Today in History

Two students enter Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and open fire with multiple firearms, killing 13 students and teachers, wounding 25 and eventually shooting themselves.

U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War.

The New Orleans Citizens Committee gives free one-way ride to blacks to move North.

Operation Little Switch begins in Korea, the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war.

General Douglas MacArthur addresses a joint session of Congress after being relieved by President Harry Truman.

Soviet troops begin their attack on Berlin.

Pierre Laval, the premier of Vichy France, in a radio broadcast, establishes a policy of “true reconciliation with Germany.”

The first electron microscope is demonstrated.

Alex Muller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist.

The Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from the Soviets.

The first National League game is played at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park. The park was renamed Cubs Park in 1920 and Wrigley Field, for the Chicago Cubs owner, in 1926.

Joan Miró, Spanish painter.

Adolf Hitler, Fascist dictator of Nazi Germany (1933-1945).

The first mobile home (horse-drawn) is used in a journey from London to Cyprus.