Interview: ‘Black Hawk Down’ Author Mark Bowden on his new book ‘Hue 1968’

National Archives

Author Mark Bowden discusses the Vietnam War and his new book Hue 1968.

Today in History: Born on June 6

Pierre Corneille, French author.

Nathan Hale, American revolutionary.

John Trumbull, American painter.

Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer (Boris Godunov, The Queen of Spades).

Robert F. Scott, British explorer.

Alexandra, the last Russian Czarina.

Thomas Mann, German novelist and essayist, forced into exile by the Nazis.

Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader.

Bill Dickey, professional baseball player.

Maxine Kumin, poet novelist and children's author.

Bill Moyers, American broadcast journalist, press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson.

Marian Wright Edelman, first African-American woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar, founder of the Children's Defense Fund.