On this day in history
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1666: The Great Fire of London is extinguished after two days.
1664: After days of negotiation, the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British, who will rename it New York.
1792: Maximilien Robespierre is elected to the National Convention in France.
1816: Louis XVIII of France dissolves the chamber of deputies, which has been challenging his authority.
1870: Author Victor Hugo returns to Paris from the Isle of Guernsey where he had lived in exile for almost 20 years.
1878: Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Bill Tilghman and Clay Allison, four of the West’s most famous gunmen, meet in Dodge City, Kansas.
1910: Marie Curie demonstrates the transformation of radium ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France.
1958: Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested in an Alabama protest for loitering and fined $14 for refusing to obey police.
1969: Charges are brought against U.S. lieutenant William Calley in the March 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
1972: “Black September,” a Palestinian terrorist group takes 11 Israeli athletes hostage at the Olympic Games in Munich; by midnight all hostages and all but three terrorists are dead.
1977: Voyager 1 space probe launched.
1984: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
