| On this date in: |
| 1789 |
Thomas Jefferson was appointed America’s first secretary of state and John Jay the first chief justice. |
| 1888 |
Poet T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1898 |
Composer George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York. |
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| 1914 |
The Federal Trade Commission was established. |
| 1950 |
United Nations troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans. |
| 1957 |
The musical “West Side Story” opened on Broadway. |
| 1969 |
The album “Abbey Road” by the Beatles was released. |
| 1986 |
William H. Rehnquist was sworn in as the 16th chief justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as an associate justice. |
| 2000 |
Slobodan Milosevic conceded that his challenger, Vojislav Kostunica, had finished first in Yugoslavia’s presidential election. Milosevic declared a runoff, a move that prompted mass protests leading to his ouster. |
| 2005 |
Army Pfc. Lynndie England was convicted by a military jury on six counts stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. |
| 2005 |
International weapons inspectors announced the Irish Republican Army’s full disarmament. |
| 2007 |
Myanmar began a violent crackdown on protests, beating and dragging away dozens of monks. |
