TODAY IN HISTORY

1936

The Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York.

1937

The newly completed

Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County was opened to pedestrian traffic.

1968

The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. O’Brien, upheld the conviction of David O’Brien for destroying his draft card outside a Boston courthouse, ruling that the act was not protected by freedom of speech.

1994

Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.