Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1797

Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented a washing machine.

1834

The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.

1854

Britain and France declared war on Russia during the Crimean War.

1898

The Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen, and therefore could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.

1930

The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

1939

The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.

1942

British naval forces raided the Nazi occupied French port of St. Nazaire during World War II.

1979

America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

1999

The Baltimore Orioles beat a Cuban all-star team 3-2 in Havana.

2000

In a unanimous ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court sharply curtailed police power to rely on tips to stop and search people.

1941

Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf died in Lewes, England.

1943

Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, Calif.

1969

The 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, died in Washington at age 78.

1987

Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music,'' died in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82.