TODAY IN HISTORY PART II

• 1871 Stanley begins search for Livingstone

• American Revolution

• 1778 Massacre at Hancock’s Bridge

• Automotive

• 1960 Formula One champ Ayrton Senna born

• Civil War

• 1863 Edwin V. Sumner dies

• Cold War

• 1980 Carter tells U.S. athletes of Olympic boycott

• Crime

• 1963 Alcatraz closes its doors

• Disaster

• 1932 Series of tornadoes hits Southeast U.S.

• General Interest

• 1804 Napoleonic Code approved in France
• 1918 Second Battle of the Somme begins
• 1960 Massacre in Sharpeville
• 1965 Selma to Montgomery march begins

• Hollywood

• 1980 Famous Dallas cliffhanger airs

• Literary

• 1678 Reward offered for identity of pamphlet author

• Music

• 1952 The Moondog Coronation Ball is history’s first rock concert

• Old West

• 1882 “Broncho Billy” Anderson born

• Presidential

• 1980 Carter announces Olympic boycott

• Sports

• 1980 Ronaldinho is born

• Vietnam War

• 1967 North Vietnam rejects Johnson overture
• 1972 Khmer Rouge shell Phnom Penh

• World War I

• 1918 Germany begins major offensive on the Western Front

• World War II

• 1943 Another plot to kill Hitler foiled