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1947: United Nations resolution for the partition of Palestine.On this day in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution (not implemented) calling for the partition of Palestine into two separate states—an Arab and a Jewish one—that would retain an economic union.More events on this day2001:George Harrison, formerly of the Beatles, died of cancer at the home of a friend in Los Angeles. |
1997:In a ceremony that was broadcast around the world by satellite, some 28,000 couples gathered at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., for a “wedding” conducted by Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church. |
1963:U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
1929:American pioneer aviator Richard E. Byrd flew over the South Pole. |
1864:Colonel John M. Chivington led a controversial surprise attack, known as the Sand Creek Massacre, on a surrendered, partially disarmed Cheyenne Indian camp in southeastern Colorado Territory. |
1850:Prussia and Austria signed the Punctation of Olmütz, an agreement regulating the two powers' relations. |
1832:American author Louisa May Alcott, known for her children's books, especially Little Women, was born. |
1830:A Polish secret society of infantry cadets staged an uprising in Warsaw, beginning the November Insurrection. |
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