TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1967

The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1797

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, creator of “Frankenstein,” was born in London. 1861

Union Gen. John C. Fremont instituted martial law in Missouri and declared slaves there to be free. 1945

U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Japan to set up Allied occupation headquarters. 1983

Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first Black American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off aboard the Challenger. 1986

Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, as a spy a week after American officials arrested Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet employee of the United Nations, on espionage charges in New York. 1993 1997

Americans received word of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul. 2002

With just hours to spare, baseball averted a strike; it was the first time since 1970 that players and owners had agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement without a work stoppage. 2005

A day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floods were covering 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.

“The Late Show with David Letterman” premiered on CBS-TV.