TODAY IN HISTORY
1821
Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
1925
Schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law that prohibited teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was found guilty, but his conviction was later set aside.)
1945
In the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.
1961
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7.
1981
Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands died at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland on his 66th day without food.
2009
Texas health officials confirmed the first death of a U.S. resident with swine flu.
Birthdays
Actor Pat Carroll is 95. Country singer-musician Roni Stoneman is 84. Comedian-actor Michael Palin is 79. Actor Melinda Culea is 67. Rock singer Ian McCulloch is 63. TV personality Kyan Douglas is 52. Actor Vincent Kartheiser is 43. Soul singer Adele is 34. Figure skater Nathan Chen is 23.