TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1869

Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.

ALSO ON THIS DATE: 1890

Comedian Groucho Marx was born Julius Marx in New York.

1919

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side.

1941

During World War II, German armies launched an all-out drive against Moscow; Soviet forces succeeded in holding onto their capital.

1944

German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed.

1967

Thurgood Marshall was sworn as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as the court opened its new term.

1970

One of two chartered twinengine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31of the 40 people on board.

1984

Richard W. Miller became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage.

1986

The Senate joined the House in voting to override President Reagan’s veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa.

2002

The Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks began, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks.

2005

A tour boat, the Ethan Allen, capsized on New York’s Lake George, killing 20 elderly passengers.