Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1848

The New York Herald reported the discovery of gold in California.

1929

The comedy program ''Amos 'n' Andy,'' starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made its network radio debut on NBC.

1934

A plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.

1942

About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering about 50 percent casualties.

1955

Severe flooding in the Northeast caused by the remnants of Hurricane Diane claimed some 200 lives.

1960

A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.

1976

President Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Kansas City.

1993

Mattel and Fisher Price toys merge

1994

President Clinton abruptly halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.

1995

Mike Tyson returns to the boxing ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds

1996

A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes.

2009

U.S. Army officer William Calley publicly apologizes for the mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai

2010

Jakarta launches female train carriages in an effort to reduce incidents of public sexual harassment

2010

In Sichuan, China, massive flooding sweeps two passenger train carriages into the river

2011

A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, possibly Mars, the head of king Erik XIV's fleet which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1564

2013

New Zealand's first same-sex marriages take place since the country's parliament passed the Marriage Equality Bill in April

2013

The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.

2014

Community Health Systems Inc., a private hospital company, revealed Social Security numbers and other personal data were stolen for 4.5 million patients in April and June; the company believes the attack is the work of Chinese hackers

2015

The U.S. Navy announces that it will allow women to undergo its intensive 6-month SEAL training; female candidates who pass the course will be able to serve on SEAL teams

2017

Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.

1974

U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was shot and killed at the American embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, during a protest by Greek Cypriots.

1977

Comedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86.

2017

Dick Gregory, American comedian, author and black activist (b. 1932)

2019

Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (b. 1948)