Today in History

Coalition forces liberate Kuwait after seven months of occupation by the Iraqi army.

Debi Thomas becomes the first African American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics.

U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Virginia pool club can’t bar residents because of color.

Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon‘s arrival in Rome.

The Soviet Union says that 10,000 troops will remain in Cuba.

South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem is unharmed as two planes bomb the presidential palace in Saigon.

F-84 Thunderjets raid North Korean base on Yalu River.

British Commandos raid a German radar station at Bruneval on the French coast.

The Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.

Ralph Nader, consumer advocate.

The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin gives the Nazis the opportunity to suspend personal liberty with increased power.

Elizabeth Taylor, actress (Cleopatra, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

Joanne Woodward, actress (Rachel, Rachel, The Three Faces of Eve).

Glacier Bay National Monument is dedicated in Alaska.

The United States rejects a Soviet peace offer as propaganda.