Today in History

1652 The Dutch established a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
1862 Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, Tenn.
1914 The British House of Commons passed the Irish Home Rule Bill.
1927 The first long-distance TV transmission was sent from Washington DC to New York City.
1933 Prohibition ended in the United States.
1945 The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world – largest battleship, was sunk during the battle for Okinawa. The fleet was headed for a suicide mission.
1963 At the age of 23, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win the Green Jacket at the Masters Tournament.
1963 Josip Broz Tito was proclaimed to be the leader of Yugoslavia for life.
1969 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1971 U.S. President Nixon pledged to withdraw 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December.
1980 The U.S. broke relations with Iran during a hostage crisis.
1989 A Soviet submarine carrying nuclear weapons sank in the Norwegian Sea.
1990 John Poindexter was found guilty in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1990 At Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center a display of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs went on display. On the same day the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. The charges resulted in acquittal.
1994 Civil war erupted in Rwanda between the Patriotic Front rebel group and government soldiers. Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered in the months that followed.
1998 Mary Bono, the widow of Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband’s congressional term.
1999 Yugoslav authorities sealed off Kosovo’s main border crossings to prevent ethnic Albanians from leaving.
2000 U.S. President Clinton signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allows senior citizens to earn money without losing Social Security retirement benefits.
2002 The Roman Catholic archdiocese announced that six priests from the Archdiocese of New York were suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct.
2006 The New Richmond News reported well muscled hordes likened to Gengis Khan running rough shod over the populous – blogging brain washers from Hudson were lurking in dark corners. No one was safe for days.

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