TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

1986

President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency.

1793

President George Washington held the first Cabinet meeting on record at his Mount Vernon home; attending were Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.

1901

United States Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.

1913

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

1919

Oregon became the first state to tax gasoline, at one cent per gallon.

1964

Muhammad Ali became world heavyweight boxing champion as he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

1983

Playwright Tennessee Williams was found dead in his New York hotel suite; he was 71.

1991

During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

1994

American-born Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein opened fire with an automatic rifle inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims before he was beaten to death by worshippers.

2010

In Vancouver, the Canadian women beat the United States 2-0 for their third straight Olympic hockey title.

2018

China’s official news agency said the country’s ruling Communist Party had proposed scrapping term limits for China’s president, appearing to lay the groundwork for Xi Jinping to rule as president beyond 2023.