The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT 1933
Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.
ALSO ON THIS DATE 1922
The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote.
1939
The Supreme Court, in National Labor Relations Board v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., effectively outlawed sit-down strikes.
1942
The Battle of the Java Sea began during World War
II; Imperial Japanese naval forces scored a decisive victory over the Allies.
1951
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.
1968
At the conclusion of a CBS News special report on the Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite delivered a commentary in which he said the conflict appeared “mired in stalemate.”
1973
Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890massacre of Sioux men, women and children.
1991
Operation Desert Storm came to a conclusion as President George H.W. Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.
2003
Children’s television host Fred Rogers died in Pittsburgh at age 74.
2015
Actor Leonard Nimoy, 83, known for playing Mr. Spock in “Star Trek,” died.