On this day :
2002 Divers recover USS Monitor turret, 1779 DeLancey and Hull battle for the Bronx, 1914 First electric traffic signal installed, 1864 Union scores a victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay, 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed, 1998 Mother charged with smothering her eight children, 1948 Earthquake causes deadly landslides in Ecuador, 1858 First transatlantic telegraph cable completed, 1962 Marilyn Monroe is found dead, 1981 Reagan fires 11359 airtraffic controllers, 1983 Risky Business debuts launches Cruise to stardom, 1850 Guy de Maupassants birthday, 1957 American Bandstand goes national, 1953 Texas Ranger Ira Aten dies, 1861 Lincoln imposes first federal income tax, 1976 NBA merges with ABA, 1964 Navy flies retaliatory strikes against North Vietnam, 1974 Congress cuts military aid to South Vietnam, 1914 German assault on Liege begins first battle of World War I, 1944 Hundreds of Jews are freed from forced labor in Warsaw,
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