On this day in history
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1700: Sweden’s 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva.
1914: Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War.
1928: Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow.
1931: Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.
1945: The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.
1947: Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
1962: President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
1967: The U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.
1971: The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.
1974: The United States files an antitrust suit to break up AT&T.
1978: South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.
1981: Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
1992: Fire in England’s Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages.
2008: The Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to its lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the U.S. financial system.
