Today in History

President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft registration for males 18 years of age.

North and South Vietnam are officially reunified.

The U.S. launches Operation Buffalo in Vietnam.

President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.

Novelist Ernest Hemingway commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.

American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world.

Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist.

Robert Sarnoff, president of NBC.

Barry Gray, radio talk show host.

Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice.

Tyrone Guthrie, English theater director.

Andre Kertesz, photographer.

Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounds President James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C.

Hermann Hesse, German novelist and poet.