Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1815

Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning his ''Hundred Days'' rule.

1816

The Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state court decisions.

1856

Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, ``Uncle Tom's Cabin,'' was first published.

1896

U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens in the wake of a revolution.

1899

Martha M. Place of Brooklyn, N.Y., became the first woman to be executed in the electric chair. She was put to death at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter.

1969

John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.

1976

Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup.

1987

The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients.

1990

Namibia became an independent nation, marking the end of 75 years of South African rule.

1993

Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared emergency rule, setting a referendum on whether the people trusted him or the hard-line Congress to govern.

1995

In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin leaked on five separate subway trains.

1996

A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents.

1997

Liggett Group, the maker of Chesterfield cigarettes, settled 22 state lawsuits by agreeing to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive and admitting the industry markets cigarettes to teen-agers.

1999

Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain became the first aviators to fly a hot-air balloon around the world nonstop.

1999

The Yugoslav army, taking advantage of the departure of international monitors from Kosovo, launched a furious offensive against outgunned ethnic Albanian rebels.

2000

Former Black Panther Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, once known as H. Rap Brown, was captured in Alabama; he was wanted in the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy.

1413

England's King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V.

1727

Sir Isaac Newton - physicist, mathematician and astronomer - died in London.