Today in History

Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi are dispersed by tear gas.

Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and is succeeded by Maxwell Taylor.

The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on the Yalu River, Korea.

Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposes cease-fire discussions in the Korean War.

In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploiesti, Romania.

James Levine, pianist and conductor.

Wilma Rudolph, American athlete.

Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.

Bob Fosse, choreographer and director.

Alan M. Turing, English mathematician and pioneer of computer theory.

Jean Anouilh, French playwright.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renew the Triple Alliance for a 12-year duration.

Alfred Kinsey, zoologist and sociologist.

Former general and president Ulysses S. Grant dies at the age of 63.

A Chinese Army defeats the French at Bac Le, Indochina.

Irvin S. Cobb, U.S. writer, actor, and editor.

Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory.

Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brashear City in Louisiana.

A bloody insurrection of workers erupts in Paris.

Austrian forces defeat the Prussians at Landshut, Germany.

British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at Krefeld in Germany.

Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.

William Penn signs a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.