Today in History

Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.

Operation Junction City becomes the largest U.S. operation in Vietnam.

Moscow warns the U.S. that an attack on Cuba would mean war.

A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S.

U.S. is to install 60 Thor nuclear missiles in Britain.

French forces evacuate Hoa Binh in Indochina.

The Atomic Energy Commission discloses information about the first atom-powered airplane.

Jonathan Demme, film director (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia).

President Franklin Roosevelt orders Gen. Douglas MacArthur to leave the Philippines.

All plane flights over the White House are barred because they are disturbing President Roosevelt‘s sleep.

Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Senator, brother of John F. Kennedy.

Pope Pius rejects Mussolini‘s offer of aid to the Vatican.

Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator.

Columbia University declares radio education a success.