966: Bill Russell was named player-coach of the Boston Celtics, becoming the NBA’s first Black coach. 1978: The Senate approved the Panama Canal Treaty, providing for the complete turnover of control of the waterway to Panama on the last day of 1999.
1983: 63 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, by a suicide bomber.
1995: Quarterback Joe Montana retired
from professional football.
2015: A ship believed to be carrying more than 800 migrants from Africa sank in the Mediterranean off Libya; only about 30 people were rescued. 2019: The final report from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was made public; it outlined Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election but did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government. (Mueller offered no conclusion on the question of whether the president obstructed justice.)