Today in History

The U.S. House of Representatives votes to limit the use of combat troops in Nicaragua.

President Richard Nixon vetoes a Senate ban on the Cambodia bombing.

Henry Cabot Lodge is appointed U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam.

Alice McDermott, writer (That Night, At Weddings and Wakes).

The UN Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea.

Allied forces capture the port city of Cherbourg, France.

The Allied convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk and Archangel.

Scientists at Bell Laboratories in New York reveal a system for transmitting television pictures.

Bob Keeshan, American television actor, best known as “Captain Kangaroo.”

Frank O’Hara, American poet.

Democrats offer Mrs. Leroy Springs the vice presidential nomination, the first woman considered for the job.

Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade.

I.A.L. Diamond, screenwriter.

Two German pilots are saved by parachutes for the first time.

Willie Mosconi, professional billiards player.

The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinies.

Antoinette Perry, actress and director, namesake of the “Tony” Awards.

Helen Keller, American educator.

Paul Laurence Dunbar, African-American poet and writer.

The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan.

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born American anarchist, feminist and birth control advocate.

General William Sherman is repulsed by Confederates at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.

Confederates break through the Union lines at the Battle of Gaines’ Mill–the third engagement of the Seven Days’ campaign.

Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black women in Canterbury, Conn.

English King George II defeats the French at Dettingen, Bavaria.

Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718).

Louis XII, King of France (1498-1515).