On this day in history

1154: William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily.
1790: As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments.
1815: Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France.
1848: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London.
1871: France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles.
1901: Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking.
1917: President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships.
1924: U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations.
1933: Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
1936: Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders.
1951: The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms.
1965: Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X.
1968: Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa.
1970: Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children.
1972: Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks.
1973: A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate.
1993: A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation.

Source: HistoryNet.com