Today in History

U.S. halts a loan to Chile in protest over human rights abuses.

It is reported that the United States has agreed to sell 42 F-4 Phantom jets to Israel.

Two Apollo 14 astronauts walk on the moon.

U.S. troops divide Viet Cong at Hue while the Saigon government claims they will arm loyal citizens.

The Soviets launch Sputnik V, the heaviest satellite to date at 7.1 tons.

New York adopts three-colored traffic lights.

The Soviet Union and Great Britain reject terms for an American trusteeship over Japanese Pacific Isles.

American and French troops destroy German forces in the Colmar Pocket in France.

John Guare, playwright (The House of Blue Leaves).

Hank Aaron, American hall of fame baseball player.

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, longtime New York Times publisher.

William Larned’s steel-framed tennis racquet gets its first test.

The Soviets proclaim separation of church and state.

U.S. Congress nullifies President Woordrow Wilson‘s veto of the Immigration Act; literacy tests are required.

Robert Hofstadter, physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1961 for his studies of neutrons and protons.

Sir Alan Hodgin, English physiologist and biophysicist.

Adlai E. Stevenson II, Illinois governor and presidential candidate.

Ralph McGill, editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution.

Lafayette Benedict Mendel, biochemist.

The three-day Battle of Hatcher’s Run, Va., begins.

Federal forces occupy Jackson, Miss.

Belle Starr, Western outlaw.

The first Pacific Coast newspaper, Oregon Spectator, is published.

Dwight L. Moody, evangelist, founder of the Moody Bible Institute.

Sir Robert Peel, British prime minister.

Sweden recognizes U.S. independence.

Martinique, a major French base in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, surrenders to the British.

John Witherspoon, Declaration of Independence signer.

A ship from Bristol, the Lyon, arrives with provisions for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Henry II of France and Philip of Spain sign the truce of Vaucelles.