On this day :

1925 Monkey Trial begins, 1777 British General Richard Prescott captured in Rhode Island, 1962 US Patent issued for threepoint seatbelt, 1863 Siege on Battery Wagner begins, 1990 Gorbachev reelected as head of Communist Party, 1992 The Exxon Valdez captains conviction is overturned, 1887 Dam collapses in Switzerland kills 70, 1943 Allies land on Sicily, 1985 The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, 1995 Hugh Grant appears on Tonight Show after Hollywood arrest, 1931 Alice Munro is born, 1941 Jazz great Jelly Roll Morton dies, 1889 Buckskin Frank Leslie murders a prostitute, 1850 Millard Fillmore sworn in as president, 1999 US women win World Cup, 1965 MiGs shot down as bombing of North Vietnam continues, 1967 Heavy fighting continues near An Loc and the Central Highlands, 1917 German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg resigns, 1940 The Battle of Britain begins,