TODAY IN HISTORY

1789

New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1945

22 former Nazi officials went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

1947

Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.

1952

President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower announced his selection of John Foster Dulles to be his secretary of state.

1967

The U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.

1969

The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout. A group of American Indian activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

1985

The first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was officially released.