1945 Aircraft squadron lost in the Bermuda Triangle At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg… read more »

1776

Phi Beta Kappa is founded while army flounders »

1970

Last segment of the Dan Ryan Expressway opens in Chicago »

1839

George Custer born »

1978

USSR and Afghanistan sign “friendship treaty” »

1873

The Boston Belfry Murderer kills his first victim »

DISASTER

1876

Hundreds die in Brooklyn theater fire »

1933

Prohibition ends »

1941

Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez is published »

2000

O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack released »

1871

Rodeo star Bill Pickett born in Texas »

1782

Van Buren is born »

SPORTS

2002

Roone Arledge dies »

1964

Army Captain awarded first Medal of Honor for action in Vietnam »

1970

North Vietnam announces it will not be intimidated by U.S. bombing »

1915

Siege of British-occupied Kut, Mesopotamia begins »

1941

American carrier Lexington heads to Midway »