TODAY IN HISTORY

1807

Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested for treason.

1887

Thomas Edison received a patent for the phonograph.

1942

President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, allowing the internment of Japanese-Americans.

1945

About 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima.

1963

Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” was published, sparking a new wave of feminism in the United States.