On this day :

1980 Millions tune in to find out who shot JR, 1776 Washington orders General Lee to New Jersey, 1927 Holland Tunnel appears on the cover of Time, 1861 Judah Benjamin becomes Confederate secretary of war, 1975 Congressional report charges US involvement in assassination plots, 1986 Oliver North starts feeding documents into the shredding machine, 1916 Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea, 1783 Men fly over Paris, 1877 Edisons first great invention, 1985 Israeli spy arrested in United States, 1976 Rocky premieres, 1694 Voltaires birthday, 1934 Ella Fitzgerald wins Amateur Night at Harlems Apollo Theater, 1860 Tom Horn is born in Missouri, 1864 Lincoln allegedly writes to mother of Civil War casualties, 1931 USC ends Notre Dame winning streak, 1967 Westmoreland tells media the communists are losing, 1970 US force raids Son Tay prison camp, 1916 Emperor Franz Josef of Austria dies, 1941 Nazi chief architect requests POWs to labor for a new Berlin,