On this day :

1890 US Army massacres Indians at Wounded Knee, 1778 British capture Savannah Georgia, 1989 Actor Christian Slater arrested for drunk driving, 1862 Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, 1956 United States prepares new strategic plan for Middle East, 1985 The Railway Rapist commits his first murder, 1876 Bridge collapses in Ohio, 1170 The making of an English martyr, 1845 Texas enters the Union, 1940 Worst air raid on London, 1947 Cheers star Ted Danson born, 1916 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published, 1957 Pat Boone earns second 1 hit with April Love, 1890 US Army massacres Sioux at Wounded Knee, 1808 Andrew Johnson is born, 1878 Cuban professional baseball league holds first game, 1962 Saigon announces success of strategic hamlet program, 1966 Johnson Administration responds to Harrison Salisburys charges, 1915 French government gives land for British war cemeteries, 1940 Germans raid London,