On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1675: Christopher Wren begins work on rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral in London after the Great Fire.
1791: The French royal family is arrested in Varennes.
1887: Britain celebrates the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria.
1915: Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest.
1939: Baseball legend Lou Gehrig is forced to quit baseball because of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis–a disease which wastes muscles.
1945: Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops.
1948: Dr. Peter Goldmark demonstrates his "long-playing” record.
