On this day :

1985 Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS, 1780 Benedict accomplice hanged, 1948 Checkered flag waves at first postwar US road race in Watkins Glen New York, 1864 Battle of Saltville, 1958 The Cold War comes to Africa as Guinea gains its independence, 2006 Gunman kills five students at Amish school, 1963 Hurricane devastates Haiti, 1780 British spy executed in Arnold affair, 1836 Darwin returns to England, 1944 Warsaw Uprising ends, 1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in, 1985 Rock Hudson dies of AIDS, 1879 Wallace Stevens is born, 1971 Rod Stewart earns his first 1 hit with Maggie May, 1835 First shots of the Texas Revolution fired in the Battle of Gonzales, 1919 Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, 1968 Gibson strikes out 17 in World Series, 1966 Soviets report that Russian military personnel have come under fire, 1967 Aerial offensive against North Vietnam continues, 1919 US President Woodrow Wilson suffers massive stroke, 1941 Operation Typhoon is launched,