TODAY IN HISTORY

1908

Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile to the market.

1949

Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing; A 42-day strike by the United Steelworkers of America began over the issue of retirement benefits.

1957

The motto “In God We Trust” began appearing on U.S. paper currency.

1982

Sony began selling the first commercial compact disc player, the CDP-101, in Japan.

1994

National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.

2017

A gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history; the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before officers arrived.