TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1989

The supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.

1765

Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

1882

German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

1955

The Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opened on Broadway.

1958

Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tennessee, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Arkansas.

1975

Muhammad Ali defeated Chuck Wepner with a technical knockout in the 15th round of a fight in Richfield, Ohio.

1976

The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. British war hero Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 88, died in Alton, Hampshire, England.

1980

One of El Salvador’s most respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was shot to death by a sniper as he celebrated Mass in San Salvador.

1988

Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair.

1995

After 20 years, British soldiers stopped routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.