Today in History

U.S. Supreme Court upholds a law making statutory rape a crime for men but not women.

The United States calls a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris.

Mafia boss Carlo Gambino is arrested for plotting to steal $3 million.

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. calls the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.

Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic, although it is still within the British Commonwealth.

U.S. paratroopers descend from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea.

The Japanese occupy the Anadaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The Reichstag gives Adolf Hitler the power to rule by decree.

Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run the mile in less than four minutes.

Captain Hawthorne Gray sets a new balloon record soaring to 28,510 feet.

Arthur G. Hamilton sets a new parachute record, safely jumping 24,400 feet.

Great Britain denounces the United States because of its delay in joining the League of Nations.

Austrian Emperor Charles I makes a peace proposal to French President Poincare.

Werner von Braun, German-born rocket pioneer.

Akira Kurosawa, film director (Rashomon, The Seven Samurai).