From the ArcaMax Publishing, History & Quotes Newsletter:
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In 1876, U.S. Army Gen. George Custer and his force of 208 men were
annihilated by Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux warriors at Little Big Horn
in Montana.
In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command of the U.S.
World War II forces in Europe.
In 1950, North Korean forces invaded South Korea.
In 1951, CBS aired the first color television broadcast. At the time,
no color TV sets were owned by the public.
In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision interpreted as
barring prayer in public schools.
In 1967, with Mick Jagger, Keith Richard and others singing backup,
the Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love" before an international
television audience estimated at 400 million people.
In 1973, White House attorney John Dean told a U.S. Senate committee
that U.S. President Richard Nixon joined in a plot to cover up the
Watergate break-in.
In 1991, Slovenia and Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia,
sparking civil war.
In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's first woman prime
minister.
In 1994, Japan's Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata resigned two months after
taking office rather than face a no-confidence vote by parliament.
In 1996, a truck bomb killed 19 U.S. military personnel in Saudi
Arabia. Several hundred more people were injured.
In 1997, about half of Mir's power supply was knocked out when an
unmanned cargo ship collided with the Russian space station and put a
hole in it.
Also in 1997, Montserrat's Soufriere Hills Volcano, after lying
dormant for 400 years, erupted -- wiping out two-thirds of the
Caribbean island and forcing most of the population to relocate.
In 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in China for a
much-debated visit.
In 2003, the Federal Reserve Board lowered the key federal funds rate,
the overnight loan rate between banks, to 1.0 percent, lowest since
1958.
In 2004, the film "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's critical view of
the invasion of Iraq, broke box office records for a documentary in
its first few days.
In 2005, religious conservative Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was
elected president of Iran in a landslide.
In 2006, Warren Buffett announced plans to give away 85 percent of his
shares in his company, about $37 billion, to charity. Most of that --
some $31 billion -- was earmarked for the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation.
In 2007, a North Korea official said his country was ready to close
its nuclear program.
Also in 2007, suicide bombers killed more than 40 people in Iraq,
including a tribal chief and 11 others in a five-star Baghdad hotel.
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, ruled that the death
penalty is unconstitutional for child rape.
Also in 2008, North Korean officials destroyed a cooling tower at the
Yongbyon nuclear facility as part of the country's pledge to end its
nuclear weapons program.