Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1776

British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War.

1870

The Massachusetts Legislature authorized the incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary. It later became Wellesley College.

1905

Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York.

1906

President Theodore Roosevelt used the term ''muckrake'' in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington, D.C.

1910

The Camp Fire Girls organization was formed. It was formally presented to the public exactly two years later.

1941

The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington, D.C.

1942

Gen. Douglas MacArthur arrived in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.

1950

Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced they had created a new radioactive element, which they named ''californium.''

1966

A U.S. midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb which had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain.

1969

Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel.

1999

A panel of medical experts concluded that marijuana has medical benefits for people suffering from cancer and AIDS.

1999

The International Olympic Committee expelled six of its members in the wake of a bribery scandal, but backed president Juan Antonio Samaranch.

2000

Smith & Wesson signed an unprecedented agreement with the Clinton administrationto, among other things, include safety locks with all of its handguns to makethem more childproof. In return, the agreement called for federal, state andcity lawsuits against

1993

Helen Hayes, the ''first lady of the American theater,'' died in Nyack, N.Y., at age 92.