Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1630

The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

1810

Mexicans began their revolt against Spanish rule.

1893

Hundreds of thousands of settlers swarmed onto a section of land in Oklahoma known as the ''Cherokee Strip.''

1919

The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.

1940

President Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act, which set up the first peacetime military draft in U.S. history.

1966

The Metropolitan Opera opened its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

1972

''The Bob Newhart Show'' premiered on CBS.

1974

President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft-evaders.

1974

President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders.

1982

The massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Lebanese Christian militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps.

1987

Two dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000.

1638

France's King Louis XIV was born.

1893

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle.

1977

Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at age 53.

1996

Former national security adviser McGeorge Bundy died in Boston at age 77.