On this day in history
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Source: Historynet.com
1968: US athletes Tommi Smith and John Carlos suspended by US Olympic Committee for giving "black power” salute while receiving their medals at the Olympic Games in Mexico City.
1967: A Russian unmanned spacecraft makes the first landing on the surface of Venus.
1921: Russian Soviets grant Crimean independence.
1910: M. Baudry is the first to fly a dirigible across the English Channel from La Motte-Breil to Wormwood Scrubbs.
1883: The weather station at the top of Ben Nevis, Scotland, the highest mountain in Britain, is declared open.
1867: The rules for American football are formulated at meeting in New York among delegates from Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton and Yale universities.
1648: The "shoemakers of Boston" – the first labor organization in what would become the United States – was authorized by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
