Today in History

Margaret Thatcher wins her third consecutive term as Prime Minister.

Israel and Syria accept a U. N. cease-fire.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.

U.S. carrier-based planes attack Japanese airfields on Guam , Rota, Saipan and Tinian islands, preparing for the invasion of Saipan.

The Italian island of Pantelleria surrenders after a heavy air bombardment.

The Italian Air Force bombs the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.

The Disarmament Conference in Geneva ends in failure.

Athol Fugard, South African playwright, director and actor (The Blood Knot, “Master Harold” . . . and the Boys).

William Beebe, of the New York Zoological Society, dives to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda, in a diving chamber called a bathysphere.

Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, receives the first Distinguished Flying Cross ever awarded, for his solo trans-Atlantic flight.

William Styron, American novelist (The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice).

British troops take Cameroon in Africa.

Vince Lombardi, American football coach.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanic explorer, filmmaker, author and inventor of the aqualung.

King Alexander and Queen Draga of Belgrade are assassinated by members of the Serbia army.