Today in History

The “Birmingham Six,” imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, are set free after a court agrees that the police fabricated evidence.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.

An Israeli force of 22,000 invades south Lebanon, hitting the PLO bases.

John F. Kennedy‘s body is moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one in Arlington Cemetery.

A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

The Viet Minh launch an assault against the French Colonial Forces at Dien Bien Phu.

U.N. forces recapture Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.

The United States signs a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.

The Germans reoccupy Kharkov in the Soviet Union.

The Nazis dissolve the republic of Czechoslovakia.

Adolf Hitler tells a crowd of 300,000 that Germany’s only judge is God and itself.

Eugene Cernan, American astronaut, the last man on the moon.

President Warren G. Harding becomes the first U.S. President to file an income tax report.

An all-Russian Congress of Soviets ratifies a peace treaty with the Central Powers.

The British Navy sinks the German battleship Dresden off the Chilean coast.