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1939: Premiere of Gone with the Wind.Starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, the film Gone with the Wind—a romantic tale of the American South during the Civil War adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell—premiered this day in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1939.More events on this day1997:The U.S. Department of Defense ordered that all 1.4 million Americans in its service be inoculated against anthrax, a potential weapon of biological warfare. |
1997:Janet Rosenberg Jagan was elected president of Guyana, becoming the first elected female president in South America and the first white president of Guyana. |
1989:Antigovernment demonstrations erupted in Timi?oara, Romania, beginning the revolution that toppled the communist leader Nicolae Ceau?escu from power a few days afterward. |
1948:Former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss was indicted on two charges of perjury for lying about his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. |
1892:J. Paul Getty, the American oil billionaire, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
1890:The Teton Dakota Indian chief Sitting Bull was killed by U.S. troops on the Grand River in South Dakota. |
1791:The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution—the Bill of Rights, which is a collection of mutually reinforcing guarantees of individual rights and limitations on federal and state governments—were adopted as a single unit. |
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