Today in History

Millions of Americans watch former football player O.J. Simpson–facing murder charges–drive his Ford Bronco through Los Angeles, followed by police.

Five men are arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C.

North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.

27 B-52s hit Viet Cong outposts, but lose two planes in South Vietnam.

The U.S. Supreme Court bans the required reading of the Lord’s prayer and Bible in public schools.

Soviet tanks fight thousands of Berlin workers rioting against the East German government.

Surgeon Richard Lawler performs the first kidney transplant operation in Chicago.

French troops land on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.

Rod Padgett, poet.

The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol.

British authorities in China arrest Indochinese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill becomes law, placing the highest tariff on imports to the United States.

Spain threatens to quit the League of Nations if Germany is allowed to join.