Today in History

A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing six before committing suicide.

The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, goes on trial.

Croatian forces capture the city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, during Operation Storm.

Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King.

President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers.

Ami Foster, television actress (Punky Brewster); nominated eight times for Young Actress Award.

President Richard Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons.

President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation for the Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North Vietnam.

Actress Marilyn Monroe dies under mysterious circumstances.

The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas.

The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in the Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union.

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

Richard G. Kleindienst, one of the key officials who helped elect Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1969.

Mustafa Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt.