On This Day

EVENTS

In 1789, Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, later renamed the Department of State.

In 1953, a Korean War armistice was signed after three years of fighting.

In 1974, the House of Representatives voted to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Nixon.

In 1996, a bomb exploded in an Atlanta park during the Summer Olympics, killing one person.

Hilaire Belloc (18701953), writer/historian; Leo Durocher (1905-1991), baseball player/manager;

Norman Lear (1922- ), TV producer/writer; Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018), actor;

Bobbie Gentry (1944- ), singer-songwriter; Peggy Fleming (1948- ), figure skater; Triple H (1969- ), professional wrestler; Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970- ), actor; Maya Rudolph (1972), actress; Alex Rodriguez (1975- ), baseball player;

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977- ), actor; Jordan

Spieth (1993- ), golfer.

FACT

The Republic of Korea (South Korea) refused to sign the armistice agreement that ended the Korean War. It has never made a peace treaty with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea).