TODAY IN HISTORY
1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland. 1858: Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
1927: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
1935: The Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.
1946: The first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France.
1953: A tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
1960: Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1973: The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
1981: Legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36 of acral lentiginous melanoma, a skin cancer that is rare but the most common type found among people of color.
1996: An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
2010: Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.
2020: Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to tweets containing disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
2022: The Senate fell far short in a rushed effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster. The move came after a draft report from the Supreme Court overturning the 50-year-old ruling. (The 6-3 decision would be issued essentially as drafted the following month.)
2023: Manhattan prosecutors said they would bring criminal charges against a man accused of using a deadly chokehold on an unruly passenger aboard a New York City subway train.