| On this date in: |
| 1863 |
The International Red Cross was founded in Geneva. |
| 1865 |
Columbia, S.C., burned as the Confederates evacuated and Union forces moved in. |
| 1904 |
Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” had its world premiere at La Scala in Milan, Italy. |
| 1933 |
Newsweek magazine was first published. |
| 1947 |
The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union. |
| 1972 |
President Richard M. Nixon departed on a historic trip to China. |
| 1992 |
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison. |
| 1995 |
Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings that also wounded 19 people. |
| 1996 |
World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue,” winning a six-game match in Philadelphia. |
| 2002 |
The new Transportation Security Administration took over supervision of aviation security from the airline industry and the Federal Aviation Administration. |
| 2005 |
President George W. Bush named John Negroponte to be the first national intelligence director. |
| 2008 |
Kosovo declared itself a nation in defiance of Serbia and Russia. |
| 2009 |
President Barack Obama signed a $757 billion economic stimulus package into law.. |
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