At present’s Spotlight in Historical past:
On Could 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fireplace and crashed whereas making an attempt to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 folks on board have been killed together with a crewman on the bottom.
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In 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed the Chinese language Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese language immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years (Arthur had opposed an earlier model with a 20-year ban).
In 1910, Britain’s Edwardian period ended with the dying of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.
In 1935, the Works Progress Administration started working beneath an government order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1941, Josef Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership, changing Vyacheslav (VEE’-cheh-slav) M. Molotov. Comic Bob Hope did his first USO present earlier than an viewers of servicemen as he broadcast his radio program from March Subject in Riverside, California.
In 1942, throughout World Battle II, some 15,000 American and Filipino troops on Corregidor island surrendered to Japanese forces.
In 1954, medical scholar Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile throughout a observe meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.
In 1994, former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones filed swimsuit in opposition to President Invoice Clinton, alleging he’d sexually harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a settlement with Clinton in November 1998.)
In 2004, President George W. Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American troopers, calling it “a stain on our nation’s honor”; he rejected requires Protection Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation.
In 2006, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, the final American survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, died in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, at age 99.
In 2010, a computerized promote order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Road, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a lack of almost 1,000 factors in lower than half an hour.
In 2012, Vice President Joe Biden advised NBC’s “Meet the Press” he was “completely comfy” with homosexual {couples} who marry getting the identical civil rights and liberties as heterosexual {couples}.
In 2013, kidnap-rape victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went lacking individually a couple of decade earlier whereas of their teenagers or early 20s, have been rescued from a home simply south of downtown Cleveland. (Their captor, Ariel Castro, hanged himself in jail in September 2013 firstly of a life sentence plus 1,000 years.)
In 2017, a Nigerian navy official mentioned 83 Chibok (chih-BAWK’) schoolgirls had been launched greater than three years after they have been kidnapped from their boarding college by Boko Haram (BOH’-koh hah-RAHM’) extremists.
In 2020, New York Metropolis started shutting down its subway system in a single day to permit for extra cleansing and disinfecting of vehicles and stations amid the pandemic. President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 job pressure; he mentioned the pressure would shift its focus towards rebooting the economic system and growing a vaccine.
In 2021, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 48-page elections invoice that Republicans mentioned would guard in opposition to fraud and vote harvesting; Democrats and voting rights advocates mentioned it was an try to make it more durable for some folks to vote.