What Happened On This Day In History?

1553

Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen.

1848

A pioneer women's rights convention called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

1870

The Franco-Prussian war began.

1941

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.

1943

Allied air forces raided Rome during World War II.

1969

Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ''Buzz'' Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.

1975

The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated.

1979

The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.

1980

The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1984

U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.

1985

Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died the following year when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff.)

1986

Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass.

1989

A United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; 184 survived.

1990

Baseball's all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.

1993

President Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity.