TODAY IN HISTORY

1876

Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.

1947

“The Diary of a Young Girl,” the personal journal of Anne Frank, a Germanborn Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.

1950

War broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.

1962

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.