TODAY IN HISTORY

1946

The first CARE packages, sent by a consortium of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France.

1960

Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1973

The espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.

1998

India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24years . ... A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro.

2010

Conservative leader David Cameron, at age 43, became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200years after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government.

2012

A Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law, William Balfour, of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.

Birthdays

Former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly is 72. Sports columnist Mike Lupica is 70. Actor Martha Quinn is 63. Actor Austin O'Brien is 41.