TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

Sept. 2, 1969

In what some regard as the birth of the Internet, two connected computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed test data through a 15-foot cable.

ON THIS DATE 1945

Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.

1963

Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.

2018

Sen. John McCain was laid to rest on a grassy hill at the U.S. Naval Academy, after a horse-drawn caisson carrying the senator’s casket led a procession of mourners from the academy’s chapel to its cemetery.