Today in History

The U.S. Senate votes against the nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster for Surgeon General.

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

Three civil rights workers disappear in Meridian, Mississippi.

France announces it will withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.

A federal judge allows Little Rock, Arkansas to delay school integration.

Dr. Peter Goldmark demonstrates his “long-playing” record.

Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops.

German General Erwin Rommel captures the port city of Tobruk in North Africa.

Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis–a disease which wastes muscles.

Judith Raskin, soprano.

Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.

Judy Holliday, actress.

Germans scuttle their own fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland.

Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.

Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Memories of Catholic Girlhood, The Group).

Albert Hirschfeld, illustrator.

Mulai Hafid again proclaims himself the true sultan of Morocco.

Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and existentialist.

Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian.

Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.

Rockwell Kent, artist, book illustrator.

Arnold Lucius Gesell, psychologist and pediatrician.

In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fail to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing.

Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the Chickahominy Creek.

Henry Ossawa Tanner, African-American painter.

C. H. McCormick patents the first practical reaper.

The French royal family is arrested in Varennes.

William Sydney Smith, British seaman during the Napoleonic Wars.

Christopher Wren begins work on rebuilding St. Paul’s Cathedral in London after the Great Fire.

The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English.