| On this date in: |
| 1862 | Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. |
| 1927 | the image and voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover were transmitted live from Washington to New York in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television. |
| 1939 | Italy invaded Albania. |
| 1947 | Auto pioneer Henry Ford died at age 83. |
| 1949 | The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific" opened on Broadway. |
| 1953 | The U.N. General Assembly elected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden to be secretary-general. |
| 1969 | The Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. |
| 1976 | China's leadership deposed Deputy Prime Minister Deng Xiaoping. |
| 1990 | Former national security adviser John M. Poindexter was convicted of five counts at his Iran-Contra trial. (A federal appeals court later reversed the convictions.) |
| 1990 | A display of Robert Mapplethorpe photographs opened at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center; the center and its director were indicted on obscenity charges. |
| 2001 | NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took off on a six-month, 286-million-mile journey to the red planet. |
| 2001 | An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots. |
| 2003 | U.S. troops in more than 100 U.S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces. |
| 2009 | Vermont became the fourth state to legalize gay marriage. |
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