Today in History

Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Muslims vote for Bosnian independence.

The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter.”

A grand jury indicts seven of President Nixon‘s aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.

Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is replaced by Clark Clifford.

1,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.

The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.

Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.

Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.

Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.

The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.

Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback

Howard Nemerov, writer, another Pulitzer Prize recipient.