Today in History____________

Today in History____________

History

1813 Jane Austin publishes Pride and Prejudice.

1861 Kansas is admitted into the Union as the 34th state.

1865 William Quantrill and his Confederate raiders attack Danville, Kentucky.

1918 The Supreme Allied Council meets at Versailles.

1926 Violette Neatley Anderson becomes the first African- American woman admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

1929 The Seeing Eye, America’s first school for training dogs to guide the blind, founded in Nashville, Tennessee.

1931 Winston Churchill resigns as Stanley Baldwin’s aide.

1942 German and Italian troops take Benghazi in North Africa.

1944 The world’s greatest warship, Missouri, is launched.

1950 Riots break out in Johannesburg, South Africa, over the policy of Apartheid.

1967 Thirty-seven civilians are killed by a U.S. helicopter attack in Vietnam.

1979 President Jimmy Carter commutes the sentence of Patty Hearst.

1984 President Ronald Reagan announces that he will run for a second term.

1984 The Soviets issue a formal complaint against alleged U.S. arms treaty violations.

1991 Iraqi forces attack into Saudi Arabian town of Kafji, but are turned back by Coalition forces.

Born

1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist (The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason).

1843 William McKinley, 25th President of the United States.

1880 W.C. Fields, comedian and actor (David Copperfield, My Little Chickadee).