Today in History

Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson.

The United States discloses biological weapons tests in Texas in 1966.

Congo President Marien Ngouabi is killed by a suicide commando.

South Vietnam abandons most of the Central Highlands to North Vietnamese forces.

U.S. helicopters airlift 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos.

The U.S. Postal Service is paralyzed by the first postal strike.

President Richard M. Nixon authorizes Operation Menue, the ‘secret’ bombing of Cambodia.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first man to spacewalk when he exits his Voskhod 2 space capsule while in orbit around the Earth.

The Braves baseball team announces that they are moving from Boston to Milwaukee.

Nationalist troops land on the mainland of China and capture Communist-held Sungmen.

The Russians reach the Romanian border.

American forces take Gafsa in Tunisia.

The third military draft begins in the United States.

Georgia finally ratifies the Bill of Rights, 150 years after the birth of the federal government. Connecticut and Massachusetts, the only other states to hold out, also ratify the Bill of Rights in this year.