| On this date in: |
| 1533 |
England’s King Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, his second wife. |
| 1759 |
Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in Alloway. |
| 1787 |
Shays’ Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Capt. Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass. |
| 1890 |
The United Mine Workers of America was founded in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 1915 |
The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, inaugurated transcontinental telephone service in the United States. |
| 1959 |
American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707. |
| 1971 |
Charles Manson and three female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. |
| 1988 |
Vice President George Bush and Dan Rather clashed on “The CBS Evening News” as the anchorman attempted to question the Republican presidential candidate about his role in the Iran-Contra affair. |
| 1993 |
A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside agency headquarters in Virginia. (A Pakistani national was later convicted and was executed in 2002.) |
| 2006 |
The Islamic militant group Hamas won a large majority of seats in Palestinian parliamentary elections. |
| 2011 |
Egypt’s revolution began as thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with police during a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule. |
