Today In History

1890: Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France.

1914: Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.

1967: Fire swept the USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin, killing 134 servicemen.

1975: President Ford became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland as he paid tribute to the camp’s victims.

1981: Britain’s Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

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