On this day :

1933 Golden Gate Bridge is born, 1781 Benedict Arnold captures and destroys Richmond, 1933 Construction begins on Golden Gate Bridge, 1861 Star of the West leaves for Fort Sumter, 1957 Eisenhower proposes new Middle East policy, 1970 The United Mine Workers Killings, 1982 Landslides kill 33 in California, 1643 First divorce in the colonies, 1895 Dreyfus Affair in France, 1945 Kamikaze pilots get first order, 1968 Prague Spring begins in Czechoslovakia, 1976 Pol Pot renames Cambodia, 1994 Former Speaker Thomas P Tip ONeill dies, 1998 Sonny Bono killed in skiing accident, 1825 Alexandre Dumas pere fights a duel, 1980 The Sugarhill Gangs Rappers Delight becomes hiphops first Top 40 hit, 1846 House resolves to stop sharing Oregon, 1949 Truman delivers his Fair Deal speech, 1972 Nixon launches the space shuttle program, 1920 New York Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth, 1967 Amphibious operations conducted in the Mekong Delta, 1969 Lodge succeeds Harriman as chief negotiator, 1916 First conscription bill is introduced in British parliament, 1945 Soviets recognize proSoviet Polish Provisional Government,