1992 | In a Milwaukee courtroom, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced to life in prison. |
1990 | Former US president Ronald Reagan gives videotaped testimony for a second day about the Iran-Contra affair, for the trial of former national security adviser, John Poindexter. |
1988 | Lt. Col. William Higgins, a US officer with the United Nations truce monitoring group, is kidnapped (and later slain) in southern Lebanon. |
1982 | Jazz piano great Thelonious Monk dies of a stroke at age 64. |
1972 | US president Richard Nixon begins his historic trip to mainland China.
Photo shows President Nixon (left) with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai.
(photo credit: NARA) |
1968 | The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens in Springfield, MA. |
1967 | The Beatles record instrumental tracks for Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!, a song that will ultimately appear on their Sergeant Pepper album, at EMI Studios in London.
(photo credit: Capitol Records)
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1947 | The Voice of America radio station begins broadcasting their signal to the USSR. |
1933 | Newsweek magazine begins publication. |
1904 | The Giacomo Puccini opera Madam Butterfly premieres at La Scala. |
1897 | The National Congress of Mothers, later to become the national congress of the PTA, is founded in Washington, DC. |
1865 | The city of Columbia, SC, is set ablaze as Confederate troops evacuate, allowing Union forces to move in, during the US Civil War. |
1801 | The US House of Representatives elects Thomas Jefferson as President, to break the electoral vote tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr, who became vice president. |
1673 | French author and playwright Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) dies in Paris at age 51. |